What should a free man do?

Proactive Shopping

Here we are again, looking down the barrel of another Black Friday.  In view of the on-going threat constituted by various terrorists and now OWS dipshits, here's what I'm going to do: walk around for a few hours. I have a right to do so. And I have a right to be in a public place with a concealed weapon because I am properly licensed in my state to do so.  Are you?   If not, why not?  What kind of mayhem are you waiting for?

Ready or not, here I come.

There's a mall near me that might be targeted in an attack, either by shooters or a bomber.  So that's where I shall take my stroll.  I mean, why not?  It's the day on which the most conspicuous-consumption money gets spent by people all over the world, especially by infidels.  Why the mall near me and not the mall near... you?  I don't know. Maybe it will be the one near you.  I don't have any actionable intel, no premonitions, not making any SWAG.  I'm just going to the mall near me because I can go to that one whereas I can't go to the one near you.  Maybe you could go to the mall near you.  I'm just sayin'.

I live in a state which permits concealed carry of handguns so I'll take my baby with me, as I usually do, and a few travelin' items, listed here for your consideration. Tell me if I'm missing anything.

If you don't have a handgun but would like one, for any reason, take a look here for some thoughts on good, reasonably priced weapons. 

For the truck, just in case; 12GA 2.75', 1 Oz HP Slugs.

If you're going walking ~ a choice only you can make ~ here for your review are some posts I've proffered in the past such as Shooters, here, and Give Me Back My Bullets, here.  Homeless Alert, here, and Lessons from Omaha,  here. Oh, the weather outside is frightful, here.  But the fire is so delightful, here, and This just in, here.

I've tried to cover a host of possibilities in the posts linked to above, but I know I can't cover each and every scenario because there are too many variables.  Still, if I hear shots coming from one end of the mall, I'll move toward the sound of the guns, not run screaming into the parking lot. There will be enough people doing that ~ I don't need to participate. I'll try to get to the intersection closest to the shooter(s) and then try to find cover, if it's available or concealment of some sort if that's all the terrain gives me. 

If the set-up permits, here's what I'll try to do if I am the only... walker: Assuming the shooter(s) is approaching from the direction of Monkey Wards walking up the mall towards Jacque C Penne, I will look for cover behind the centered kiosk, if it's there. If not, I'll take cover in the Pet Store or the Salon. I'll wait til the shooter(s) moves north past the kiosk and engage him with as much firepower as I can, shooting from the Pet Store toward the Salon or toward the Pet Store from the Salon, depending of course on where I'm situated. I'm not going to take a shot or two and then duck. I'm going to shoot until he or she stops his or her threatening/deadly actions and if that means I have to empty a full 30 round mag ~ and I've got three of those ~ into him, then that's what it takes. Followed by a quick reload as I check for other approaching shooters.

If the kiosk is there I can use that as cover. I don't need to get right up next to it for it to block bullets, I can move laterally behind it for several feet to the east or west and as long as I keep it between me and the shooter, I'm covered.

If there happens to be another walker with me, here's what we'll try to do: Assuming we're walking at the north end as we hear shooting coming from the south end, we'll head at a range-walk toward the sound of the guns. My partner will take up a position just north of the kiosk and I will go into either Ed's or Oz, and at least get some concealment, if only from a shadow. These positions give my partner the ability to fire north to south from behind cover while I shoot east-west or west-east. My partner stays concealed until I see the shooters have moved into the zone directly between Ed's and Oz. When they're in that zone, I open fire east-west or west-east and my fellow-walker opens up north to south. Suddenly the shooters are taking fire from two directions and if it's accurate and sustained fire, they're going to stop their attack right then and there.

If there is no kiosk, my partner goes into the Pet Store or Salon kitty-corner from me and, using the door-frame along the main hallway as cover, shoots the bad-guys when I open fire. It might be best if he's prone as he fires so the bullets are rising as they hit the bad-guys... and rising if they miss.

These are general tactics I may need to change based on any number of unforeseeable circumstances.

And, of course I'll let the cops do what they have to do whenever it is that they arrive on scene.

And, if they question me, I won't lie to them.

 

Now you know the basics of the L-Shaped Ambush. But they started it, didn't they?

Of course, before I begin to fire, I've determined by the reasonable man standard, seen here, that the shooter(s) pose a clear and present danger to myself and other walkers and shoppers and that the shooter's deadly actions need to be stopped immediately using reasonable force which is in this case, since they're shooting at people, deadly force.

At least that's my estimate. If anyone else were to be in my situation, he or she would have to make their own decision as to what he or she would or would not do. Maybe all one might choose to do is counter-surveillance ~ walking around looking for suspicious people and things to report to the police. I don't know. I only know what I'll do. And those who mutter or shout that we must doooooo something, but then do nothing can keep on muttering. 

Alrightythen,  I'll let you know how it turns out.  Hey, if you're so inclined, equiped and trained and you take a walk, you can let me know how it turns out.

How it turned out, as promised, update 26 Nov 11: Wall to wall people, most tightly packed at the food court.  Saw two security guards the entire hour I was there.  While I was doing recon on the food court by standing there pretending to describe the food options to the imaginary friend on the other end of my phone, one guard waltzes in the door from outside.  She's got a clipboard in her hand and proceeds to walk down the way where you have to line up at the various shops to order food.  At a pretty good pace, she walks the entire length, about 200', and then disappears.  Not once did she slow down to take a look at the crowd as they sat and stood and walked.  I estimate probably 300 people in the food court.

A few minutes later, I see the top of a security hat bobbing up and down and I assume there's a guard under it.  I was right.  I guess.  He's a little guy, but has on his happy face.  As I continue to talk to my phone he walks by and stops to move some sort of sign ~ like a small bucket hanging from a tripod ~ about 2".  Ahhhhh, perfect right there, I guess he was thinking.  Then he spots on the floor a splash of drink that I'd seen as I walked by that spot moments before.  The spot is about 5" square.  And it's dry.  He goes to some closet and comes back with one of those yellow warning signs and puts it on the dry drink spot and marches proudly away.

As I left the mall to head for my favorite pub to watch the Rangers and the Capitals play hockey, I saw the security SUV drive onto property with his little yellow light flashing atop his little white Ford. 

And that is all I saw, about 1330 to 1430 at the mall just down the street.

What I should have seen is a hell of a lot more security officers, all of them armed.  There should have been at least three officers on the building roof surveying parking lots and entry doors, looking for people getting out of vehicles as described in detail here.  There should have been at least two unmarked officers in the food court set up to ambush any shooters coming through the main door.  That fat guard in the booth by the door doesn't count, he's dead meat.

Anyway; you're still on your own out there.  Security will not keep you safe.  They don't have to do anything more than observe and report. So, it's up to you to protect yourself and those you love.

Update: 17 December 11: Going hunting.

Okay, I'm back.  Some observations:

• Wear different shoes next time.
• Saw only four security guards in the two hours I was there.  None armed.  One was a tall, chubby guy you could see coming a mile away.  Problem is, when he closed that mile and was right on top of you, he's still just there to observe and report.  Another was the girl I saw last time in the food court, only this time she was busy showing people how to find some store.  Another one was maybe the little guy who so dutifully marked that spilled but dry beverage my last trip there.  This time he was astride a mount: a Segway.  He had on a helmet reminiscent of old B17 tail-gunners. Goofy. And one tall, slender guy outside.  There may have been one or two on "patrol" in the parking lots but I didn't look there.
• Frozen yogurt brain freeze is like ice cream brain freeze, only quicker.
• There was a "Santa" guy strolling here and there doing little Christmas tunes on his accordian.  He had a little blue ear-ring in his left ear.  So, I forget: does that mean he's gay or that he's a biker?
• Some kid handed me a sample of Thai food and when the toothpick broke off in my mouth, I was momentarily concerned... until I realized the toothpick was actually a piece of uncooked spaghetti.  There is no Off position on the genius switch, eh?

When I first entered the mall, my profiling alarm went off like a roadside bomb because of...

This cupcake.  My guess is that's her son on her right.  Remember; boys and girls; even in the land of the free a Muslim woman is not permitted to be out of the house without escort from her husband or a male member of her family.  The hijab she was imprisoned in wasn't large enough to flow behind her as she walked so it was pretty easy to see from my position that she wasn't hiding a bomb... on her butt.  I kept her in sight from about 50', looking around me for someone who might be her handler, somebody with a detonator who'd blow her up when she got to the most deadly position among the shoppers.  Didn't see anyone who seemed suspicious in that regard and was going to try to get in front of her so I could see if she looked like she was pregnant but I lost her in the crowd ahead.  I think she ducked into the Victoria's Secret to check out the thongs.  Ooo, that's pretty creepy.  Anyway, I took a look around to see if the lovely stuck-on-stupid-in-the-7th-century couple came up for air and they didn't so I continued the promenade. 

About 90 minutes later, I was profiling in an area that had a higher probability of being attacked than most others in the building.  There I saw a young male who appeared to be of Arab extraction who was very focused on texting something to someone.  Okay.  I get it.  Everybody does that.  Sure, but not if and when I'm profiling.  The government cannot profile as a matter of law.  I can, may and will profile since I'm not a government agent.  So, if you're a young Arab-looking male in a likely attack location, tapping on your phone and looking like your head is about to explode because you're so intensely focused as you signal your brothers ~ a/o twitching with hate ~ then I'm going to watch you.  Closely.  I'm going to move to a position where I can see you but you can't easily see me.  Too, I'll try to make that spot one where I can see any of your brothers approaching.  It will probably turn out that you're just letting them know there's a really bitchin' sale on girls undies so y'all can properly dress your bacha bazi boyfriends, like these little fellas.

If it's not that, if you're there calling them in to begin some jihad, you will be resisted... with great vigor, resolve and firepower.

Okay, that being said; I did see the Muslimah and her harmless escort as I was on the way out of the building.  They were both in one piece, seemingly harmless. 

Knife fights and other annoyances

Okay, let's get to it, shall we? I like to try to set the context for why I write what I write about standing against Islam and so here is today's offering; it'll make you sick.  For those who wonder how can people do such horrid things to one another, just look at the third picture down.  That's the answer, right there: Qur'an 9:5.  It's what they're required to do by their religion. 

The way it should be: they whine, we laugh out loud.

And, no, other religions are not the same.  If you take the time to study Islam rather than plan your next frivolous romp in Vegas, or stop listening to the crap coming from Chicago Jesus about the wonders of Islam, you'll quickly discover the truth.  To those of you who have done your homework, goodonya.  To those who have not, what the hell are you waiting for ~ a knife in your throat? 

Speaking of being slaughtered by Muslims: if you were about to be attacked by a representative of the Religion of Peace, what weapon would most likely be used against you? 

Yes, you can kill lots of people at one time by taking over an aircraft and driving it into a skyscraper. But, of all the methods used by terrorists to kill and maim; cutting, slashing and stabbing with edged weapons is the most often used. Why? Because it's easier to obtain or create an edged weapon than a Boeing 757. You break a beer bottle, you got an edged weapon that can kill.  Does anybody not know what a broken beer bottle looks like? How about a broken vodka bottle?  Alrightythen, let's move on.

 

This is a made for police training only video created several years ago, now apparently not restricted to cops.  That's good, because it shows you just how quickly you can get cut long, deep and frequently by someone skilled in the use of edged weapons.  Find some insight into knife-fighting realities here from someone who appears to know that of which he speaks.

Take a look here at how UK Muslims are being encouraged to raise the knife of jihad.  I looked for articles telling us about "moderate" Muslims who had the sand to correct the knife raisers and get them to change their evil,  misunderstanding-Islam ways but found no such stories.  Go figure.  You can read more here about UK Muslim street jihad... with knives.  Maybe the London Muslima who went on a slashing spree here had signed up for the cause.  We find still another Muslim woman who stabbed a Brit MP here, perhaps in response to the call of her confused coreligionists.  And what's the name of their so-called religion, boys and girls?  C'mon, hiss it with me:

Issssslaaaam.

But, of course, the knife of jihad isn't raised only in the British Isles, is it?  We can read here about a Muslim man who walked into a Connecticut grade school with a knife, was released with no charges filed against him... and later stabbed two somebodies at a gas station.  I'm not at all trying to say that the only people who stab others are Muslims, just to make the point again that anyone calling Islam the religion of peace does not know history, not 1400 years or 1400 seconds worth of it.  The plain fact is that most terrorism is committed by Muslims, most terrorist attacks are conducted with easily obtained a/o made edged weapons, therefore you're more likely to be attacked by a Muslim terrorist with a knife than a Babtist rain-dancer with a bumbershoot.

Harmless bumbershooter.

Hey, guess what: there's more.  Looks here as though there's a lady slasher cutting up NYC, so anybody want to bet what which direction she faces when she prays?  I'm just sayin'.  You can read here about Spaniards being attacked by a man with an axe, and here about a Moroccan man ~ probably Muslim ~ who went on a rampage with a knife in Ibiza, a Spanish resort town.  Read here about a woman who was stabbed to death and then beheaded while in Tenerife, still another popular Spanish holiday spot.  While there is no evidence to suggest that the killer was anything but a psychotic, the point of my point about being prepared remains sharp, because the victim was stalked, as we see here.  She depended on others for her survival and the others failed her.  The sheriff here is right to advise people to arm themselves for their own defense.

With that take-care-of-yourself thing in mind, sometime back I wrote here about what to do if you're faced with a slasher on a bus, and here about what to do if you're attacked with a hammer, a weapon suggested by Islamo-thugs because it's deadly yet looks so innocent.

Backing it down a notch, not long ago some Muslim thugs attacked a French couple on the streets of Paris.  I'd like to see them try that on the streets of Parris Island, SC, eh? Sorry, I couldn't find a way to embed the video so you'll have to click here to get a look.  But I'll wait while you watch it.   Go ahead.  In this video, we see the arrogance of perceived power, that of the several savages who have somehow concluded that they have the right to walk the streets attacking people simply for not being Muslim.  How do I know the motivation of these thugs?  I don't know for sure, I'm just playing the odds, running the statistical probabilities.  I read about these kinds of attacks by Muslims against infidels almost every day.  Do you?

Why not?

 

This is what I mean by taking care of yourself.  The guy didn't even think of calling the cops, he just gets back in the face of the Muslims and attacks them.

I try to put helpful videos in my posts, as long as they show tactics and procedures that I, based on my training and experience, believe can be helpful to the guy on the street.  All the knife attack defenses I've found involve a number of steps and the only way you're going to get good at those defensive moves is to practice them all the time so they become second-nature.  But you're not going to do that, are you?  So, without going into the details of how I've been trained to handle people with edged weapons, I'll ask you to have a look at the two Krav Maga videos below for some good, basic, easy-to-remember responses to knife attacks.

Knife to the throat.

Defense against slash.

 

This ad makes me want to puke every time I see it.  The wife tells us about the emotional pain she suffered because she saw some burglar rummaging through her stuff.  Imagine what she'd be feeling if that burglar had stuck a gun in her face, forced her and her daughter upstairs and then and raped the shit out of them, daughter first, then left them to die.  But ADT won't go near that possible scenario because they know they have no product to mitigate against that kind of crime.  But what's the difference between the burglar in the ad and the rapist/murderer I just conjured up?  Time and opportunity.  That's all.  The narrator says: When a call is received, ADT can call the local authorities... The little lady doesn't see the subtle legal wording that gets ADT off the hook if they somehow don't call the cops.  Saying they can is not the same as saying they will or they shall.  ADT knows it cannot control what their "highly trained professionals" will actually do when that call comes in.  The "professional" might be late, or drunk, or taking a crap, or texting her boyfriend, or watching porn on the computer, or racist and sitting there thinking: that white bitch deserves it.  I'm not calling anyone until I get aaaaaaaaall the facts.  Now, where is it that I put my liiiiiitle, tiny pencil?

ADT can't control how quickly "the authorities" will respond.  As you can read here, Detroit PD won't respond to a burglar alarm unless you have proof a crime has been committed.  And, courts have decided that cops are not required by law to protect you personally, they are sworn to protect "society" in general, of which you and your loved ones make up one small piece.  So, it's up to you.  Take a look at the husband in the ADT ad.  What a pussy.  I know, he's just an actor sitting there with a stupid look on his face, but he depicts too many men in this country who are so fearful or lazy or careless or whatever that they don't see the many dan0gers we face as a society ~ and by extension he and his family are included ~ every day and night.  He gives her peace of mind by saying, I will surrender my responsibility as a man to protect my loved ones to a company who's already lied to me on TV, which employs people I wouldn't trust to go get my mail.

Just wait til they outsource to India.

 

Grab some curb

Have you ever watched helicopter coverage of police chasing some bozo and wondered aloud: Why don't they do something besides chase him?  They could stop him there or there or right there. The longer they let this go on, the more potential there is for innocent bystanders to be hurt because the longer they permit this clown to keep up his antics, the more people he endangers because he's not yet stopped. 

You don't wonder about that?  Really?

Okay, whoever you are, here's the deal: according to Georgia law, Vehicular Homicide is the unlawful killing of another with the use of a vehicle.  Neither malice aforethought nor intent is required as elements of proof for this crime.  In Washington, Reckless Endangerment is a gross misdemeanor requiring conduct not amounting to a drive-by shooting but that creates a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to another person.  This tragedy proves my point perfectly, don't you think?

So, let's put some bozo in a car who's running from the cops just because he was doing 25 in a school zone.  Cop lights him up, Bozo punches it because he doesn't have insurance, and they're off to the races.  He's already looking at a speeding ticket of at least 5 over the limit plus no insurance; tack on Reckless Endangerment and Felony Elude, just for starters.  Beginning in a school zone full of kids, the pursuit can run through, past, over and under lots and lots of people who are just out and about, minding their own bidness in various neighborhoods, parks, malls, business districts, narrow alleys, dusty alleys, bowling alleys, along high or low roads to Scotland or elsewhere, downtown, uptown, the back 40, or the north 40...

You know that big-ass parking lot they got.

Let's shift gears, shall we?  Read here about a Mexican drug cartel trying to kill Mexican soldiers by luring them into a trap and blowing them away with what was essentially an IED. 

So that changes the entire angle, doesn't it? 

 

Let's call her Sally Scion.  Behold the old paradigm: reporters ho-humming a commentary on the pursuit ~ yadda-yadda-yadda ~ never even wondering for a moment if the driver of the vehicle could be trying to lure as many cops as she can as close to her car as possible so she can kill them all with one blast.  In this case, it looks like it was maybe a soccer mom who was just having a really bad day.  But do you see all the cops around the Scion at the end?  Geez, what a horrible thing it would be if someone did all what that woman did and then detonated a bomb when all the cops were dismounted and trying to get the driver out of the car.  And I mean that seriously; it would be a horrible thing.

But, you're just a civilian, not a cop.  What are the odds that terrorists will try to provoke you into chasing them up and down the road to finally blow you up when they get to just the right spot?  It's improbable. What's more likely would be a scenario where you're attacked as follows:

Rather than taking a whack at you motoring along in your beige Volvo, terrorists will go for your Ride-Share van because it's an amply-loaded soft target: only one person paying attention ~ the driver, one hopes ~ everyone else trying to stack a few more Zs before being let out at the office to begin a day of honest toil.  Or something.  Some guy comes up behind you and gives you a bumper tap with enough force to rock the van but not do any damage.  You remember doing that in high school, right?  So, ennewaze, then the driver of the car behind you drives up next to you with her ~ yes, I switched the gender of the attacker just to keep you on your toes ~ window down and coos, Oooo, I'm so so sorry.  My insurance will cover everything so follow me up around the corner, out of this traffic, and we'll exchange information.  She drives around the corner, into a parking lot and stops.  She motions for you to pull in behind her and you don't even notice that directly parallel to you, a couple stalls over, is a van with its side door or rear door looking right at you.

What do you think's comin' next? 

Probably nothing more than the exchange of insurance information and some some dirty looks.  But what could happen is that, as soon as you stop behind her car, the door on that van three stalls over pops open and a couple of men open fire on your innocent little "green" shuttle.  And you're dead, but you can die with pride since you gave your life trying to save the planet.  Yea... right.

So, here's what you might do rather than get suckered into an ambush: you lead the way to where the information exchange will take place.  More detail  here, including how to bust through a road-block, cool stuff every motorist should know.  What do you do if you see the cops swarming around a car, trying to do what you saw in the video?  Well, chances are that if you see lots of movement by cops after the suspect vehicle is stopped, then there is probably no bomb in the car, waiting to be detonated.  The bomber most likely would have detonated from inside the car to be sure the detonator wasn't effected by any struggle with arriving and arresting cops. 

Still, what you can do if you decide is drive beyond the site where all the comotion is going on and pull off to the side of the road.  At that time and place, take a look around for suspicious activity a/o people.  Suspicious? 

• Someone in a vehicle or on foot on an overpass or similar good viewing spot who's looking at the scene through binoculars, or taking photos with a full-size camera, video or still.  Can you do a drive-by and get a vehicle/driver description you can quickly pass to the 911 operator?  Good.
• Someone walking just down the street from you who seems frustrated that the cell phone in his hand didn't work properly, which is to say it failed to send a det signal to the bomb in the car over there by all the cops.  Can you do a drive-by and get a description of that guy a/o girl and pass to the 911 operator ASAP?  Excellent.
• Someone who was parked alongside the road watching as the cops got the suspect to stop but who leaves a few seconds after that ~ thereby suggesting with his actions: Dang, the detonator in my hand here didn't set off the bomb over there by all those cops, so I'd better bounce on outta here.  Can you pass that info to the cop comms center?  Great.
  
• Or, can you call the 911 operator and ask if he or she can have one of the units there at the scene break loose and check out the guys mentioned above who just might be on counter-surveillance, or the handler of the person the cops just put in cuffs.  Awesome.

Now, if I may; here are some thoughts for law enforcement officers viz chasing cars around and being bushwhacked. 

Actually, cops can stop any car any time they want.  So why don't they?  Because, as I said here, too many gutless "leaders" trying to protect their reputations and pensions instead of the people and their officers.  As well, they care too much about the feelings of suspects.  I mean, they can't even say suspect anymore to describe a punk found covered in somebody else's blood at a murder scene.  He's just a person of interest.  If you're a regular here, you already know how to stop people in cars who are endangering people.  C'mon, say it with me: shooooot the driiiiiver.  Hey, people who say violence doesn't solve anything are simply cowards and no fun at parties.

Not therapy, softer approaches, or less-lethal weapons.  Violence. 

If someone reported an abandoned vehicle on a crowded street and said there was something that looked like an artillery shell on the back seat, the cops would respond with the bomb guys and those cool little robots, right?  They wouldn't run up to the car, jump on it and start banging on the windows.  So, why would anyone jump on Sally's car just because she finally decided to grab some curb?  What if Sally's plan all along was going to drive slowly but illegally with police motorcade through the town to a park where there's a festival going on and then, with all the choppers in the air and cops flashing their lights and laying on their wailers, she was going to blow the shit out of everybody? What if she, fully loaded with AMFO, stopped next to another vehicle loaded up with even more AMFO?  Blazing fucking inferno, that's what.  All because SOP created by some dipshit community policing wizard says the best way to handle a pursuit is to follow the suspect until she rrrrreally fucks up by pissing off Roscoe Rules.

Listen up: despite all the noodle-rubbing any so-called expert may do, nobody can know if Sally is going to injure or kill someone while having half the freaking police force on her tail as she vents.  To protect cops, she and all her kind need to be stopped as quickly as possible at a spot chosen by pursuing/responding cops, not just followed until she boxes herself into a corner or runs out of gas.   The rules of engagement have changed.  There are more killers among us than ever before, willing to and even planning on killing as many infidels cops as they can.  So, in order to better control the outcome of any traffic stop made in this asymetrical war, cops need to decide where and when the vehicle gets stopped, not leave it to whimsey or treachery. This is a rule of warfare: never let the enemy decide where the battle is to be fought.

Sally Scion is doing exactly what an enemy would do: drive in such a manner as to draw a pursuit but slowly enough to not present a clear and present danger ~ just a bit of a nuisance until enough cops show up to make  some sort of stop.  Oh, you don't think a blonde American woman would getyou to follow her and then blow you up or trick you into an alley full of shooters?  Remember this bitch? 

Have you, a brave blue knight, moved past the belief that pretty girls smile at you when you pull them over because they think you're cute?  Police ladies; you think it's that pony-tail they like and how soft your hands look, eh?  They're playing you.  So, if it's true that you're being zoomed, and it is, then it may also be true that one of them will someday soon be driving you in circles until he or she gets enough of your posse close enough to make the boom he or she's carrying in the trunk turn you and all your responding buddies into pink mist.  See below for a variation on the theme.

Three cop cars in a potential kill zone.  Gray van side door slides open, back one pops up, gunfire erupts from the right flank.

In addition to the gray van in the pic above, the vehicle being stopped is a van.  Rear doors open up, bullets start flying out the back.

Perfect L-shaped infantry ambush, taught in all combat courses in the world.  Fire coming out of the back and sides of  the gray van in the driveway and the back of the green van in the street.

Throw the silver SUV in the driveway into the equation and guess how many bodybags the PD will need.

Putting myself in this last picture, I see lots of patrol cars and at least one unmarked unit and lots of cops and I'd ask myself: which of the people driving by to see what's going on are actually follow-up bad-guys to do even move shooting?  And, I'd also wonder if all this was a diversion to get us all over here, waaaaay far away from the actual target of this group... maybe these knuckleheads are just decoys. 

So, be careful where you make your traffic stops.  Don't make your stops, felony or not, next to vans or cars when your instinct is screaming that you're about to be bombed or ambushed.   If you're caught, the thing to do in an ambush is to get out of the kill zone as quickly as possible.  If possible, stop and engage the enemy from a position of cover once you're clear. 

Remember; a slow pursuit, not a fast get-away, is more likely to be an ambust set-up.  Slow gets you to follow them to the kill zone. Fast prpobably means there is no kill zone, they just don't want to get caught.  In a situation such as depicted above, someone needs to stay in a position where he can see and respond with appropriate violence to any extra shooters coming in batting clean up.  Also, some sergeant needs to remind responding patrols that not every single unit is necessary at the scene, some need to stay active, looking for more shooters inbound, and ready to respond to an even more horrific event across town.  As noted here: one grenade can kill you all.

Speaking of traps: one of my all time favorites...