Eric Vought, Commander Lawrence County Sheriff s Auxiliary October 30, 2013 Silver Legacy Hotel and Events

Center, Reno, NV

 A phone call,

interrupted. Something's going on . . . . Get back in your room, lock the door, and get under the bed. 6 people shot; 2 fatalities.

 Hours to get that

information. Night waiting to learn who would live. Three hours for police/EMTs to enter campus. Former roommate arrested and charged with murder.

 Dorms considered

crime scenes, closed off = refugees everywhere. Parents arriving, finals canceled. State police gathering evidence. Why did this happen?

 A full year for the trial

to start. No news; could not witness trial. Friends saved clippings in a box.

 Conversational pitfalls.
New students don't

know what's happened, no one will explain. The Night the Music Died; invisible victims. Civil suits and effects on the administration.

 Fear comes in

technicolor plastic. Community simmered: Free Lev Bronstein! The Dean speaks. Students crumble, the wounded stand tall.

 Goneboy - Greg

Gibson's closure. Struggling with illness. Writing Wayne Lo after 17 years. Sandy Hook on 20th anniversary.

 Resounding NO. Mitigation is possible.

 In depth, instantaneous

and highly adaptive. Dependent on bystanders for critical moments. Active shooter incident often leaves victims on own. Communicate/coordinate to transition to professional response.

 Bad stuff happens; we

don't choose comrades. Coordination and training happens before incident. Local response must be automatic, reflexive. Wide dispersion of trained volunteers bridge to professionals.

 Everyone participates.
First Aid

Know when to get

out of the way.

How to transition to
SelfDefense

CSS
Comms

professional response.

 Joplin EF-5 14-county

deputy depletion. Supplements Sheriff's Office manpower. Organized February 2012. Trained, deploy as teams, exercise, interoperation, ICS/NIMS. On-call, armed, nonpeace-officer volunteers.

 Never enough police.

Shooters like soft targets;

guns level playing field. Evidence that defender need only disrupt attack. They intend to break the law and not survive; control. Out of the box: Children can defend. ALICE.

Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate

 I have used first-aid kit more than gun.

Defense important but priorities often

wrong. Firearm as right not separable from duty; requires training, coordination, sense. Our society founded on citizen response; how to make effective in modern US?

 Our School Shooting

Gone Boy by Gregory Gibson

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