by Tom Givens | Chief Firearms Instructor SAFTD
In certain types of violent crime it is not uncommon for the Bad Guy to remove the victim from one place to another, usually at gunpoint. Typically, the victim is accosted in a relatively public place, like a shopping mall parking lot, and is then forced to submit and go to a more remote and more private location. That second location is called “the second crime scene” and is usually a pretty gruesome sight.
Unlike in much of the world, abductions in the US are rarely ransom kidnaps but rather are forays to obtain rape/torture/murder victims. The Bad Guy selected the second crime scene specifically because it is remote, or private, and will conceal his activity over a period of time. In business hold-ups, victims are often removed from the front of the store to a back stock-room or restroom, where they can be raped and murdered out of sight. You must not let the violent criminal remove all your options! Once you are face down on the stock-room floor, or tied hand and foot, there is little you can do. You must act before things reach that point.
Recently in Georgia, an armed citizen was able to turn the tables on someone who was almost certainly going to kill the citizen and a store clerk. Here is part of the story from a local news source:
“Officials say the suspect walked into the store waving a gun in the air and forced a cashier and Ellis (armed citizen) at gunpoint towards a break room. At that point, Ellis pulled out a concealed weapon and shot the suspect once in the chest.”
“He escorted a customer who was trying to leave the store and a cashier toward a break room. The cashier went in first and the customer went in behind her, and the individual had the gun on the customer and the customer had a pistol concealed in a holster,” Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said. “And when the customer got to the door, he turned around and shot the individual.”
Of course, this was ruled a justifiable shooting. When you are being herded into a second crime scene at gunpoint, you are reasonably in fear for your life, and the time to act is NOW.
So, make up your mind now, that: I will NOT get on the floor; I will NOT get on my knees; I will NOT go to the stock-room; I will NOT be tied up, and I will NOT get in the trunk of the car.
If you brandish a weapon and order me to do ANY of those things, you have declared total all-out war. You had better be ready for the consequences.
