COR-TEN wrote:
Louis Lipps Service wrote:
Some messed up people out there, man.
Definitely wasn't ready for it when news of this hit.
You never expect to see it in your town.
It does highlight some lessons a SWAT medic friend I know once told me, though.
- Train yourself to be harder to kill (ie, stay fit, take some first aid and emergency response classes).
- Head on a swivel. Don't just give benefit of the doubt to someone who looks shady. No, you don't need to be confrontational to every person walking around with a hoodie over their head....but you should keep an eye on him/her and have a plan in your head if he/she does do something unexpected.
And finally, the one he repeats to me almost every time I see him, ALWAYS keep a first aid kit handy and know how to use it. Your car, a backpack you carry daily...whatever. If not a full first aid kid, at the very least carry a tourniquet. In situations like this, a single tourniquet can save a life. Yo can buy small and inexpensive ones on amazon. They're super easy to use.
If anyone has any questions on the above, feel free to PM me.
It all sounds like tin-foil hat, black chopper fearing shit right up until you need it and realize you don't have it.
None of this is news to those of us that live in NYC. After 9/11, anybody with a lick of sense has a bug-out kit. Including hydration, first aid, tools, etc. And a head on a swivel should be mandatory for anybody that lives in a city. Period. Even a distracted driver can cost you a leg or worse.
Not to say head on a swivel doesn't work in nature as well. Like bears in Yellowstone. Just spent some time at the Presidio and saw a coyote strolling through the cemetery at mid day, but stranger things have been found in central park. . .
But this asshole is twisted and was enabled by public discourse.
For sure, man. It's just amazing how people look at things like I listed and have that "Eh, I'll be fine" or "odds are, it won't happen to me" mentality.
I have one friend in particular. Fat and lazy as shit, but still plays rec-league sports with me. Complains after every game how out of shape he is. I ask him why he doesn't do something about it and it's "eh, I don't have time", or one of 100 other excuses. He has a one year old kid and I got pissed at him at one day and asked him what he'd do if someone opened fire in a place where he was with his kid. What's he going to do if he needs to pick up his kid and carry him out of there as fast as possible.
He brushed it off with that typical apathetic attitude.
People need to realize these are very real dangers that are happening regularly. Today's laziness can be tomorrow's reason you didn't make it out, or worse, the reason your kid or wife didn't make it out.
It kills me that people can ignore that.