We Defeat Monsters With Courage, Not Fear

This Colorado theatre attack fits the defintion of domestic terrorism, no matter what the motivation. Creating chaos, anger and fear is the goal for terrorists such as these. Lone gunmen looking to destroy the world are terrorists. Physical security from attacks such as these comes from community team building, an armed citizenry and legislators who legislate for the people's freedom to protect themselves, rather than against the very freedoms that can destroy these monsters when they appear. We do not need metal detectors at theatres, or more gun control. We need the community to endorse its people to protect themselves. We need to work together to maintain vigilance and cohesion when presented with terror. We do not need to have knee jerk reactions that result in clamping down on our freedoms. We need community planning and a "don't try this with us" mindset. That is how we prevent these attrocities. We defeat monsters with courage, not fear.
Bryan M. Seaver

Power to the People

I keep hearing people say that this theatre attack is not terrorism. I completely disagree. Is it Muslim Extremism? No. Probably not. Is it politically motivated. I don't think so. However, someone planned this attack, carried it out against the public and people were TERRIFIED!!! It's TERRORISM. The best way to prevent attacks such as these is training and education. We need to teach our people what to look for. Teach them how to react. How to work together. How to survive and how to ACT. How to fight back. Not how to die. Not how to cower in fear and wait for the police to come scoop you into a body bag.
Bryan M. Seaver

Protect Yourself, No One Else Will

When evil presents itself, you can be prepared to protect you and yours or you can die a victim. The government will not protect you. Your president won't protect you. The police won't protect you. No one will protect you, except you. Others will take away your ability to protect yourself by inacting ineffective, illogical, self serving laws and regulations that will leave you defenseless at the mercy of evil and at the behest of your overlords. No place is safe unless YOU make it so YOURSELF. Learn to use a weapon and carry it always. Do this so that others can not inflict their evil upon you.
Bryan M. Seaver

The Future of Terrorism

The terrorists of the future will be lone gunmen. Singular bombers with intentions of surviving to bomb another day. These men and women will work alone. They will be extremely successful and they will have planned exit strategies. These people will not want to be caught and imprisoned. They will not want to die. They will gain notoriety through the act of surviving these attacks and carrying out more. The terrorist of the future will steal the materials he needs and he will thrive off of the national economies and corporate assets of his opposition. We will see hostage situations that result in the escape of the hostage taker. The goals of these terrorists will be simple extortion, theft, robbery, mass murder, assassination, media attention and political intervention. These characters will be part Carlos the Jackal, part Osama Bin Laden and part Bodhi from Point Break. They will think of their endeavors as adventures. They will work as mercenaries. They will hire themselves out and they will even follow ideologies. But they will be solo or in small independent cells. They will be of all nationalities and persuasions. We will see networks hijacked, systems disrupted and entire economies held hostage by individual operators with commercial-off-the-shelf devices customized to the terrorist's needs. They will exploit the media and use pubic relations to gain mass approval for their acts. They will redistribute wealth in supposed "Robin Hood Operations". These terrorists will steal the technological capabilities of standing armies, governments and corporations. These are the terrorists of the future... Gonkafied
Bryan M. Seaver