You practice your draw, but do you practice what happens afterwords?

Warning Long Read So, it's encouraged that you practice your draw so that it becomes muscle memory during a time of need. A saying I learned in the military is slow is smooth and smooth is fast. So always practice your draw and go to the range and practice aim. You want to be able to hit the threat. What happens when you draw, but the threat makes the right choice and leaves? What do you do next? This is where the plan you practice comes into play. To many times have we seen “I didn’t call the police.” I’m not a lawyer, but I have a plan. I want to share it with everyone so that people who have never practiced what to do after the fact. 1. Retreat: I have a duty to retreat in my state outside of my home. This equates to situational awareness. You should never be in a spot where you don’t have an easy out. Sometimes it’s unavoidable, but in those situations you should make a quick mental checklist of your surroundings and if something seems off just leave before you commit to spending time there. 2. Draw: Once you are in a situation where you have no possible route to evade an altercation and it has now become a threat on your life draw your weapon before the hostile gets any closer. Now there are many forms you can use to fire a pistol, but the military ingrained into my head to have my shoulders squared, arms extended with elbows slightly bent, knees slight bent, and my waist slightly bent.Make you commands clear and loud. Tell them to proceed no further. If they have a weapon and are not making an effort to use it **(their weapon is not pointed at you); tell them to drop the weapon. These types of situations can escalate quickly even for those with professional training. No one wants to ever pull the trigger, but step 3 covers what you need to do. 3. Defend: Use the force necessary to ensure that your loved ones and yourself are safe. This is everyone’s nightmare, but it’s them or you. Do what you need to do. Once the threat is neutralized and the area is perceived to be safe you’re still not done. You can skip this step if step 2 was successful. 4. Scan: Your head should be on a swivel and it shouldn’t stop because you had to draw your ccw. Begin checking for other threats. The hostile may have not been acting alone. Before you holster your ccw check your surroundings twice. 5. Call the Police: Now that the threat is all clear call the police. Stop what you’re doing. If you’re being pursued by hostiles (I saw someone post that they were followed) contact the police and give them all the details and continue to not stop until the authorities arrive. It will be you versus them when it comes to the story so call the police first. 6. Call your lawyer: I have a group lawyer service and dgu incidents are covered. It’s about $100 a month and I can fit it into my budget. If you can’t afford that look into CCW insurance. Choose carefully as some don’t offer great coverage. If you don’t want to do that shop your local attorneys until you find a good one that you can place on retainer for a dgu incident. My attorney told me to tell the police exactly what happened.“My name is (Insert name here) I am currently located at (address or approximate location) and I had to draw/use a weapon to defend my life. I am armed and will obey lawful orders once police arrive. I would like to stay on this call, but I am going to call my lawyer. If you need to reach me here is my phone number. Please send police and an ambulance.” The ambulance is going to be for you or the hostile. 7. Contact your SO: If your spouse, family, loved ones, or cat is not on sight contact them. Let them know what happened and that you’re safe. If you’re unable to do this, you can have your lawyer do this if you have given them your SO’s contact information. My group lawyer service covers this for me, but if you pay your lawyer you can ask that they do it. Most lawyers will. When the officers arrive on site comply with their orders. If they take your ccw so be it, but know that you may or may not get it back. If they begin to question you let them know that your will remain silent until you have legal representation present. Don’t resist if they put you in hand cuffs. If at any time you feel you need medical services (if any of you have ever had to draw/fire a weapon in your defense you know you get physically ill the first time or every time) let the emergency services on site know. Have a plan. Make sure that calling the police is your top priority once you draw and the hostile is neutralized. If they get away you don’t know who may be their next target. I like to use the Spiderman analogy from the recent movies. He let that criminal go and the result was that uncle Ben was killed. If you call the police maybe they will find the hostile and he will harm no more for that night. Be safe out there and may you never have to draw. via /r/CCW http://ift.tt/2mzHq2P