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Do You Have EDC "Dead Eyes"?

This is my opinion based on my experience. It may or may not be right for anybody else but it's certainly true in my life.

I don't know if it's the only way but the way that I developed the it can happen to me mindset is by having it happen to me.

This happened so long ago that I barely remember it but I was grocery shopping with my mother I am pretty sure I was less than 9 years old.

If you're familiar with Omaha there used to be (there might still be) a Baker's supermarket at 72nd and Blondo. I was in the shopping with my mother one day and some lady tried to kidnap me right out of the store.

She asked my mother if I could help her take her groceries to the car. Remember, this was 50 years ago no parent no right mind would say yes today but 50 years ago my mom said yes.

The lady got me to the car and then told me that my mother said that I was supposed to go home with her and help her put the groceries away. At that point my mother showed up and grabbed me by the arm and said let's go back to our car now.

I had another guy a couple years later that attacked me in the lobby of the Omaha Playhouse when I went to a play with my fourth or fifth grade class.

As lame as those two examples may seem, they had an impact on my life.

They taught me at a very early age that the world is not a safe place.
 
I carry every day. Situational awareness is the most important thing there is in concealed carry. I stay intentional with it as a practice. As the article says it is not really all that automatic, and a lot of distractions going about our day. Certainly was not all that automatic for me in the beginning of my licensing to carry. Been more than a year now. You can avoid the majority of things by being intently aware of what's going on and who is around you. And yes...I do no think anyone else is responsible for anything in my life, and certainly not my personal safety. The average assault is 7 seconds and average police response time is 14 minutes. Polymer tipped hollow points...
 
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I believe there's a mentality people have. For me, whenever I'm out and about, I know the type of environment I'm in. I know what I'm capable of physically, I don't worry about being a victim. Doesn't matter if I'm carrying a weapon or not. I've walked the streets of European cities, US cities and have never been bothered. Helps that I'm 6'3", 225, and would rather growl at people than talk to them. Yes, my usual carry weapon of choice is a 1911..
 
Be aware, be alert, and carry a spectrum of tools. Defensive tools range from just my awareness, observations and communication skills to the ability to escalate from my preferred tactic of disengage - to full spectrum... if required. I prefer to avoid most areas where defensive tools are prohibited (i.e the very unsafe 'safe' zones). I may make exceptions if secure parking is available, armed security is onsite very close... not the coffee drinking b.s. gaggles of LEO's I sometimes observe at vulnerable gatherings.
 
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I have been on my own since I was 13 and most of my law enforcement career I worked alone. I closed out my career as a tracker and training officer and even in these senior years I have been contacted by few people that know me or is a relative of a old friend. My son and daughter have learned well. I am this old because I want to survive and the people I have worked with over the years have contributed to me staying upright.
 
I've said this before and I will say it again you cannot teach somebody situational awareness. You cannot decide to increase or decrease your level of situational awareness. You can decide whether a given action (such as varying your route home) is prudent or unnecessary but I don't believe that you can make a conscious decision to be more or less situationally aware in any given situation at least not for any extended period of time.

I've made this analogy before and I'm absolutely convinced it's correct, situational awareness is like a radar detector. The majority of the time your radar detector is sitting on your dashboard doing its thing and you're paying it no attention, until it picks up signal and it beeps.

The majority of the time your "situational awareness" is sitting on your brain's dashboard doing its thing and you're not paying any attention to it until it picks up a signal that your experiences taught you is bad juju.

I also said this before, I don't think I've ever had anybody continue the assault if you want to call it that once they realized that I was aware of them and getting ready to defend myself.

But I've never had anybody target me when I wasn't at work. I don't know if the uniform made them back down or not but I know that when I was at work and people were planning something and they noticed that I was observing them they would back down.
 
Situational awareness isnt just limited to self defense. Driving is a major awareness factor. Even to miss accidents or road closures and be aware to take detours and not get caught up in a mess up ahead.
Its amazing on roadways where the signs above the road and on the road say “exit only” or such for 1/2 mile and folks slam on the breaks at the exit ramp and swerve over 2 lanes.

Did you not see the 1/2 mile of “exit only” signs… nope !
 
The Night Rider said:
I've said this before and I will say it again you cannot teach somebody situational awareness. You cannot decide to increase or decrease your level of situational awareness. You can decide whether a given action (such as varying your route home) is prudent or unnecessary but I don't believe that you can make a conscious decision to be more or less situationally aware in any given situation at least not for any extended period of time.

I've made this analogy before and I'm absolutely convinced it's correct, situational awareness is like a radar detector. The majority of the time your radar detector is sitting on your dashboard doing its thing and you're paying it no attention, until it picks up signal and it beeps.

The majority of the time your "situational awareness" is sitting on your brain's dashboard doing its thing and you're not paying any attention to it until it picks up a signal that your experiences taught you is bad juju.

I also said this before, I don't think I've ever had anybody continue the assault if you want to call it that once they realized that I was aware of them and getting ready to defend myself.

But I've never had anybody target me when I wasn't at work. I don't know if the uniform made them back down or not but I know that when I was at work and people were planning something and they noticed that I was observing them they would back down.
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I sort of agree if youre talking about raising your base level of natural situation awareness, but you can make the conscious decision to be more aware based on the situation. I know it’s just saying the same in reverse but it is different. Someone in an unfamiliar area walking down a street, in my opinion will be naturally more aware because it’s not familiar.
 
I don't know how people go through life like this. True, "it will never happen to me" is dumb, but "it's highly unlikely that it will happen to me" is accurate. The statistics are clear - the world is not nearly as dangerous as the marketers want us to think it is. Keep your wits about you, sure, because things happen in life, and it's good to not be taken completely by surprise if it does. But you can't spend every waking minute expecting to need to bash someone's head into that nearby table edge. Is that one in a million chance really worth going through life paranoid and scared all the time? Articles like this are meant to keep people scared, because scared people spend way more money on all kinds of stuff they don't need. OK, flame away, kids. Light me up. I know this will be an extremely unpopular opinion in these parts.

ETA - also, even if you've got all your weps ready to go, you've identified your shooting lanes, you've found a nice sharp table edge, or a rolled-up magazine or a pencil or whatever other John Wick crap you're thinking about while you're in a restaurant or your aunt's funeral, you're probably not going to be able to use any of them. Very, very few people are capable. You're being sold a fantasy.
 
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Sharks79 said:
I sort of agree if youre talking about raising your base level of natural situation awareness, but you can make the conscious decision to be more aware based on the situation. I know it’s just saying the same in reverse but it is different. Someone in an unfamiliar area walking down a street, in my opinion will be naturally more aware because it’s not familiar.
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I agree but I believe that as he becomes more familiar with the area his level of awareness will decrease whether he wants it to or not.
 
MauriceDouglas said:
I don't know how people go through life like this. True, "it will never happen to me" is dumb, but "it's highly unlikely that it will happen to me" is accurate. The statistics are clear - the world is not nearly as dangerous as the marketers want us to think it is. Keep your wits about you, sure, because things happen in life, and it's good to not be taken completely by surprise if it does. But you can't spend every waking minute expecting to need to bash someone's head into that nearby table edge. Is that one in a million chance really worth going through life paranoid and scared all the time? Articles like this are meant to keep people scared, because scared people spend way more money on all kinds of stuff they don't need. OK, flame away, kids. Light me up. I know this will be an extremely unpopular opinion in these parts.

ETA - also, even if you've got all your weps ready to go, you've identified your shooting lanes, you've found a nice sharp table edge, or a rolled-up magazine or a pencil or whatever other John Wick crap you're thinking about while you're in a restaurant or your aunt's funeral, you're probably not going to be able to use any of them. Very, very few people are capable. You're being sold a fantasy.
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Assume this is a troll account but will play ball. I don’t think you’ve lurked long enough because most of us are pretty reasonable and understand that fear is often used as a motivator.

Awareness as one of the members above mentioned isn’t just being ready to get someone with a pencil. Being aware of the world around you also important as common courtesy. Have you been to a shopping mall lately where a person has there head in their phone and walks into people? Someone that mashes the brakes because they missed a turn? That is awareness.

Anyhoo, don’t think you’ll be around long but welcome from NC
 
What you believe affects your worldview. I believe two things, the first is I believe as I've said multiple times that we are living in the end times. The Bible describes the end times as Wars, rumors of wars, famines, floods, natural disasters and a general worldwide Spirit of brutality and lawlessness.

Tell me that doesn't describe the planet Earth in the 1st quarter of 21st century.

The second thing that I believe is that there are I don't know what to call it but I believe that there are a group of people in this world, many of them in our government at high levels as well as other countries governments at high levels, who believes that nationalism is an outdated concept and that we need a unified world government.

Now without diving too deep into details, I believe those things and because of that I believe that we are living in the most dangerous period of human history since right before Yhe Flood.

The fact that I really believe that does wonders for my program compliance.

I've talked about the night I walked out my front door and before I made it to my car two guys try to rob me.

I was hit or miss before that but I have not walked out my front door unarmed since
 
Hi,

I know most of us are familiar with these concepts and I think this is a solid article with a good message. For me, the philosophy was on point, i.e. "Awareness is the currency that buys you time."

Mrs. BassCliff was driving us down the interstate one sunny day. I told her, "Keep your eye on THAT car." She gave it a little more room. That car continued it's weaving and eventually clipped another car near us. She yelled, "Oh my god!" but we were safe. The other two drivers pulled over to take care of their new business. I hate to say it but I don't think she would've noticed that flaky driver, probably asleep at the wheel.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Seems like a slightly reworded conversation we've had here before.

Last time I recounted the things that seared second sight/amazing powers of observation into me someone made light of it and said how they were sick of hearing about it or accused me of lying about it or some such shite, so I won't do that again. I'll just say two things.

Condition yellowish-orange.

Ooda Loop.
 
The Night Rider said:
What you believe affects your worldview. I believe two things, the first is I believe as I've said multiple times that we are living in the end times. The Bible describes the end times as Wars, rumors of wars, famines, floods, natural disasters and a general worldwide Spirit of brutality and lawlessness.

Tell me that doesn't describe the planet Earth in the 1st quarter of 21st century.

The second thing that I believe is that there are I don't know what to call it but I believe that there are a group of people in this world, many of them in our government at high levels as well as other countries governments at high levels, who believes that nationalism is an outdated concept and that we need a unified world government.

Now without diving too deep into details, I believe those things and because of that I believe that we are living in the most dangerous period of human history since right before Yhe Flood.

The fact that I really believe that does wonders for my program compliance.

I've talked about the night I walked out my front door and before I made it to my car two guys try to rob me.

I was hit or miss before that but I have not walked out my front door unarmed since
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Yea on this we agree to disagree, you’ve crossed into a territory that i don’t subscribe and won’t engage in discussion because it involves beliefs

To this i say you do you

Those that don’t follow this path aren’t necessary wrong
 
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