(1234) Afternoon all. (1234)
17. Two issues to sort here
First is these people still clinging to “it’s rare” or “most of them are good people, deep down” or “the nutter had a troubbled childhood” or whatever else they come out with. Totally irrelevant. Are there certain demographics from which attacks are more likely to come from, when they do … and what to do with those “communities”? Also are there native Manchurians too, e.g. Parallax, Manchurian, even Bourne type assets? That’s an ongoing question.
The second is, as Michelle put … what to actually do, to have prepared.
At base level, the first choice is fight or flight. Flight, if you’re quick enough, means you avoid jail. But not situations, e.g. on that train, favour flight.
The other is fight and that will mean prison, in with those creeps. The perp of course is released onto the street. So in a snap decision fight situation, you have to assume you’ll be one of two things … dead or injured or he will be … either way, you will be. Moderation and slowness in this is no option. You must pre-empt the attacker, strongly.
There are decisions before that though … for example, travelling that way, being in that part of a carriage, being near a fire point etc.
There’s another still. Rather than calling, “Help! Help!” … say something different such as, “Rush him, all of you!” … often it just needs the catalyst for people to fi d courage and spring i to action, en masse.
May I also suggest stab vest or flak jacket.
16. Destructive incompetence
