{"id":23034,"date":"2013-05-24T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=23034"},"modified":"2013-05-24T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:25:22","slug":"there-are-limits-to-situational-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/there-are-limits-to-situational-awareness\/23034\/","title":{"rendered":"There are limits to situational awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheSun\"I have been thinking a lot about the London terror attack and what it can teach us. In truth, when a person gets knocked down by a car, the first thing that goes through that person’s mind isn’t likely to be that the car’s drivers is going to jump out and attack with meat cleavers.<\/p>\n

There are limits to situational awareness… nothing<\/i> works all the time in every situation.<\/p>\n

Make what you will about the Londoners who stood around watching. As one person noted, after Gabby Giffords was shot, bystanders pounded on the shooter and subdued him. Honestly, I think that is a locational issue. Giffords was shot in Arizona… had the same shooting happened in NYC or the hell-hole of Chicago, I believe the reaction would be exactly the same as London. Had it happened in Detroit, the bystanders would have joined in the murders and helped out with the video.<\/p>\n

What do we learn?<\/p>\n

B<\/b><\/i>e armed all the time<\/i><\/b>! We don’t get to pick the time or the place or the circumstances.<\/p>\n

Secondly, each of us who carries every day needs to IN ADVANCE <\/b>make the decision as to what circumstances we will intervene if we or those we are responsible for are not DIRECTLY<\/i><\/b> involved. This is a bigger issue that you might think. I have been very specific in DOWN RANGE Radio<\/a> that our first responsibility is to those within our care. In a public situation, our responsibility is to get our loved one or our friends to safety. At what point do we intervene? I’m thinking that if two dudes jump out of a car with cleavers and start wailing on someone, I’m going to shoot the blade-wielders a lot…but, again, I will not know for sure until that situation happens to me. Easy to write the words on the Internet; harder to perform the actions in the Real World.<\/p>\n

I do think we ought to take the guy in the front page above at his word… despite what Glorious Leader says, we as a culture (and, increasingly, personally) in a battle to the death with radical Islamists. What “battle to the death” means is that we will die or they will die. Until we grasp that subtle point, there’s a guy out there with \u00a0cleaver with our name on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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