The Rotac Training Group: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The Rotac Training Group: HAPPY NEW YEAR!: WANT TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY & HEALTHY NEW YEAR! MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE & YOUR GOALS ACCOMPLISHED!

GOOD GUYS WIN!

I don't believe that anyone or any community is safe today.  This tragic incident happened in my town yesterday morning.  Thank GOD that the three officer involved are, from what we were told, going to recover from their physical injuries.   However, the psychological trauma that they experienced is probably going to take a little more time to sort out.  This could have been a lot worst had it not been for their training and their ability to have worked through, probably the worst thing a person could encounter, that being some crazed nut ball trying to kill you!  This time it worked out good.  The cops prevailed and the perp is no longer a concern to the community! 

WISHING THE THREE OFFICERS A SPEEDY RECOVERY AND HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

WISHING EVERYONE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

A FATHER'S COMMENT

COLUMBINE STUDENT'S FATHER 12 YEARS LATER !!
Guess our national leaders didn't expect this. On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.

They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.. The following is a portion of the transcript:
"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers.

"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart.

"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. 

Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.

I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.

Your laws ignore our deepest needs, 
Your words are empty air. 
You've stripped away our heritage, 
You've outlawed simple prayer. 
Now gunshots fill our classrooms, 
And precious children die. 
You seek for answers everywhere, 
And ask the question "Why?" 
You regulate restrictive laws, 
Through legislative creed. 
And yet you fail to understand, 
That God is what we need!

"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.

"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge.. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone! 

My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"

- Darrell Scott
Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech. Please send this out to everyone you can. 
God Bless

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's most recent comment

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Below is my most recent writing. Not yet published, but submitted in response to a request from Fox news.

Best regards, and a Blessed Holidays to you and yours,

Dave

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Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill

Dave Grossman, Lt. Col. USA (ret.)
Author of On Killing, On Combat, Warrior Mindset, and Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill
www.GetBulletProofMind.com

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So, the brutal, merciless, savage mass murderer of first-graders in Connecticut was another in a long line of avid video game players who turned their sick fantasy into our tragic reality. Surprised?

I train military and law enforcement nation-wide, on the road almost 300 days a year for 15 years. I was an Army Ranger and a West Point Psych Professor. An author of many very successful books on this subject. This is the perspective that I come from...

Bottom line: From a military and law enforcement perspective, violent video games are "murder simulators" that train kids to kill. They act just like police and military simulators, providing conditioned responses, killing skills, and desensitization, except they are inflicted on children without the discipline of military and police training.

Research on the background of our juvenile mass murderers show they have one thing in common: they ALL dropped out of life and filled their lives with nothing but violent movies and violent video games. The sickest video games and the sickest movies are very very sick indeed. And the sick sick kids who immerse themselves in this "entertainment" are very sick indeed.

Jonesboro in the middle school, Columbine in the high school, Virginia Tech in the college, and now this generation gives us Sandy Hook as adults… 

The Sandy Hook massacre has been building for years. And there is much, much worse yet to come. (They are NOT "shootings" they are massacres ... five died in the "Boston Massacre" which touched off the American Revolution … six murdered in the "St. Valentines Day Massacre" … many times more were murdered in Sandy Hook and we hide the reality from ourselves by calling it a "shooting" … "shooting" is what happens on the range … a "shooter" is the guy who got lucky during deer season! These are brutal mass murderers, committing savage massacres unlike anything seen in human history.)

This has all been building up for years. Consider the stats on officers murdered in the line of duty in the US:

'08: 42
'09: 48
'10: 56
'11: 72

Anyone see a pattern here? Medical technology is holding DOWN the murder rate. The number of murdered cops should be going down every year.

These are criminals who practiced killing cops since they were six years old, every day of their lives, playing Grand Theft Auto, and now they are primed to kill cops as adults.

If we intentionally tried to raise a generation cocked and primed to kill, we could not have done a better job.

The answer? Parents MUST enforce the rating system. They MUST understand the danger. To do that, they must be informed by our media! And the schools must begin to educate their kids! Go towww.TakeTheChallengeNow.net to learn about a school TV-turnoff curriculum pioneered by Stanford Med School and demonstrated to cut school violence and bullying in half!

An "M" (mature, 17 and above ONLY) rated game is the same as an "X" rated movie! The people who manufacture the game say so. Their own industry says so! A "T" (teen) rating means no child under 13 should play the game. Period. It is a very tragic, horrendous situation when adults let their children immerse themselves in M rated games! Just like, sex, gambling, porn, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, guns, and automobiles: these are all things that adults must not give to kids!

Not all of the kids who play these sick games will become killers, but they will all be desensitized to human death and suffering, intentionally and realistically inflicted by themselves, for their own entertainment…

If YOUR child is one who commits a brutal crime, and YOU let them play these sick games, t

THANK YOU!

Food For Thought

REALITY HUMOR!!!!

Food For Thought

Tragedy

First please let me say that my THOUGHTS & PRAYERS  go out to the family's of those children and the others who's live were taken yesterday in such a tragic and senseless act of violence.  I  was so upset when I heard this.  I felt a sort of emptiness in my life and then a anger that was like an emotionally roller coaster.  Where do these PSYCHO'S come from?  Normal human beings are not hard wired to take another human being's life.  God did not make us that way.  To take these lives especially this time of the year when children's lives are filled with so much excitement and love is an unthinkable act of pure violence.  It makes me wonder why this BASTARD couldn't have been hit by a truck on his way to that school.  To have taken his own mother's life first, MAY SHE RIP, then proceed to the school just goes to show what a crossed wired dysfunctional sick  person this kid was.  I can't believe that there was no kind of warning signals given by this kid that would indicate that there was something majorly wrong going own in his world!  Now the BLAME GAMES start.  The GUNS, THE GUNS, THE GUNS.  But I have not heard a word about the VIOLENCE that are kids are exposed to through the ENTERTAINMENT AND HOLLYWOOD INDUSTRIES.  Lt. Col Dave Grossman, wrote about this in his book, ON KILLING, (Section V111) published back in 1995.  We are about to enter the year 2013 and we don't seem to have the answers to our social problems, or simply want to ignore them.  To me we seem to be going backwards instead of forward.  We keep blaming objects instead of addressing the real issues.  Our Politicians and Legislators go after what appears to be the easy target, because it makes most people feel good.  It's like putting a band aid on a major cut, It looks like your doing something but in reality the problem is not solved.  If we do not take a serious look at what our children are involved with and being exposed to the problems are only going to get worst.  This is just my feelings on this UNGODLY ACT OF VIOLENCE!  MAY GOD BLESS ALL THAT ARE INVOLVED AND WHOSE LIVES WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER!

JUST WANT TO CONGRATULATE ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS ON HIS NEW ASSIGNMENT WITH THE PHILA. P.D. SWAT TEAM.  I HAVE NEVER MET A HARDER WORKING AND DEDICATED PERSON IN MY LIVE.  JOSHUA, YOUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR TRAINING HAS PAID OFF.  GOOD LUCK BROTHER, STAY SAFE!  

Finally with all the craziness that's been going on in the military a decision that makes sense is a reality.  Nothing like GOOD JUDGEMENT & COMMON SENSE!  

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