Critical Response Tactics – Responding to the threat

* Positioning lethal weapons

* Keeping them locked and secured

* Keeping them out of reach of your bed: brain fog

* Positioning less-lethal weapons

* Can be at the ready * Having flashlights available

* Can be used to distract

* Announcing your presence and the fact your armed * May be a valid technique in some cases

* Calling 911 at the first safe time to do so

* Room clearing tactics

* Using angles / basic threshold evaluation

* Using reflective surfaces to see around corners / rooms

* Keeping your distance from corners

* Controlling their access routes to you

* How to use less-lethal in an indirect manner before you see the suspect

* The goal is not to neutralize the assailant, its to protect yourself, your family, and to facilitate escape