Gun Presentation And Tactics In Personal Defense Situations: A Study In Compare And Contrast
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 11 months ago
SCHERTZ, Texas – Teachers and schoolmates at Weiderstein Elementary School are heartbroken after the loss of 6-year old Kameron Prescott.
First-grade teacher Shanda Ince was with Kameron on Thursday morning just hours before the shooting claimed his life.
“Yesterday, we had our class party, our holiday celebration. His parents were there. We enjoyed food with one another,” Ince said.
Kameron was fatally shot by Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputies’ gunfire during the pursuit of felon Amanda Jones. Investigators said Jones broke into the mobile home where the child and other relatives were.
Authorities said Jones verbally threatened deputies and was holding something in her hands they believe was a weapon as she attempted to escape from the home. Deputies opened fire and a bullet entered the home, killing the first grader.
“All I can think about right now is what could I have done differently, had it not been a half day. I know there’s nothing no one could have done differently,” Ince said.
Nothing anyone could have done differently. Then there is this other news from Texas.
HOUSTON – A Oak Forest family is counting its blessings after a mother scared an intruder out of their house at gunpoint.
The mother’s quick thinking saved her and her child from danger.
The family does not want to be identified, but wanted to share the story in hope that awareness can help in similar situations.
The mother was at home with the family’s 3-month-old daughter Thursday night. Her husband was out of town working, but was coming home Friday to celebrate the first Christmas with their daughter.
After tossing and turning in bed for a while, the mother was not able to fall asleep and went to the living room around 11:30 p.m.
About an hour later, she heard the home alarm beep and her back door open.
Her instinct kicked in.
“I froze for a second and then I realized I needed to spring into action, I mean, I had my baby in the house. I was alone. My husband was away on business, so I had to take care of things,” she said.
She grabbed a gun and went towards the back door, where she found a man standing in her kitchen.
She yelled at the man while pointing the gun at him, and her dog ran towards him, scaring him out of the back door.
She locked the door and called 911.
Three Houston Police Department units were on scene within minutes.
Neighbors in the area reported seeing a suspicious person on their video camera surveillance systems Thursday night and Friday morning.
We blurred the man’s face because he has not been charged with a crime that our sister station in Houston, KPRC, is aware of.
The mother credits her husband’s training for the way she handled the situation.
“I am just glad that I had that training and that knowledge of what to do in that moment with the gun,” she said.
Hmm … within minutes. The police are good for response within minutes. Note that she didn’t ever discharge the firearm, which is good because the person was running away. She didn’t have all of that super secret Ninja warrior stress management special ops special forces law enforcement simulator experience and training. But she made the right decisions nonetheless.
And it happens every day in America. Every day. People without all of that super secret Ninjar warrior … [blah blah] … training do what they’re supposed to do and live to tell about it. And cops panic like ignorant goobers every day in America and shoot up people and places, all the while telling America that they need to cower and wait on those cops with the super secret Ninja warrior stress management [blah blah] training.
I grow so weary of the claptrap.
On December 26, 2017 at 5:39 pm, Ed said:
I always liked the aikido maxim of entering… a simple active step forward into the problem scenario sets in motion a lot of things, like confident decision-making, the perception of defensive action by the threat, and more. That’s not about guns, but it is about advancing to meet the threat. The timing of that advance is critical; the longer the delay, the less valuable. And vice versa.
On December 27, 2017 at 4:34 pm, Ned said:
Of course the LEO’s “saw something” in the perp’s hand that looked like a gun and so they had to ventilate the house with gunfire. Turns out it was an 8″ piece of pipe. I suppose it’s just luck they didn’t kill everyone in the trailer.
I hate it when regular folks shooting a something kill someone behind the target. But it’s OK when police do it, all because they made it home safely.
On December 28, 2017 at 11:59 am, Archer said:
Another instance of the passive voice when describing police actions.
Phrased this way, neither the deputies nor the suspect are responsible; it’s all the bullet’s fault. Darn those bullets!
Compare to the active voice used in the second story.
All clear actions by the homeowner. No inanimate objects misbehaving there! Her gun and bullets are obviously much better trained than the officers’; she didn’t give the command to fire, and so it didn’t.
This is why I don’t hang out with cops. Based on reporting, you never know when a cop’s bullets might wake up and decide to go off and kill someone. [/snark]