Oct. 25, 2025
Holiday Travel Safety Essentials
Send us a text Crowded parking lots, long drives, and packed restaurants can turn small lapses into big problems. We break down a calm, practical approach to holiday safety that starts with the law, carries through your errands, and ends with a smart return home. No fearmongering—just clear steps that help you spot risk early, make better choices, and stay in control. We begin by making sense of reciprocity and constitutional carry so you know where your permit is valid, what restrictions ex...
Crowded parking lots, long drives, and packed restaurants can turn small lapses into big problems. We break down a calm, practical approach to holiday safety that starts with the law, carries through your errands, and ends with a smart return home. No fearmongering—just clear steps that help you spot risk early, make better choices, and stay in control.
We begin by making sense of reciprocity and constitutional carry so you know where your permit is valid, what restrictions exist, and how to avoid accidental crimes across state lines. With a reliable app, you can check permit recognition, magazine limits, and open carry rules in seconds. From there we get hands-on: fuel, fluids, tires, and a basic first aid kit that covers real-world scrapes without overcomplication. For gun owners, we explain how to secure a firearm in a vehicle, why trigger coverage matters, and how clothing prevents exposure that could be charged as brandishing.
Situational awareness ties it all together. Using Jeff Cooper’s color codes, we show how to live in relaxed alertness without losing the joy of the season. You’ll learn the small habits that pay off in parking lots—picking well-lit spots, avoiding blind corners, scanning before you unlock—and the in-store tactics that keep you moving: recognize choke points, track exits, and keep kids in sight. We clarify the difference between cover and concealment, then map a family plan with a simple action word, defined roles, and a rally point if you get separated. At restaurants, choose seating that preserves options and sight lines. When you arrive home, use your garage as a barrier, keep entry lighting and alarms working for you, and lean on doorbell cameras, peepholes, and delay tactics to control the doorway.
The throughline is simple: lawful carry, thoughtful prep, and awareness that scales to the moment. Subscribe for more practical training conversations, share this with someone traveling for the holidays, and leave a review with your top safety tip so we can feature it next time.
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00:00 - Welcome And Holiday Setup
01:51 - Reciprocity And Carry Law Basics
03:22 - Apps, Constitutional Carry, And Legal Nuance
05:27 - Vehicle Prep And Road Readiness
07:01 - First Aid Kits And Everyday Care
08:31 - Firearm Storage And Vehicle Security
11:46 - Clothing, Concealment, And Brandishing Risks
13:37 - Cooper’s Color Codes Explained
16:18 - Parking Lot Safety Tactics
19:12 - Store Awareness And Family Safety
21:50 - Cover Versus Concealment Clarified
23:29 - Family Action Words And Roles
25:59 - Restaurant Seating And Exit Strategy
28:38 - Year‑Round Awareness Mindset
29:52 - Arriving Home And Garage Security
31:50 - Home Hardening And Alarm Best Practices
34:40 - Doors, Cameras, And Delay Tactics
36:47 - Closing Wishes And Training Resources
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Hi, welcome to the Armed Guardian Podcast, season one, episode seven.
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Today, David and I will be talking about situational awareness and travel safety for the holidays.
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So sit back and enjoy today's episode.
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Uh, it's gonna be a little light, quick episode for us, and um, we hope that remember a couple things while you're out with your family or traveling or shopping, and just keep aware of your your situational uh awareness and we'll dive on into the content.
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Hey, how are you doing today, David?
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Doing pretty good, Mr.
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Braun.
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How are you doing?
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Doing good.
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Uh, you ready for the turkey next week?
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I am good, I am, and the dressing and all the else that comes along with it, and the 15 pounds we're gonna add on over this next couple of months with uh Thanksgiving and Christmas with all the food and stuff.
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So, yeah, I'm I'm all ready for it.
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Yep, and the Christmas candy and cider and and all that stuff that's gonna linger around for a little bit after the holidays because now you got to get rid of it after you cooked it all or purchased it, purchased it all.
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So yes, or the decorations, but I think my favorite Christmas thing is probably the music.
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Yeah, uh I enjoy the music.
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Music's my uh go-to, so uh I really enjoy listening to the music.
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And you only get it about a month out of the year.
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I sometimes I'll stretch that, but uh thankful for YouTube whenever I feel the ear urge to listen to something.
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Uh my favorite Christmas is Mannheim's team.
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So uh if I ever feel the urge to want to listen to something like that, great for uh YouTube.
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Oh yeah, yeah.
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I love the Mannheim theme.
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Great, great Christmas.
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Yeah.
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Uh okay.
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Well, today we want to talk about travel safety.
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We've got a few topics here that uh we're gonna branch out on, and uh, like I said, this is gonna be a light, quick episode, but uh we just uh wanted to highlight some of the things for people to be aware of.
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Um, so what we got up first, David?
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All right, so first we've got the reciprocity, um, which is basically different states honor other states.
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Um for instance, we live in Georgia, Georgia honors Florida's uh permit, and Florida honors Georgia's.
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Um, same with the other states that surround us.
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And there's there's other states that do that as well.
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And then so a lot of states they have reciprocity with with several states around.
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Um so when we're talking about reciprocity, basically it's the states agreeing to honor each other's permits, right?
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Um so we need to make sure that we have that our permits are honored by the state if we're traveling and going to a state, or and we also need to be up to date on that state's laws as well.
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And even if we're going to a local area, even the local area is law.
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And Mr.
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Brian has a good resource here that he'd like to tell y'all about when it comes to checking reciprocity.
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Yeah, uh, one of the you know, of course, we're USCCA uh instructors, but they've got a great app uh in both the iTunes and Android app store, but uh it's USCCA reciprocity, and I'll try to put the link in the show notes for for that.
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But um it's a great little app you can put in your home permit, and then it will um allow it'll show you where other states have uh recognized your your permit from Georgia, uh for in our situation or wherever you're from, and then it'll also actually give you the breakdown of law summaries or even some details on different uh laws for that particular state.
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Just knowing also that some states that do have reciprocity, there are some that have limited reciprocity, where uh you know you may can only carry a 10-round magazine instead of uh whatever magazine you want to carry.
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Uh, some states have ammo restrictions, just knowing, like with us with Georgia and Florida.
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Georgia, we can open carry.
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Florida, you cannot open carry, even with a permit.
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Uh, so just knowing those laws and how they will apply to you, uh, and being a well responsibly armed uh citizen whenever you're traveling, it'll just stand out and give the gun community, uh the people around us that hey, we know what we're doing and uh we're trying, we're abiding by the laws and we're doing everything safely.
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So that's pretty much on the reciprocity.
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Just uh there's a couple other apps out there, but uh USCCA's uh stays pretty on top of keeping theirs updated with the law.
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Constitutional carry is also something you'll want to consider.
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Um, you may be in a state that has constitutional carry, and you go to another state that maybe doesn't have constitutional carry yet.
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There's currently 27 states that have some sort of constitutional permittless carry.
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Uh the others uh you have to have a permit to carry.
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So just knowing what you can and can't do uh will keep you and your family safe, money in your pocket, and you with your family instead of spending the couple of days or spending time in a local county facility.
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Uh when we're traveling, David, um what are some things we need to be aware of or or think about uh with our vehicle as far as traveling?
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Oh yes.
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Um a lot of this is just simple stuff like make sure gas is in your tank, check your gas gate, you know, make sure you got to get enough gas to get where you're going.
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Um you know, maybe plan your route so you know where your gas stations are, restaurants, stops, anything like that.
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Yeah.
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Checking your engine oil, uh, make sure your car's got water in it for any freeze in the winter time.
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Yeah.
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Um you've got a backup for small leaks or something where you can replace that.
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You know, if you pour the oil in the vehicle, a gallon of uh pre-mixed tooling or even just water for your emergency situation.
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Absolutely.
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And water's really great because not only can it help you if you put it in your car, but if you have a jug of water, you can even drink.
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I mean, you know, considering it's drinking water, you can even drink it.
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So that's a good thing to have.
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Also, checking your tire pressure, make sure your tire treads right, make sure your spare tires aired up, you know.
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Um, people don't think about that.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Make sure you got a spare tire in there, make sure that you know the jacks, all the things you need to advance your tires there.
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But yeah, it it's real bad when you pull out your spare tire and it's flat.
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Yeah, real bad feeling.
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Or are you know you've got a spare in there, but you go looking for your jack and it's not there, missing, or or broken, and uh that's not the time you want to realize that I should have checked this out a little bit before we left or something.
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So, Mr.
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Brian, what do you think about first aid kids?
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Is that something that you would want to carry as you're traveling?
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Yeah, because you know, you even know, not necessarily necessarily for uh pulling up on a major accident or anything.
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How many times have you been at a park uh or at the store and you've gotten maybe a kid fell down, scraped their knee, you've gotten a tent uh you know, in a door jam or something, uh, just some small cut or something.
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Uh little small first aid kit uh would be do a wonder, you know, give you the keep things clean to keep it covered, and using the supplies in there, the antibiotic cream to help fight infection and things like that.
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Uh, you don't have to have a uh a major large uh recon kit to have a first aid kit, but no, just something in a small shoebox size case or something.
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They they buy you know they have generic ones at Walmart, uh Costco, Sands, and stuff like that.
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So it's uh something just something small for the everyday nicks and scratches.
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Uh if you want to amp up and have things for tourniquet and stuff, which I would recommend, but it's not necessary.
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But just uh having the basics to cover the everyday nicks and cuts and scrapes that we tend to come across uh while you're traveling and stuff.
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What about guns, David?
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How how should we cons uh consider our our gun safety while we're traveling?
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Um yes.
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Uh I would say a few things.
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Make sure your gun's secure in your in your vehicle while you're traveling, um, whether it be you know, glove box, however you secure your firearm, uh make sure it's secure.
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Also make sure we're, you know, as we're holiday shopping or moving from place to place, you know, we're getting out going in gas stations, restaurants, eat whatever.
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We're we have that firearm secured in such a way that it's concealed if it's left in our vehicle um so nobody breaks into in our vehicle to steal it.
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Right.
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But it should be secure anyways, make sure it's locked up so so kids or or somebody that doesn't need it um can get to it.
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Yeah.
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Uh one one thing talking about the guns in the vehicle.
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Uh I get for just uh traveling where you're going somewhere, uh get out of the vehicle and you're taking your gun with you, these little magnetic uh securement devices.
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Um uh vote for something like that I would I'm fine.
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Uh I would really prefer somebody to have any anytime you have a holster or a storage for a gun to have uh whatever it's got to cover the trigger guard.
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So there's no chance of any negligent discharge or anything like that.
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But yeah, you wouldn't want to leave your uh concealed carry pistol on that magnetic uh holder in the against the console while you run into the gas station or into the restaurant or something, because then that's going to open up.
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Somebody walks by and are they're intently looking and find something.
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Uh you know, cover it up, you know, use a towel or a sheet or uh something to cover it up if you need to leave something in the a holster in your vehicle where you can't take it in.
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Um anything else on the I think that's that's it on the firearms as far as from a traveling standpoint.
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Um looking at another thing, you know, wearing appropriate clothing, both for area and you know, we're talking about traveling with the gun or with a weapon inside your vehicle, but also um if you get out of your vehicle and your weapon is on you, wear the appropriate clothing.
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Um you know, if if you're where you need to, you know, just wear the appropriate clothing, I guess, to to conceal your firearm or to be able to access it if you need to.
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And also, you know, you may be traveling a long way, and I know down south here it's relatively warm out right now, but if you're traveling up north, um it's getting it's probably gonna get considerably colder.
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Right.
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So make sure you have the appropriate clothing for traveling across those long distances where the weather may fluctuate pretty drastically.
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Yeah, yeah, I think so.
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Um just uh because you also gotta watch out too with uh locations as you're traveling that uh some states, if you expose that weapon, even if it's concealed, it's a it's called brandishing in some states where it can be um a chargeable offense if uh your weapon's displayed and they have a strict concealed carry uh law in their state.
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So just again follow going back to knowing the laws of where you're gonna be traveling, where you may be getting out of.
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Just uh you know, true purpose of concealed carry is being concealed, being that gray man where you're you're armed, you're ready to act if needed, but nobody else knows what you're you're doing.
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So okay.
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Anything else on the traveling safety, David, that you can think of?
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Not that I can think of.
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I think that covers most of you know the travel safety.
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I'm sure there's probably other things we could talk about, but I think that's that's a good portion of it.
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Um, let's talk about situational awareness now.
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Okay, Mr.
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Brian.
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How about uh parking lot safety?
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A lot of people are going holiday shopping um Black Friday and after you know, getting their Christmas gifts and yeah, whatever.
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Um how do we need to look at that when we're pulling into parking lots?
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Well, uh, before we jump right into that, I think you know we we talk in our classes, and there's a universal uh color code for your situational awareness that uh Colonel Jeff Cooper came up with, and maybe we should review this here real quick.
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But uh, you know, as we are armed citizens, we should always remain in what they call condition yellow, uh, just because we're armed and we're carrying a firearm.
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But uh there's four different uh color codes.
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Some there has I've heard of one that's uh has a fifth, but uh that's one that I don't I don't use all that much.
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It's a pretty serious uh uh color code.
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If if you're in that color code, you're you're against everything at that moment.
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But um condition white, uh that's where you're uh unaware, uh, and that's perfect thing that we're trying to bring awareness to in this uh holiday travel uh episode that we're doing.
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We don't want to be in condition white because that means that we're not paying attention to our surroundings.
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We may be caught up in getting the kids out of the vehicle, uh putting things in the car or getting them from the car, taking them to the house.
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Uh it's just no, not being aware, not paying attention to our surroundings.
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Um conditioned yellow is no where we're aware of our surroundings.
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We're not we're we're diligent, but we're not hyper diligent.
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Uh, we're not paranoid.
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It's just no, we're we're looking around, we're seeing things, we're noticing things, but uh we're able to still continue on, even you know, if you're in a group of people, you're able to be in condition yellow looking around, but still carry on conversations with your friends, family that you may be with.
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Uh so that's conditioned yellow.
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You got conditioned orange, which is something's alerted you, you're a heightened uh awareness of uh alertness, and you know, you've seen something that doesn't look right, but it's not something that you need to act on, maybe just yet.
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So you're at this point, you're looking at um what are my options to escape what I saw?
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Do I need to retreat?
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Do I need to go a different way?
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And then we've got condition red where you're acting, you know, you've walked into something or walked up onto something, and your only response is to defend yourself.
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You can't run, you can't necessarily hide, possibly, and you're having to draw your weapon, verbal commands, pepper spray or or whatever is required to get out of that uh that threat that you're in.
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So just remembering those uh four color codes we talk about, we just want to stay in condition yellow.
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But going back to our first topic, the parking lot safety, as you're pulling into a parking lot, shopping center, gas station, even your own driveway, uh well, being aware of your surroundings, what's going on around you?
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Uh, is there anybody standing in a not normal place?
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Uh, is there somebody looking distraught?
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Uh you know, things like that.
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Uh, we want to be aware of that.
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And if we see something, especially at a shopping center, you know, go to another entrance or you know, go to another spot in the uh parking lot.
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Uh, sometimes we get our vehicles, we get pretty um uh pretty cautious over our vehicles.
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We don't like parking next to other vehicles because we don't want ours to get dinged and stuff, but you don't want to put yourself out in the furthest part of the parking lot just because you don't want your vehicle to get uh hit, dinged, or anything like that, because then you know you've got that distance to travel that you're opening yourself up for a potential attack, as well as if you're pulling into a parking lot and a parking space before you unlock your car, uh you're looking around, and then as you get out of your vehicle, you're looking into the vehicle next to you just to see if anybody's in it, uh, or you know, someone may be laying down in the backseat or something looking for an attack, uh, with just some things to not be paranoid about, but just uh little indicators to watch for, uh, things to look for to keep yourself and your safety up.
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You got anything else on parking lot safety?
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Uh yeah, um, if you're a few things.
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Um at night, if you're going shopping at night, parking in well-lit areas um where the lots are pretty well.
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Um, make sure you have a flashlight with you.
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Uh also, um, the other thing is avoid parking lots that have don't have a way out there that may have little choke points through them um when you go into into an area where it's locked in.
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Now, sometimes yeah, parking garages would be a good example of that, absolutely.
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Um, and you may not be able to avoid those.
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Um, or you may they may come up on you before you even realize it.
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But if you can, I would be very careful avoiding blind spots or choke points where you can't get out.
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Um and if you do have to have to go in a place like that where it's not easy to get out, you need to be thinking about alternate means to to um get away from a threat.
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Um, so that's that's the basic thing with parking lot safety.
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Also, you know, even talking about parking around people, you know, I think that's a good thing, parking around other cars, but also with parking around other cars, um, or you know, where the majority of people are parking, also comes to creating blind spots like that.
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So as you're walking through a parking lot, making sure you know you're keeping an eye out, maybe keeping a distance from any blind spots you can see.
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So that way if something happens, um, you have some reactionary time to do what you need to do to flee or um whatever you may need to do.
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Yeah, and that's feeding off of that.
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Uh, you know, we don't want to walk in the middle of the alleys uh as we walk down the parking lot, but we don't want to walk right up next to another vehicle uh for several reasons.
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One for the blind spots.
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Uh again, no, this is a holiday, busy holiday season.
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A lot of people are out shopping, uh getting ready for family, getting ready to go on vacation or on a trip.
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And their minds can be elsewhere.
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If you're walking right up next to the vehicles in a parking lot and someone throws it in reverse or you know, pulls through a parking spot, they may not be aware.
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So it's just that visual as you're walking up behind somebody looking into the vehicle, uh, making uh kind of reading what they're doing from their body language.
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And then also, you don't want to be right up against it because you don't want to clear the corner of a vehicle and somebody be squatting down and wait, uh looking for somebody coming by.
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So just some uh good uh tips for parking lot safety.
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Um, what about store safety, David?
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Uh we know we we're we're in the parking lot, we've gotten out of our vehicle, uh, or we're coming out of the store uh on our transition from the parking lot to the store and from the store back to the parking lot.
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Uh what's some things that we should should do uh and even inside the store?
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What are what are some guidelines that we should abide by?
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And really, you know, when it comes to this, a lot of these things kind of piggyback off each other.
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The same safety situational awareness we use for traveling, we're gonna use in the parking lot, and then as we move into the store, um you know, we're still trying to avoid blind spots, you know.
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Um knowing that keeping an eye, you know, you're gonna have people around you, you can't avoid that, especially in the holiday season in the in a store.
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They're gonna be close by.
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That's just part of going shopping.
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If that's an issue, you might want to uh online shop.
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But as you're as you're moving around, just knowing the people that are around you, you know, um keeping an idea of where they're at, you know, what they're doing, um you know identifying any any threats or safety issues, also knowing you're knowing um of course you know the way in, but are there other ways in?
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Are there ways out?
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Where are the emergency exits?
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Yeah um you know, where are those located?
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The aisles, you know, how you know what kind of a lot of holiday shopping.
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I know there's a lot of stuff in the aisles, they've got a lot of like the little island, right?
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Um got merchandise and stuff like that.
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So so making sure once again you're not moving into a choke point area or or something like that to where you can't get out or you can't um yeah, a big thing, no, just uh aware being aware, you know, looking around, looking for those uh places of what happens if uh come into uh uh you're in a shopping mall and you go in uh to X store XYZ.
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There's that one main entrance out of the main part of the mall.
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Uh you go in there, you shopping around.
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Somebody comes in with the intent to do something badly.
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What are your options?
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Where's your hiding points for cover concealment?
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And where should you uh again look for the exit points, uh looking for places to to go to and to escape that situation.
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Um, also with the store safety, uh while a lot of times you know parents will take their children, sometimes their infant children with them.
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Uh they'll have them in the buggy.
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Don't be so don't get so caught up in the shopping that you're not paying attention to of your little one or the toddlers uh you know that are aren't able aren't in the buggy, but you know, are old enough to walk beside it or something.
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Just paying attention to them and the surroundings around them because in the past few years, uh more so in the holidays, I've heard stories and read stories where children have been attempted to be abducted because the parents are busy shopping, picking something up, or trying to get help for an item.
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So just just be aware of of that with your your kids with uh anything else on store safety.
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Uh yeah, just one thing I wanted to touch on.
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You mentioned cover and consumment, just to clarify what we mean by cover and consumment.
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I think this is uh good thing for most people to know.
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Um most people do know this actually, but but there are people that don't, and this is just to clarify what we mean by cover and consumment.
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Cover is anything that will stop a bullet.
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Um an engine block, uh old oak tree that's like eighty six foot wide.
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Yeah.
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Um block wall that's filled with concrete.
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Uh those would be ideas of cover.
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Right.
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Um, you know, some of those may or may not work in different situations, depending.
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But as a general rule, that would be covered.
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Silmet would be like um uh sheetrock walls, mattress, mattress.
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Uh it's something that just hides you.
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It's not uh that's the only protection that uh concealment is doing is it's hiding your image from the view of somebody else, basically.
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But as a general rule, bullets can still penetrate concealment.
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Yeah.
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So just wanted to clear that up also, and when this kind of goes with our next topic, we'll we're gonna talk about restaurant safety, but I think this one actually kind of covers a little bit of all of the above, and that's um having a safety plan in place if you have a spouse, if you have uh uh children or or maybe family members that that are with you, um, maybe that you care for or whatever the the case may be.
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Right, have a plan and let them know.
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Um, you know, if you say get down, they know to get down or to move, you know.
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That way when you say something, they know that they're looking for danger around them and they're trying to get out, get to an exit, um whatever, you know.
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A duress or action word.
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Uh you know, once that word is put out, they're they're alert, they're uh put into that condition yellow or orange, uh, but then they also uh are aware of what's going on, that you're not trying to push somebody and and they don't know what's going on because you didn't have a code word or duress word or something.
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So just having that uh duress or action word that uh should be once that's spoken, that oh boy, something's about to happen, we need to act.
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Uh we have our plan if this word is spoken, what we're going to do, what each person's responsibility is, and go from there.
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And I would say, even going back to your other thing, you know, we're moving from condition yellow at the point we hear that word or get down or whatever, we should immediately elevate condition yellow to condition orange or condition red, depending on the situation.
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Um, so you know, having that in place to where the people around you, family, whatever it may be, they know that what to do and how to respond right when when something like that happens.
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Yeah.
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And and if you're out shopping, uh both parking lot and store, be have a have somebody watching note.
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Uh, say you have a teenage child or your your spouse, uh, you're looking at something kids, something for the kids, and or you've got your eye on something, having the other partner or friend that you may be with looking around at the surroundings while you're so involved in that object or getting help for that uh to you know, get help to see something in the shelf or something, just uh play off of each other if you have multiple people.
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And I would recommend, if possible, having a buddy or going with somebody um to kind of be as your your six person watching your six.
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So absolutely.
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I think uh I mean, you know, not to bring back our our old military days, but I mean, you know, when you were in the army or military, you had a battle buddy, yeah.
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