I have to agree with what Mike said about Monday Morning quarter backing. One of the things I wonder about is how so many people feel strongly about something without ever experiencing anything like it. Mike I understand what you mean about having to be there, for as a working as a police officer and now managing a security company one does not really know how it feels to be in such a heart pumping experience. Though you feel your actions were correct, I can assure you that if you had any risk assessment management training that your reactions would have been different. Just think this for a minute, if one of your stray bullets were to hit a little girl walking outside, I’m sure you would be thinking completely different then you are now, as a matter of fact you would be in jail. The only difference between the current outcome and that which I mentioned is that luckily no little girl was walking by your store at the time of the incident.

Please don’t think that I’m trying to make someone look evil here. Nature has set automatic reaction in all of us in which most of us let those reactions take over in such experiences. However, if you wish to be an effective respondent then you have to train yourself to stop that automatic switch from turning on and train your brain to first think about the best reaction that is going to give you the best possible outcome.

P.S. In regards to DMAC’s comments, please do research as to why banks have their policies before commenting. Please feel free to make comments but at least make the effort to research your opinion. Banks which have been robbed have almost no deaths to account for! That is what you need to wonder about! Most deaths in robbery occur in places were the robber is most likely to walk away with a couple hundred dollars, if that. It is funny that you state to be proactive for that is what they teach you in police academy, and in no way shape or form do they tell you to not defend yourself. You see what you refer to is “reactive” which you state people should respond, not “proactive” which means that you do not only respond but you prepare yourself in advance so that you manage the situation with the best possible results. We did not sit around after training or an incident and say “hey, all went good so there is nothing to say”, we would sit and discuss how the situation could have been handled with even better results; this is what I wished I saw from Mike. This would have at least made me know that Mike learned and grew from the experience and that he would prepare so that if a situation like such would arise again, that action would be more calculated. But to think that everything ended fine and that no one wants to talk about the stray bullets makes me think that if a situation should occur again bullets will again so stray and pierce the windows. Say what you will but NO ONE here will have the same opinion if their child happens to be walking by a store that suddenly goes under fire.

Please remember that numerous children die each year, not because a gun was pointed at them but because a stray bullet was unintentionally sent in their direction.

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