CONSIDERING AURORA. PART TWO

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ACTION AGAINST VIOLENCE

CONSIDERING AURORA – BE PREPARED FOR THE BATMAN COPYCAT!

 

Following up on yesterday’s post (Considering Aurora – Is it Time To Arm Ourselves Against the Armed Psychotic?), let’s chat a while about what I consider your number-one primo “weapon” against the “unanticipated,” surprise, spontaneous Psycho With a Gun.  Could happen soon in your school.  A relatively undersized weapon, this.  About six-inches from top-to-bottom, side-to-side.  Might be small but it’s formidable as hell and pretty damned hard to beat, ask me.

 

And what makes  this “weapon” awesome and out-fricking-standing is that you can take it with you anywhere.  And no metal detector or frisking technique can detect it and take it off you.  Which is important because, if you are considering arming yourself the next time you go see a Batman movie, or, if you fear an active shooter in your school, chances are your local theater, school, or sports arena will have security to take it off you.  Maybe even arrest your ass, even though your only goal is only survival.

 

How many guess you want, Dudes and Dudettes?  Chances are you already surmised your number one weapon is your brain.  Your Mind.  In my estimation – and I am dead serious – the most formidable self-preservation weapon that exists.

 

Problem is, there is a caveat.  The mind can also be a weapon that turns against you as it did at that doomed theater two midnights ago.  If not properly tuned or conditioned, your brain will without a doubt cause you to hesitate.  To freeze like the proverbial deer in the headlights!  The un-trained brain, in a life-or-death crisis when immediate, bold action is required, will drop back to punt when only a Hail Mary Pass is called for!  Why?  Because, as I stated yesterday, in a crisis, the mind will drop inanely to the first stage of the 5 Stages of Death and Dying:  Denial and Isolation!

 

In short, your mind will tell you, “Uhhm, Dog, what you are seeing and hearing aint really happening.  The gunshots and smoke are all part of this crazy, insane movie.” Or, in the case of students and teachers in a classroom:  “This is not happening.  This is some type of demonstration by the school.”   And you believe your brain and when the psycho gets to you, he discovers exactly what he knew he would find:  Another victim frozen-in-place.  Ready and almost willing to be shot!

 

BUT YOUR BRAIN CAN BE A COUNTERMEASURE BEAST!

 

But this will not happen if you condition or Spinal Tune your brain and body to respond immediately and dynamically to any spontaneous and unanticipated threat.  And, the thing is, it’s pretty easy and simple to do:

 

  1. Step One – Anticipate the Unanticipated.  A terrific way to condition your mind to respond to any sudden and spontaneous (surprise) combat situation when “combat” is the last thing you should expect (classroom, movie theater, sports arena, et al.) is to adopt The Four A’s Attitude in every situation.  If you do every time you are in public, at first it will take some conscious thought.  After a while, however, the 4-A’s will become automatic.  Your mind will do this for you in every situation. Force yourself to be Aware.  For instance, in a theater, make yourself aware of where the exits are.  Matter of fact, sit close to the exit.  Observe your surroundings and Assess the people and things close to you.  Are your gut feelings telling you something just doesn’t “feel” right?  Is there someone around you who seems “not right?”  Maybe dressed in bulky clothes which might be secreting weapons?   Or, in a workplace or a classroom, is there someone who has been undergoing deep and alarming changes in the way he or she has been acting?  Maybe he or she is unkempt where not too long ago he or she was a neat freak?  Maybe all he or she talks about now is guns and getting even?  Lord only knows, but, maybe you do! Maybe most importantly, Anticipate.  Tune your mind and your body by asking yourself the key Tuning Question:  What If?  What would I do, if “A” Happens?  In the case of a movie theater when you have a fear of a Batman Copy Cat Killer, you might ask yourself, “What would I do if there is a psycho-with-a-gun?”   Or, of course, in a classroom, you can condition your mind to respond quickly by asking yourself the same questions.   The 4th “A” is Action.  Whatever Action Plan your mind cooked up for you, automatically and immediately perform the act!
  2. If you’ve ever played baseball, think of this:  Your coach conditioned your mind to respond quickly and effectively by hitting balls at you and yelling at you “Man on second and third, one out, Jake, where do you throw it?  This is the simple action you are taking to condition your mind in the classroom!
  3. Step Two – The Action Plan.  Without hesitation, spring into action.  Do something!  Breathe Do Not Freeze.  I guarantee, the victims in Aurora froze and held their breath.  Or, vice versa.  The brain requires oxygenated blood in order to function.  Cycle Breathe (check out past posts to learn how to do this).  Whatever your Plan A was, so it.  If that doesn’t feel right, you should have a Plan B.  Go to that.  If you conjured up this plan while you were clear-minded, it should be okay.  If you are the shortstop in the above baseball scenario, you will glove the ground ball in a game and, with a man on first and second and one out, and you will automatically and immediately throw to the correct base because your mind has been conditioned, tuned, or trained, whichever term you prefer.

 

POSSIBLE ACTION PLANS SUGGESTED BY EXPERTS

  •  HIT THE DECK .  Flatten yourself in between the seats.  This is what “experts” suggest.  I do not like this.  Makes you an easy victim.
  • RUN IN A SERPENTINE ZIG ZAG FASHION.  Maybe.  Hard to do in a theater.  In a classroom, you can use desks, tables, chairs, other objects as barricades.  If you know the exits, this might work.
  • OBSERVE THE SHOOTER AND GET BEHIND HIM.  As the psycho advances, more likely than not, he will be riveted and focused on potential targets ahead.  Once he has passed a certain zone, if he hasn’t already spotted you, quickly move into that zone and hit an exit or lay low there.

 

THE HAMMER PLAN

  • ACTIVATE YOUR VERY OWN “ACTIVE COUNTERMEASURE ATTACK” ON THE SHOOTER!   If possible, which means, if you haven’t been already targeted and shot – and, believe me, I know this will go against your natural instincts and will require tremendous courage, but you need to become, more than anything, active, alive, and dynamic!  After all, the shooter anticipates his victims to be inactive, inert, and frozen in place.  He is counting on his victims failing to learn the lessons of Fort Hood, Columbine, Virginia Tech, and other massacre locales.  And the terrible thing is, the more victims he shoots and the more victims who freeze in place as he proceeds, the stronger his Psycho-Fantasy-Script Hardwires in his brain and the more confidence in his plan he becomes.
  • Ø REFUSE TO BE THE IDEAL VICTIM!  Cycle Breathe & get your brain functioning right now!  Move quickly and boldly into your action plan.  If it is escape, do it!  Get the hell out of there and call for help.  If, however, you cannot escape, well, then, be an active counter-attacker, not the ideal victim (the ideal victim holds his breath, says nothing, freezes for at least 2 to 3 seconds, after which he or she is confused, unable to act).  AS an Active Counter-Attacker, make a lot of noise, call for others to follow you to stop this crazy mother-fu**er.  Yes, get pissed.  Really pissed that this joker (literally) is trying to unceremoniously trying to snuff out your life as if you were an insect.  Throw objects at him.  Remember, he cannot be everywhere.  He cannot be shooting east and know what the hell is coming at him from the west.  Rush him.  Find something in the environment that you can use as a weapon.  Something on your person.

 

In the next post, “The Linear States of Mind in Combat.”  More on Mental Conditioning against the active shooter.

 

Until then, Stay Safe.

 

Hammer

 

 

 

 

 

 

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