Realistic Defense, LLC presents a comprehensive one-day Active Shooter Response course designed to help everyday citizens, employees, business owners, managers, and responsible armed citizens develop a personal survival plan before an emergency occurs.

When an active shooter incident begins, there may be little or no time to develop a plan. Decisions may have to be made in seconds, under extreme stress, and with limited information. This course focuses on understanding your options, recognizing changing circumstances, and making calculated decisions based on the principles of RUN, HIDE, FIGHT.

The goal is simple: Develop your plan now. Train to survive.

The course uses the Run, Hide, Fight framework as the foundation for active shooter survival. Participants will learn that these are not necessarily rigid, sequential steps. Circumstances can change rapidly, and the safest response will depend on your location, the threat, available exits, other people around you, and the information you have at that moment.

When a safe escape route is available, creating distance from the threat may provide the best opportunity for survival. Students will discuss situational awareness, recognizing exits and alternate routes, avoiding dangerous areas, and making decisions without unnecessarily moving toward a threat.

When escape is not a reasonable option, participants will learn considerations for selecting a safer location, securing or barricading an area when possible, reducing visibility and exposure, maintaining awareness, and preparing for changing conditions.

Hiding is more than simply getting out of sight—it involves making deliberate decisions that improve your chances of remaining safe until you can escape or law enforcement reaches you.

If escape and effective concealment are no longer possible and you are confronted with an immediate threat to life, you may have to physically defend yourself. The course addresses the mindset, commitment, teamwork, and decision-making considerations associated with a last-resort response.

The emphasis throughout the course is survival, sound judgment, and responsible decision-making—not seeking out or pursuing the threat.

Participants will receive instruction and participate in practical exercises addressing:

• What Constitutes an Active Shooter Incident — Understanding the nature and characteristics of these rapidly evolving events.
• Developing a Personal Survival Plan — Identifying what you will do before you ever find yourself in an emergency.
• Run, Hide, Fight Decision-Making — Understanding your options and recognizing when circumstances require you to change your response.
• Calculated Responses Based on Sound Planning — Replacing panic and indecision with preparation and deliberate action.
• Situational Awareness — Developing the habit of identifying exits, potential safe areas, obstacles, and other environmental factors.
• Developing a Combat Mindset — Building the mental determination to continue thinking, acting, and problem-solving during a crisis.
• How NOT to Become a Victim — Recognizing that survival begins with awareness, preparation, and decisive action.
• Interaction with Law Enforcement — Understanding what to expect when responding officers arrive and how your actions may be perceived during a rapidly evolving incident.
• Considerations for Armed Citizens — Discussing the additional responsibilities and complications faced by handgun license holders or other lawfully armed citizens during an active shooter incident.
• Considerations for Unarmed Citizens — Developing realistic survival options when you do not have access to a firearm or other defensive equipment.
• Self Aid and Buddy Aid — Medical considerations following a violent incident, including priorities when you or another person has suffered a traumatic injury.
• Scenario-Based Training — Applying the concepts learned throughout the day to realistic decision-making exercises.

Knowledge alone does not create preparedness.

The course concludes with scenario-based exercises that require participants to evaluate a developing situation and make decisions based on the principles covered during training.

Scenarios are designed to reinforce situational awareness, decision-making, communication, Run/Hide/Fight concepts, interaction with others, and the importance of having a plan before an emergency occurs.

These exercises give students an opportunity to identify weaknesses in their existing plans and develop a more realistic understanding of how they may respond under stress.

EVERYONE.

You do not have to be a law enforcement officer, security professional, or experienced shooter to benefit from this training.

If you spend time in offices, schools, churches, restaurants, shopping centers, entertainment venues, public buildings, or other public spaces, you should consider what you would do if violence suddenly occurred.

Business owners and managers should consider:

What is our company's plan?

How will employees be notified? What options do employees have? Where are the exits? What areas can be secured? What happens after the immediate threat? Does everyone understand the plan?

Employees should ask:

What is MY personal survival plan?

A company's emergency plan is important, but every individual must be prepared to make decisions when circumstances change.

Handgun license holders and other armed citizens face additional considerations. Carrying a firearm does not make you a law enforcement officer and does not automatically mean confronting an attacker is the appropriate response. Armed citizens should understand how their actions may affect their personal safety, the safety of others, and their interaction with responding law enforcement officers.

Unarmed citizens need a plan as well. Survival is not dependent upon carrying a firearm. Awareness, movement, escape, effective concealment, communication, medical knowledge, and the willingness to act can all play important roles in surviving a violent incident.

Every workplace and facility is different.

Realistic Defense, LLC also offers private, on-site Active Shooter Response training for businesses and organizations. Training can be adapted to your actual office, building, or facility so employees and managers can evaluate considerations specific to their environment.

Contact us to discuss bringing a private course to your organization.

Location: ETTS — Waxahachie, Texas
Duration: One-Day Course
Prerequisites: None
Equipment: All necessary training equipment is provided

No previous firearms, tactical, medical, or law enforcement training is required.

During an active shooter incident, you may not have time to figure out what to do.

Preparation begins beforehand.

Learn your options. Develop your personal survival plan. Understand RUN, HIDE, FIGHT. Practice making decisions under pressure.

TRAIN TO SURVIVE.

Website: www.realisticdefense.com
Email: jeff@realisticdefense.com
Phone: 214-728-3566

Class location information:

- ETTS in Waxahachie

- One-day course

- No prerequisite training required

- All necessary equipment provided

We also offer the option for on-site specific training. Contact us about bringing a private course to your group, office or building.

Realistic Defense, LLC

www.realisticdefense.com

jeff@realisticdefense.com

214 728-3566