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i would stay right in my living room... guns sitting right next to the 'puter desk with the phone on it.
Brent
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The dispatcher's advice was sound, and here's why. When SWAT enters the picture in a situation like this, they're in "active shooter" mode. They're not in condition red; they're in condition bright, florescent, glowing red (and that's only because I can't think of a condition higher than red
) Safeties are off and they're looking for a fight.
Now, you've got the wife and kiddies huddled all safe behind your wood framed walls, SWAT flushes the BG's and a firefight ensues. SWAT's trained to avoid collateral damage, but it's highly unlikely that any BG is going to give a rat's behind where his rounds go. Now given the likelihood of bullets buzzing around like a hive of P.O.'d bees, I think I'd want my family behind something more bullet proof than the average home's walls (granted: brick homes are the exception, but those still have windows)
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I know of few basements that have either a decent exit or better cover than the home above them.
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Man, the one thing I really... REALLY hate when I'm clearing a building is going down steps into a cellar. It's a fatal funnel with no other way in. So from a defensive standpoint, it's the one place I'd prefer to make a stand
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