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I had an opportunity to hear him speak yesterday. It was the 2nd time for me, and I’ve read a lot of his stuff, but it was a great day. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend it (though he typically speaks to designated groups, like LEO, MIL, school admins, etc.)
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On Combat is a great book. Reading that now. I just picked up a reissue of On Killing.
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Lt. Col. Grossman for president. I have had the glorious opprotunity to speak with him at both seminars I attended. Mostly because I waited ’til last to get my books signed. He is truly a great man. GOD BLESS HIM and all he does.
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Lt. Col. Grossman’s two books are must-reads. Also, take a moment and read his essay, “On Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs”. This is found in the book, “On Combat”. It explains much of both the liberal and warrior mindset.
http://www.killology.com/sheep_dog.htm
I’ve sent this to some local liberal nitwits when they go on anti-cop rants. They don’t get it (baa, baa!)…
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Awesome.. his books are essential reading IMO.
His campaign / book “Stop Teaching our Kids To Kill’ to raise awareness of the effects of violent media, games, images on kids is mission critical for our modern society.. :
http://www.killology.com/book_stop_summary.htm
…talk about a lone voice in the wilderness on that one
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie & Video Game Violence
Summary
In Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Carneal, a fourteen-year-old boy who stole a gun from a neighbor’s house, brought it to school and fired eight shots at a student prayer group as they were breaking up. Prior to stealing this weapon, he had never shot an actual handgun before. Of the eight shots he fired, he had eight hits on eight different kids. Five were head shots, the other three upper torso. The result was three dead, one paralyzed for life. The FBI says that the average, experienced, qualified law enforcement officer, in the average shoot-out, at an average range of seven yards, hits with less than one bullet in five. How does a child acquire such killing ability. What would lead him to go out and commit such a horrific act?
There is perhaps no bigger or more important issue in America at present than youth violence. Jonesboro, Arkansas; Paducah, Kentucky; Pearl, Mississippi; Stamps, Arkansas; Conyers, Georgia; and of course, Littleton, Colorado. We know them all too well, and for all the wrong reasons: kids, some as young as eleven years old, taking up arms and, with deadly, frightening accuracy, murdering anyone in their paths. What is going on? According to the authors of Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill, there is blame to be laid right at the feet of the makers of violent video games (called “murder trainers” by one expert), the TV networks, and the Hollywood movie studios–the people responsible for the fact that children often witness literally hundreds of violent images a day.
Authors Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano offer incontrovertible evidence, much of it based on recent major scientific studies and empirical research, that movies, TV, and video games are not just conditioning children to be violent–and unaware of the consequences of that violence–but are teaching the very mechanics of killing. Their book is a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America’s youth. And, most important, it is a blueprint for us all on how that can be achieved.
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