One challenge that most drivers will face on a situation such as this is threat recognition. I reckon most drivers will view the mob as a driving threat to avoid, focusing their attention on not hitting perceived pedestrians.
With divided attention, recognizing a firearm threat could be challenging, which is why avoiding entering the crowd is the best tactic.
When that’s not possible, an armed threat on foot is way more maneuverable than driver and/or occupants in a vehicle, so it becomes the age old decision to dismount and fight or remain in a reasonably more protected vehicle with greater options, but with less maneuverability and increasing the chance for collateral damage as well as damage to, or immobilization of the vehicle.
If dismounted, there’s certainly drawbacks to that, mainly the loss of protection, potential for the mob to overwhelm, and the potential for LE to determine you’ve now escalated the situation.
With the continued escalation of actions by these mobs, my threat assessment has to back way up in the timeline so that I can avoid the mob entirely.
Luckily, we haven’t have a need or desire go into AUS or SAT in a long time, so that’s a huge threat mitigator right there. We had a choice to pass thru AUS on our way to Round Rock last weekend or add a few minutes and bypass AUS entirely, so we we chose to mitigate the threat and avoided AUS entirely.
With divided attention, recognizing a firearm threat could be challenging, which is why avoiding entering the crowd is the best tactic.
When that’s not possible, an armed threat on foot is way more maneuverable than driver and/or occupants in a vehicle, so it becomes the age old decision to dismount and fight or remain in a reasonably more protected vehicle with greater options, but with less maneuverability and increasing the chance for collateral damage as well as damage to, or immobilization of the vehicle.
If dismounted, there’s certainly drawbacks to that, mainly the loss of protection, potential for the mob to overwhelm, and the potential for LE to determine you’ve now escalated the situation.
With the continued escalation of actions by these mobs, my threat assessment has to back way up in the timeline so that I can avoid the mob entirely.
Luckily, we haven’t have a need or desire go into AUS or SAT in a long time, so that’s a huge threat mitigator right there. We had a choice to pass thru AUS on our way to Round Rock last weekend or add a few minutes and bypass AUS entirely, so we we chose to mitigate the threat and avoided AUS entirely.