Unfortunately, the "Scan" is now being questioned - because it takes your attention away from the perpetrators and opens a window of opportunity for them to try once again. People have a very annoying habit of not falling down dead right there. While it's been the hot ticket to scan around for another combatant, are we choosing to use an LEO tactic when we should be using the opportunity to retreat to cover?
Just don't turn your back on them.
I have no problem reading Ayoob and adopting some of the techniques he presents - but I take it with a grain of salt. Yes, his perspective is Law Enforcement based, and that is a deliberate frame of acting to dominate a lethal situation. We hire cops for the job to confront, not run away. We chose to run away when we hired them to do it - in the bigger picture.
That is how the current situation developed, when we gave the mission to act to cops rather than retain it personally as we have had to do for centuries of human contact. Nobody was going to bail us out dealing with brigands and highwaymen, and nobody can today, we just think that is how it's supposed to be. After all, we hired the cops to do it, right?
So the concept you can't stay in the gunfight is now ingrained in the publics mind, and in case law. Have we done ourselves a favor attempting to delegate it to the police? Maybe not - when circumstances do arise where their is NO retreat, does having an attitude you could do that prepare you for not being able to?
Getting out of the fight quickly is a good first option but not guaranteed whatsoever. Doing everything we can to prevent a gunfight is a good philosophy - one I continually dredge up in HD fantasy threads - but there is the possibility that all you do may fail to deter it.
Therefore denial is only going to get you in deeper trouble. Ask the guy assaulted by a gang of motorcyclists on the NY freeways one Sunday morning - with undercover LEO"s participating. If it's "improbable" that will never happen, sure, the odds clearly indicate it. Doesn't mean you won't need an answer, which such incidents provoke. Better an answer to a situation that can't ever happen than no answer, which is exactly what many bullies and intruders depend on.
While we may see an abundance of silly threads on unlikely events - it does point out that there are a lot of variations and there is no one set answer. Ever. Depending on a single course of action could set you up for failure just as much as success.
What we read about in court trials are those who tried it and it didn't work out so well. Even the prosecutor wasn't assured of it's ethics - hence he defers to a judge to take the blame for allowing it. . .
so the political fallout doesn't come on him, ie Zimmerman and Wilson. Public deemed them guilty but found innocent after all is said and done.
You have to be alive to move out of town and get on with life. Do the best you can - not everyone bases their conclusions on the right ethics and you can find a place where it's not a constant post shooting issue.
If the worst case scenario hasn't even be considered yet - and Concealed Carriers have to accept they are subject to a higher risk - then what is your escape plan for a shooting gone political?
Nobody talks about what you should do after the fact much, but Ayoob tries.
