July 21, 2012
Considering Aurora, Colorado
IS IT TIME TO ARM OURSELVES AGAINST ARMED PSYCHOTICS?
Thought I would contribute a thought or two about the ultra-insane-tragedy- massacre that literally exploded into the faces of innocent men, women, and children minutes after the start of the latest Batman movie in heretofore peaceful and serene Aurora, Colorado.
This has little to do with pure evil in our midst. Nothing to do with how an intelligent, no, brilliant, student with positive values can derail himself from the express train of his life. Can allow his life to spiral inexorably out of control. In time, if you care, you will learn from newspapers, vapid talk shows that pass themselves off as news services, and our vast social media what events materialized in his chosen path that nonplussed him, maybe vexed him into madness. I’m sure we will learn of financial setbacks exacerbated by frustrations getting or keeping employment. Maybe he was spurned by a woman. Who knows at this juncture?
Likely you will find that, whatever the events that caused something to turn over inside the mind of this brilliant and quiet man, are similar to events and dilemmas you have confronted in your life. Somehow you muddled, like I have, your way through and past this trauma, this event, and came through the other end. Reproving to yourself the axiom that if it doesn’t kill you, it will make you stronger.”
What this post IS about is: Since, more likely than not, there is one or more psychotics who will be impressed with Holmes’ methodology, his evil genius, and his commitment-to-the-slaughter of innocents. Violent Insanity, to some, is like a sport, or, better yet, a rabid pastime. These miscreants are likely motivated by the publicity and attention Holmes is achieving. So – and here is the point, which, and I apologize – it has taken me too long to arrive at – very likely there will be a Copycat Event coming, Sports Fans, I almost guarantee it.
SHOULD WE ARM OURSELVES AGAINST THE ACTIVE SHOOTER IN OUR SCHOOLS, THEATERS, MALLS, STADIUMS?
I have researched and studied “experts” who are publishing, as we speak, worthwhile and timely information on how to arm yourself against the Holmes-Maniac-Type. What kind of gun to carry. How to fashion yourself a gas mask. Rig yourself a bullet-resistant vest, etc. If you can get your hands on this material, do it. It cannot hurt you to be ready for anything down the line, just in case you are unlucky enough to be in the same place when what they call the Active Shooter strides through your school hallways, bursts into your classroom or theater and starts spraying bullets all over the place.
To me, however, none of these “Counter Terrorism Weapons” will do you a copper nickel’s worth of good if you don’t carry with you what I consider the absolute, stone-cold, number one weapon against any type of spontaneous, surprise, close quarters, and deadly attack. With this weapon you not only can save your life and maybe the lives of others (it does the active shooter no psychological good to attack just one or two people. He’s gotta have a crowd), but, and this is crucial, you can disrupt the fantasy script of the maniac, shatter the critical nexus between his mind and his eager trigger finger. In short, with this weapon, you can save the frigging day!
And here’s the thing. You and everybody else carry this weapon with you every minute of every day. Which is important. Why? Well, let me ask you this: how many of you have with you, let’s say at school, the equipment to jam together a bulletproof vest or a gas mask in the milliseconds it takes between the mind numbing instant the maniac crashes through the door and when he begins spraying rounds into your fellow moviegoers or classmates? Correct. Zero.
And one more thing. Even if you had with you the material to quickly put together a gas mask seconds after the villain flips a canister of tear gas into your room, there are only a small handful of people on this Earth who are trained well enough to jerry-rig survival gear in the midst of a lethal attack such as the one that went down in Aurora.
MENTAL CONDITIONING IS THE INSTANT WEAPON!
Please come back for the next post on our brain and how we can Spinal Tune – or train – our minds and body to respond instantaneously and effectively in the midst of all the terrible chaos that was in that dark and doomed theater in Colorado.
Remember this and never forget: It is natural in this type of crisis that our minds, if not properly tuned or conditioned, will react exactly the way the minds of the victims responded to the marauder wearing a gas mask and toting deadly weapons flipping a canister of gas into their midst.
Think of Kubler-Ross’ Five Stages of Death and Dying. Meaning the initial reaction is almost always Denial & Isolation (Denial/Anger/Bargaining/Depression and Acceptance). Sadly, it is absolutely natural not to believe and not to accept what one sees clearly right before his or her eyes! Ergo, “I thought he was part of the show,” is the response you will get from any survivor of a massacre such as the one in Aurora. Disbelief, denial motivates us to want to isolate and separate ourselves from this terrible reality looming in our faces, but the fact is the bad guy will continue spraying bullets and shotgun shells in your direction because, after all, what is he? He is an Active Shooter, and he is active, alive, and moving with preternatural purpose, and, if you are caught up in the Denial Stage of Death and Dying, what are you?
You are Inactive. You are inert. Cemented to your seat or where you stand, and, in the end, you are dead!
In the next emotional post, I will discuss how to condition your mind and your body to act as one. To become the perfectly Spinal Tuned Counter-Terrorism Weapon.
Until then, please stay safe.
Hammer