Wow.
Well all I can say is thank God the Aussies have serious gun control, eh? It’s an old story, apparently - 2019. Apparently the troon got two years for this.
I’ve done a lot of reading about self defence, material written by the people involved with it annd in it, experts talking about it, law enforcement types…. I hear that the big problem in cases like these is that the victim goes into a “deer in the headlights” mode where his reasoning skills go into a poop loop where the fight or flight reflexes freeze up. For precious seconds the victim is wide open to anything the perp wants to do to him. Some of the eggheads say that the victim is in a state of disbelief where he literally can’t believe what’s happening to him.
Is it just hindsight? To me that thing walked in with all sense of purpose. Its weapons were on full display. The old adage applies … ya snooze, ya lose.
There's nothing there.
ReplyDeleteThat "deer in the headlights" thing is real. I've has someone apparently catch a case of mistaken identity and start yelling and screaming at me in a parking lot, complete surprise, no lead up, no warnings, just "HEY MOTHERFUCKER" right off the bat. And yeah, it took more precious seconds of me just standing there looking dumb and not reacting than I care to admit. If he had started swinging, I wouldn't have even been able to block it. We talked things down and he realized I wasn't the motherfucker he was looking for, but yeah. Deer in the headlights moment.
ReplyDeleteI always thought I'd see things starting and be able to react, head on a swivel and all that, but it's almost impossible to go about polite society without having a few blind spots or else looking like a paranoid meth addict.
So, avoid crowds, avoid blacks, keep your distance, stay rural. And head on a swivel as much as possible. And if it's your time to die, it's just your time.