12-09-2015, 09:38 PM
One would always hope that it would be relatively easy to identify the "bad guys" but as that old military dictum goes: "no plan survives first contact with the enemy".
However, if you are ALWAYS in status "Yellow" when you are in a public place, you should be aware enough that you recognize the change, or that something isn't "right".
Twice I have walked out of Walmart in my small town, saw something suspicious, and turned and walked back in, while grabbing my cell phone and dialing 911. Both times the people that exhibited suspicious behavior were arrested on outstanding warrants. I had a friend walk out with his little girl, who had spent her own money on a game station, when he recognized that the two guys following him out had also been hanging out in the electronics section when his daughter made her purchase. He promptly grabbed a cart and pushed it between two cars so anyone coming from behind would have to negotiated getting by it, and shoved his daughter down under his pickup, while drawing his gun. One of the guys came around the front of his rig, saw the gun and took off running, the second got caught in the basket, and froze when he saw the gun. He was arrested and his buddy was too, when the cops found him hiding in a dumpster.
It isn't always that clean cut, but situational awareness goes a long way!
However, if you are ALWAYS in status "Yellow" when you are in a public place, you should be aware enough that you recognize the change, or that something isn't "right".
Twice I have walked out of Walmart in my small town, saw something suspicious, and turned and walked back in, while grabbing my cell phone and dialing 911. Both times the people that exhibited suspicious behavior were arrested on outstanding warrants. I had a friend walk out with his little girl, who had spent her own money on a game station, when he recognized that the two guys following him out had also been hanging out in the electronics section when his daughter made her purchase. He promptly grabbed a cart and pushed it between two cars so anyone coming from behind would have to negotiated getting by it, and shoved his daughter down under his pickup, while drawing his gun. One of the guys came around the front of his rig, saw the gun and took off running, the second got caught in the basket, and froze when he saw the gun. He was arrested and his buddy was too, when the cops found him hiding in a dumpster.
It isn't always that clean cut, but situational awareness goes a long way!
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt