Factors relevant to church shootings

After my initial thoughts about the White Settlement church shooting, a list of other relevant factors came to mind. The conversation about the incident mostly has centered around the ability to make a 12-15 yard head shot. The tactical factors have largely been ignored or overlooked. That’s a Strategic Mistake.

Here’s my list for those wishing to do their own research and METT-TC analysis.

• Efforts of a group v. team
  • https://activecollab.com/blog/collaboration/group-vs-team
• Definition and roles of ‘[physical] Security’
  • https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/physical-security
• Contact and Cover
  • https://www.policemag.com/342511/is-contact-and-cover-dead
• Individual nature of most training
  • https://books.google.com/books?id=yPhBAAAAYAAJ
• Defeat in detail
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defeat_in_detail
  • previous POlice incidents
    • Newhall
    • Miami
    • Medina, North Dakota
    • Paseo
• Complications of coordinated action for both sides
  • https://80000hours.org/articles/coordination/
• Incident recognition
  • https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/214217.pdf
• Lesson – failure of tactics not marksmanship
  • https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA363910
• Coordinated response
  • Bad lessons learned from visual media
    • Most peoples’ training comes from TV and movies – Tom Givens of Rangemaster https://rangemaster.com/
    • Competence is not dramatic, no one is going to pay to see that – Brian Hill of The Complete Combatant http://www.thecompletecombatant.com/
• Discipline
  • http://bit.ly/disciplinedefinition
• Downrange nature of the problem
  • https://tacticalprofessor.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/downrange-practice/
• Parishioners moving
  • Inactivity not necessarily a bad thing
  • No Counter-Murder Operator wants a bunch of moving non-threats cluttering up his field of fire
• Deception in tactical situations
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_deception
• L-shaped engagement
  • https://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/under-fire-caught-in-an-ambush/
• Positioning
  • https://www.policeone.com/officer-safety/articles/tactical-positioning-2alNGxytqUgRA1p9/
• Frugal nature of church expenditure in regard to training
• Unpleasant realities
  • https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/sermons-about-unpleasant-realities?keyword=Unpleasant+Realities

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