Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
- Oct 22, 2014
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I have the answer for you. I have said this answer repeatedly, but you refuse to hear it, so let me try a different approach.On the one hand we're told that "mental health" is the key to gun violence...and then on the other we're told that there's no way to effectively deal with mental health in regards to gun ownership.
Are ya getting the idea that gun huggers don't actually want to solve the problem??
Everyone wants to eliminate the conditions that make mass shootings so deadly. "Mental Health" is subjective and difficult to catch, much less put to use without due process. So, that is not guaranteed to have much of an effect at all.
What is the common condition of all mass shootings that we can eliminate right now that has a real opportunity to make sure mass shooters do not go on a spree uncontested?
Anyone?
Bueller?
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I think what you are alluding to is to arm everyone. That is not something I choose to see. it's one thing to arm trained, experience security guards with the current stress training but another to arm common people and put them directly into a war zone. And that is exactly the conditions of a mass shooting.
There are going to be three types of normal people attending at that mass shooting.
1. The ones that freeze and duck down. They become sitting ducks or targets.
2. Those that flee and are targets for a shorter time but the panic that comes with it feeds the insanity of the crowd. People get killed without being shot.
3. The Rexall Rangers who pull out their Iron and start blasting away. Chances are, they are going to kill bystanders in the process and they are still targets. These are the most dangerous of all the groups.
4. The Ones that have the ability to handle the stress and have the training and the skill set who might make a difference who also might be a target. There might be one or two of these in the crowd and they become targets for the Rexall Rangers and the bad guys. Unfortunately, they also become targets for the Cops as well.
Until you have been in received the proper training AND been in a real combat firefight you won't know which category you will fall into. This is why the best candidates for the trained, stress trained, skill set security are going to be ex combat troops. The second best group might be Cops but even cops might go their entire career without firing their weapon in anger so they may not be the best choice. And if you do find a Cop that has used his weapon 6 or more times in the line of duty, you just might be getting a glorified Rexall Ranger with a Badge.
I keep bringing up Stress Training. One of the things some of the Security Firms do is to require their Body Guards to go through stress training every month. Otherwise, they will revert back to the common person. Stress training along with other training means they react without thinking and do the right thing the first time. One without the other means mistakes are going to be made. A Combat Troop gets both. He gets a lot of both. A Swat Team Member gets a lots of both. And even then, mistakes do happen, just not as often is they did not have that training. Without that training, remind me to be out of town that day.
The answer might be more guns but with a qualifier. More guns in the hands of trained and current stress trained security guards.