bigbear77
03-11-2009, 09:07 PM
Excerpted from a write-up of a class taught by Lt. Col Dave Grossman. The full article is well worth the read, IMO.
Full article here: http://www.killology.com/art_buckeye.htm
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Four Steps to a Bullet-Proof Mind
Grossman spent the day walking us through the four steps to a Bullet Proof Mind:
1. Understanding the magnitude of the threat.
Grossman struck hard on this theme from the minute the all-day seminar began, setting the stage with two powerful questions:
"Can we take the lessons learned in blood and lives at Columbine and the World Trade Center and apply them so we'll never take this [path] again, or do we have to wait until our kids die?"
and
"Could we agree our responsibility is to keep our kids and grandkids safe?"
To set up his next theme, Grossman delivered the first of what became throughout the day a host of riveting real-life case-studies, recounting the story of a Secret Service agent who took a .22 round in a non-vital area during the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, yet collapsed, not because he was incapacitated but because Hollywood had taught him that he was supposed to fall down when he got shot. Thus his second step to a Bullet-Proof Mind:
2. Don't focus on the minority who were hurt.
Grossman advised that "stuff you think you know about combat can destroy you. ...Basing what you think you know about combat on Hollywood is like basing what you know about eloquence on Disney's 'Dumbo'."
"Hollywood loves the pity party," Grossman observed. "Don't fall for it. Chew it up, and spit it out."
Grossman's next complaint about Hollywood leads to the third step toward Bullet-Proofing the Mind:
3. Don't be a macho man
This third step toward a Bullet Proof Mind takes on a bit of a dual meaning. "Every good cop knows there is no shame in calling for backup," Grossman noted. He used that truth to encourage people who have survived a deadly-force encounter to call for back-up in dealing with any level of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Grossman spent 75% of the all-day seminar on the fourth and final step toward a Bullet-Proof Mind:
4. Hunt down and eliminate every bit of denial in our lives
"Denial is the enemy," Grossman repeatedly warned. Citing examples ranging from the 9-11 terror attacks to a litany of school shootings, including one in his hometown of Jonesboro, AR. Grossman's own son was attending the school at Jonesboro that day.
"The worst thing that can happen is someone coming to kill our kids. Folks, someone is coming to kill our kids."
In effort to shake his students from their denial, Grossman noted that we are facing both Internal and External Threats. The Internal Threat is that "kids and perverts are coming to kill our kids." The External Threat is that "terrorists are coming to kill our kids."
Citing the horrific attack by Islamic terrorists on the Russian school in Beslan, Russia, where after more than three days of rape and murder, more than 350 people died - half of them children.
Full article here: http://www.killology.com/art_buckeye.htm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Four Steps to a Bullet-Proof Mind
Grossman spent the day walking us through the four steps to a Bullet Proof Mind:
1. Understanding the magnitude of the threat.
Grossman struck hard on this theme from the minute the all-day seminar began, setting the stage with two powerful questions:
"Can we take the lessons learned in blood and lives at Columbine and the World Trade Center and apply them so we'll never take this [path] again, or do we have to wait until our kids die?"
and
"Could we agree our responsibility is to keep our kids and grandkids safe?"
To set up his next theme, Grossman delivered the first of what became throughout the day a host of riveting real-life case-studies, recounting the story of a Secret Service agent who took a .22 round in a non-vital area during the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, yet collapsed, not because he was incapacitated but because Hollywood had taught him that he was supposed to fall down when he got shot. Thus his second step to a Bullet-Proof Mind:
2. Don't focus on the minority who were hurt.
Grossman advised that "stuff you think you know about combat can destroy you. ...Basing what you think you know about combat on Hollywood is like basing what you know about eloquence on Disney's 'Dumbo'."
"Hollywood loves the pity party," Grossman observed. "Don't fall for it. Chew it up, and spit it out."
Grossman's next complaint about Hollywood leads to the third step toward Bullet-Proofing the Mind:
3. Don't be a macho man
This third step toward a Bullet Proof Mind takes on a bit of a dual meaning. "Every good cop knows there is no shame in calling for backup," Grossman noted. He used that truth to encourage people who have survived a deadly-force encounter to call for back-up in dealing with any level of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Grossman spent 75% of the all-day seminar on the fourth and final step toward a Bullet-Proof Mind:
4. Hunt down and eliminate every bit of denial in our lives
"Denial is the enemy," Grossman repeatedly warned. Citing examples ranging from the 9-11 terror attacks to a litany of school shootings, including one in his hometown of Jonesboro, AR. Grossman's own son was attending the school at Jonesboro that day.
"The worst thing that can happen is someone coming to kill our kids. Folks, someone is coming to kill our kids."
In effort to shake his students from their denial, Grossman noted that we are facing both Internal and External Threats. The Internal Threat is that "kids and perverts are coming to kill our kids." The External Threat is that "terrorists are coming to kill our kids."
Citing the horrific attack by Islamic terrorists on the Russian school in Beslan, Russia, where after more than three days of rape and murder, more than 350 people died - half of them children.