03-23-2018, 01:20 PM
(03-21-2018, 04:52 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-21-2018, 02:59 PM)David Horn Wrote: The point I was making is simple. Responding to a life-threatening asymmetrical threat the first time is an unknown for everyone. 99% of all such threats are first time events, so the only alternative to winging it is training. Now training to overcome the adrenaline rush while responding, and an active shooter response requires both precision and speed, is exactly the training that the military offers: long term and relentless. Law enforcement tends to grab the already trained ex-military types for SWAT for that very reason.
So no; I don't know how you would react. Neither do you. FWIW, the same applies to me.
The point that I've been making is the shooter wasn't/most likely isn't a highly trained professional (upper 1%) either. The shooter, like most unprofessional shooters, would most likely be in the same percentage (the so-called 99%) as us (you and me) and would be susceptible to pain, fear, surprise and so on just like everyone else who hasn't been involved in a shootout with others or a situation where someone is shooting at them.
The shooter may very well be suicidal and simply doesn't care if he (almost always a 'he') survives. In any case, he has had the time to psyche himself up for the task, and, nominally, is in charge of the event. Responders have no time to do anything but react or to prepare mentally. That's part of the asymmetry.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.