Generally there are a lot of VIP bodyguards and tactical teams out for hire, and not expensive as Blackwater or whatever their new name is now a days.

So their question isn’t whether to arm rent a cops, it’s about whether to shell out the major cash to hire people executives hire to protect them. Killers who are better than the killers, but hired to protect instead of assassinate.

The issue for schools was probably the same thing, budgeting. The fight out in the public sphere looks to be about issues, but what motivates people is resources and who gets to expend whose money.

The amount of money required to hire even 1-2 executive protection details for a mall, for hours at a time, isn’t necessarily small. Of course, that is why cargo liners passing by Somalia, didn’t hire tactical teams. Until they did, Somali pirates were a “big problem”. Of course they became “less of a problem” when the corporates started hiring teams of shooters and putting them on their cargo ships.

Given the limitations of the modern family life and work life, people want results quickly from their training. None of this “train for 5-10 years before you can be proficient”. People have distilled it down to only a few days, although further weekly practice is needed to master or refine personal physical skills.

Even the use of something like a flashlight in a tactical environment, requires training on par if not exceeding what police undergo from their curriculum. Except for civilians, there is no curriculum, just recommendations and individual creative efforts. Some of which have become adapted and ingeniously effective in this environment, often exceeding the usability of police or military training.

I have had the benefit of prioritizing my personal reaction skills since 2001. But even if others start right this week, they won’t be too far behind. It just takes a gear shift in the mind, from thinking of “I need an authority to tell me what to do” vs thinking as a ruler or decider, and just having advisers recommend solutions to you while you implement them for training.

Things such as personal security for each individual on this continent always needed maxing out, but the security bought by America’s forefathers and the system they left behind, is finally beginning to fail. And not just in ghettoes or corrupt cities either.

For my non lethal force options, an IED flashlight is getting popular. For bypassing TSA check lists, other things have gotten popular. Although I was always a fan of the unarmed schools of martial arts and self defense. Not even the TSA could literally disarm you then.

Trumpbart exaggerating? Inconceivable!

I would argue that rather than common sense, it is the reality we face as long as we refuse to identify the enemy. It is our future as long as we insist that Islam is a religion of peace.

http://www.dglobe.com/news/3860425-dayton-blunt-mn-forum-anyone-who-cant-accept-immigrants-should-find-another-state

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/new-york-explosion-sadiq-khan-says-terror-attacks-are-part-and-parcel-of-life-in-a-big-city-a3347891.html

“Jason Falconer is the man who shot and killed the 22-year-old Somali maniac who went on a stabbing spree at a mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday.

Falconer is the owner of Tactical Advantage, a shooting range and tactical training facility. He was also formerly the police chief of the Albany (MN) Police Department and is still a part-time police officer. Falconer is an NRA instructor and a member of the United States Practical Shooting Association, a competitive pistol shooting association.

The media will not tell you those things. Bob Owens at Bearing Arms writes: “But Falconer has consistently been identified in the mainstream media only as as a ‘former police chief’ and ‘off-duty police officer.'”