Incident Response Plan for a Terrorism Event

I wanna talk about responding to a terrorism event. If you find yourself in the midst of a spree killing that's motivated by political issues. It's obviously terrorism. Guess what? You're not gonna know about it. When someone pulls out a gun, when a bomb goes off, when some spree killing attack violent event happens in the public space. The last thing you're probably gonna worry about is what the motivations of the person who's trying to kill you and everyone else in the environment are. Now in the aftermath and now in the preparation, you may think that the value of whether or not it's a terrorism event is somehow a factor in what you're gonna do to prepare, and I'm here to tell you that it really isn't. There's no difference in yourself defense preparation. There's no difference in your family safety or security preparation. The things that you should be thinking about in regard to what's gonna happen in that moment, regardless of whether it's the lone crazed gunman, whether it's a politically motivated event, whether it's four guys that grew up in your hometown or four guys from the other side of the world, really doesn't matter. You're still gonna do the same things. You're gonna to go through all the steps that we've talked about in our School Attacker Response Course. You're gonna go through the things that we've talked about in our active Shooter DVD. You're gonna go through the things that we talked about in the Spree Killer Video Clips that you can see at personaldefensenetwork.com. You're going to evade. If you can get away. You're gonna barricade. You're gonna make it harder for the bad guy to get to you if you are stuck in one place and you're gonna respond as appropriate, if necessary. If you're carrying a firearm and you can use that to defend yourself when you need to, great. If you don't have a firearm, you can still do something, and all those somethings are covered in a great deal of the material we provide at Personal Defense Network. Today however, in your preparation, the one thing that changes when you start thinking about terrorism versus other kinds of events that may be more random is where you go. Where do you spend your time? Who do you spend your time around? And where you especially gonna think about vacationing and going on those tourism trips. We know that there are places in the world that are targeted at a higher rate for terrorist events as time goes by. We may say that at one time, it's the UK and another time it's France. Another time it's gonna be Southeast Asia. Another time it might be right here in New York, right here in Los Angeles, right here anywhere in the United States, Las Vegas maybe, The Mall of America in Minneapolis. While we can't say with any kind of certainty where the next terrorist event is gonna happen, we can look around the world. We can be aware of global politics. We can look at the advisories that are put out by the U.S. State Department and decide where it makes sense for us to be and where we may be better off waiting and far as a tourist issue, as far as the vacation issue, and we can go there some other time when it's a little safer. When you're in the event it doesn't matter if it's terrorism, it doesn't matter if it's a crazy lunatic with a gun or with a knife. All that matter's that you protect yourself and you protect your family. But when you're thinking about where you're gonna spend your time, keeping up to date on global politics, keeping up to date on the travel advisories issued by the State Department are the best ways that you can avoid being caught up in a political act of violence targeted at civilians in order to terrorize the population of that area or the area where we're from, here the United States of America.