You're in a mall buying new shoes and hear automatic gunfire. Now what do you do?

Since 08-31-08

by 'Coastie'

The following scenario doesn't belong to me and the author will be revealed at the end (in time). Yet, since this is the rash of events that have happened at least with a single gunman in the past (at many shopping malls), it may also possibly come (in the future). So we should all be prepared, which of course is why we carry, and why we're members of USCCA.

You and a buddy are in a shoe store buying shoes, in a relatively large suburban shopping mall. You both have your .45 caliber pistols with you along with 1 spare mag of 17 rounds each in a fanny pack around your waist. Naturally you're licensed to carry and this mall doesn't have the GFZ policy. In fact there is no security guard station in the entire mall save for only one kiosk-type information/security desk for the entire mall.

That security person will go down with the first BG's blast and he won't have a chance to dial 911 or anyone else.

All of a sudden you both hear off the in the near distance small arms firing long strings of fire (rat-tat-tat!) You also hear people, mainly women and children, screaming! You hear more than one gun firing next door in the larger JC Penney-type store, and you are aware of other distant sounds of firing as well.

You see two Arab-looking BGs with Ingram SMGs, without barrel extensions, wildly firing in a few stores just down the way from you opposite one another, each firing into the store in front of them. Due to the high rate of fire these guns aren't hitting much initially besides ceilings and floors, but still the BGs are taking casualties.

As you move into the outer corridor area you see anther Arab with another Ingram with a silencer attached as he exits a jewelry store. You also hear other distant gunfire down in another section of the mall.

"The mall is a cacophony of screams and gunfire now, with people running blindly towards exits instead of first looking where the danger was. A lot of those went down, mostly women. Some children."

What do you do? (Note the area police won't be there in time and won't show up until after the BGs are dead!) So it's all up to you two...