Category: Public Space
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Mundane Movements: Driving Part 1 – Position, Escape, and if needed… Fight!
Remember, you’re behind the wheel of a two-ton bullet. -My Grandmother Joan, explaining the dangers of driving when I was 15 It turns out Grandma Joan didn’t know she was also talking about the best way to get out of an ambush when you’re in a car. The reality is that the skinny pedal on the…
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Mundane Movements: Parking Lots, Part 2, Exiting the Store, Loading your Vehicle, and Going Home
After our shopping is done and we tuck that impulse bought stuffed animal in with the little one, it’s time to go from the relative safety of the store back out into the world. We can break this down into phases and have plans for each phase of getting back to the car. We have to leave the store,…
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Mundane Movements: Parking Lots, Part 1: Positioning and Movement INTO the Store
This post is universally applicable to the person who wants to decrease a criminal’s ability to close space and gain positional dominance via maneuver and avenues of approach, while simultaneously increasing their own ability to maintain reactionary space, preserve positional dominance and set them self up for an uneventful departure after the shopping is done. The goal…