Surviving a Club Shooting
Lockjaw
Nevada
I have never been in a shooting with mass casualties, but I wanted to share my experience at a nightclub I was at where there was a shooting. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw there was an argument between a customer and a security guy. The customer was shown the door, but resisted every step of the way saying he did nothing wrong. He finally went to his car. I have no idea whether the business was right or the customer was right. About two minutes later, gunshots started ringing out. Everyone in the club starts running, hiding under tables, and lying prone. You could hear glass shattering and the whole front of the building taking fire. I jumped behind a couch in the section reserved for the VIP high rollers. I must have laid on the floor for four minutes, but it seemed like an hour. There was silence and then more shots rang out. Someone screamed that the shooter was back and going to come inside and kill everyone. Panic ensued. Some of the women ran and hid in the washrooms thinking that it was the safest spot if they could block the door. I laid on the floor asking God whether this was going to be the end for me. My family would learn I was murdered on the dirty carpet of a nightclub.
Eventually the shooting stopped and dozens of police cars showed up. I finally knew it was safe to get off the floor when police walked in with their flashlights and guns drawn. Everyone slowly got up off of the floor and emerged from their hiding spots. The nightclub closed for the night and kicked everyone out after they had a minute to calm down. Some of the women were screaming and crying. There were bullet holes and shattered glass at the front of the building. Nobody was dead or shot, but some people suffered injuries. A guy either broke his leg or snapped his ankle trying to run for cover. He had to be carried out by friends and taken to the hospital. One of the waitresses was bleeding from glass that had been sprayed on her. From everything I heard, the perpetrator got away before the police arrived. I never heard whether they tracked him down with security footage from inside the club.
This experience shook me up. I still go to nightclubs and strip clubs, but I am much more selective now than before. I take into consideration the type of clientele and the neighborhood, whereas before I didn’t give it a millisecond of thought. I would rather go to an Electric Cowboy type place than an electronic dance club full of drug addicts and Russian gangsters. I would rather go to a white strip club in the far out suburbs than a twerk club frequented by inner city African-Americans. I’d hate to lose my life just because I wanted to go out for a drink on a Saturday night. This is the new reality in America.
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Your story about being in a bar where there was a shooting is pretty light weight. I was sitting in Jumbo's bar in Detroit one night in the 1980's. It was the main hooker bar in Detroit. A pimp was wanting his ho to go with him out to the parking lot. She wouldn't go so he pulled his pistol. People all started to leave. He shot her in the leg. I just sat there, then I realized I didn't want to be the only guy in the bar, so I went out to the parking lot. There was a shot fired in the parking lot, so everyone went back in the bar.
It seems an off duty cop was in the bar. He followed the pimp out to the parking lot and the pimp got in his car. The cop told him to get out of the car, he didn't, so the cop shot him in the leg.
Because a cop shot someone, they made us all stay in the bar for 2 hours while they got everyone's statement. I gave mine, and I was asked if I had anything more to add. I said I'd be pleased to testify in court, because I have a right to sit in a bar and not have shots fired.
The pimp and ho went to the hospital together and made up.
Have you noticed we haven't had any muslims hijack a plane and fly it into a building in 20 years? It's not because they take away your fingernail clippers. It wouldn't work a second time. Churches all have armed guards. I'm sure most strip clubs have armed employees. I feel so safe I usually don't bring my gun.
The later it gets, the drunker people get, and the more drunk people there are. Drunk people are more likely to get into fights, more likely to take offense at some remark or action, and more likely to act on their impulses.
Another anxiety inducing thought I sometimes have is if I were to be stabbed or killed in VIP and the customer leaves before anyone notices.
Substitute that for high fear/fear of looking afraid, lack of self control, and low alcohol/drug tolerance and I agree.
I've worked security at two SCs, been shot at twice, sustained multiple minor injuries, and watched 10 clubs get closed down due to 'woke' urbanization.
Not suprisingly, 99% of this starts with allowing (what passes for) music promoting guns, drugs, money, and abusing bitches to be played non-stop at ridiculous volumes.
What *is* amazing is most strippers' fear of working there while at the same time obliviously doing everything they can to create the abusive/life-threatening/criminal environment they're in.
(Btw, I'm placing full blame on management, not the strippers, and the last paragraph was not aimed directly at Yum or her comment.)
After I joined TUSCL I started reading about TUSCLers having a good time on dayshift at certain clubs - after a while of being on TUSCL I decided to start trying dayshift visits and w/ time started to prefer dayshift visits mainly for the better-mileage/dancer-attention (and the clubs I went to had decent to good dayshifts).
Dayshift visits tend to vastly minimize violence in the clubs but of course there are never any guarantees – it also seems that a lot of these club-shootings happen in the parking-lot – so I’d say one should be more careful when walking into a club or walking out – the black-dives I hit also have security-pat-downs at the door with rare-exceptions – many custies complain about them and I don’t like being patted-down either but in the big-picture it’s obviously a good thing and a good mitigater that even if it’s not 100%-foolproof it’s pretty-close.