We need to take a two track approach to the Aurora shooting

We need to take a two track approach to the Aurora shooting, how to recognize suspect behavior, how to react when it starts. CTI promotes both, we all need to take a more active approach to our own safety & security.  Not necessarily gun carrying, although carrying a weapon can be an advantage. I think the key is more awareness of how to recognize & react.

Like good advance work is key to bodyguard work, so is good training of awareness key to our own and your safety.

People around the shooter in a day to day activity, need to be more aware of clues that tell us his situation or attitude toward life has changed.  Let me point to the first comments from the shooters mother, Yes, that is my Son, I am on my way to Co.  She knew this was a possible activity her son, could be involved with.  I am also suspect of the collage he attended, they apparently had thought it prudent to revoke his access card, before he was actually fully closed out at the collage.

We all need to be more aware of our own surroundings and always make plans as to how to get out of an area, as safely and efficiently as possible.  Like a good martial art practitioner, that trains so many moves are subconscious reactive to threat, so must our awareness be trained to subconscious start reacting to suspect behavior around us.

Like advance work this awareness ability has to be practiced and actively worked on to make it sink into our subconscious.

   : out of place movements by people should quickly register in our subconscious

   : subconscious, ability to look for multiple ways out of any facility or situation

   : subconscious, ability to look for shelter in place & defensive positions

   : Ability to run through all the options and decide to act with any weapon or ability to kill the offender,

I think we all need to understand Police are a response to incident force, that we are all in charge of our own safety and security, has to become a priority in the US.

Rich