Masks can be Murder

American Thinker ^ | 7 January A.D. 2021 | Lt. Col. Dave Grossman (ret.)

[lightman]

Wearing masks can create a sense of anonymity for an aggressor, while also dehumanizing the victim. This prevents empathy, empowering violence, and murder...

Masks are like a handful of sand in an automobile engine, increasing the “friction” at . . . Every. Single. One. Of these billions of daily contact points.

We understand that people will say things online that they would never say face-to-face. Masks create a similar sense of anonymity for the aggressor, empowering interpersonal violence, and hostility across our nation...

The face is the window to the soul and covering the face with a mask erodes empathy and empowers interpersonal aggression...

Masks also muffle voices, causing people to shout to be understood -- but shouting signals aggression! When someone shouts at you, you immediately become defensive and hostile. And the situation can spiral downward from there, into aggression, violence, and even murder...

Masks can contribute to daily dehumanization, desensitization, alienation, anxiety, and social isolation. This can incite a spontaneous violent act, often resulting in a single homicide committed in a fit of rage.

There’ also a form of “chronic withdrawal” caused by a long-term build-up of alienation and isolation that can result in mass murders and massacres. I pray that I am wrong, but I think it is highly likely that in the coming years we will see day-care massacres, school bus massacres, and vehicles used as weapons of mass murder. These crimes have happened around the world, and it may be only a matter of time until they come to our nation. (There are many things we can do, right now, to mitigate the possible loss of life from such attacks.)

Masks truly can be murder.

[lightman]

-“Killing Enabling Factors” Illustration from On Killing by Lt.Col. Dave Grossman

[lightman]

Ping.

[shanover]

The woman yesterday was assassinated and the murderer seems to be protected. I have know doubt that the masks can ultimately wire a person in a psychotic fashion as the article suggests. Those suited a-holes masked up and pointing the weapons through broken glass and barricaded door are COWARDS.

The Covid overall has truly fundamentally changed our society and has been politically and socially weaponized by the left and forces on the "right" such as the anti-Trumps.

[seabeeson]

Looking at the video, it looks like schumer shot this woman.

[wjcsux]

I took a one day seminar from LTC Grossman several years ago, he is a very impressive guy.

[metmom]

There’ also a form of “chronic withdrawal” caused by a long-term build-up of alienation and isolation that can result in mass murders and massacres. I pray that I am wrong, but I think it is highly likely that in the coming years we will see day-care massacres, school bus massacres, and vehicles used as weapons of mass murder. These crimes have happened around the world, and it may be only a matter of time until they come to our nation.

If they do, it's going to be more about pushing for gun control than anything.

The dems will stage an event, slaughter a few innocents, who generally happen to be conservatives, and then demand more gun control to keep everyone *safe*.

So, yes, I expect more mass shootings but not for the mask reason, but for gun control agenda reasons.

[livius]

I’d never heard of him before, but this was an excellent, very perceptive article and I think I need to find out more.

[lightman]

I have heard Lt. Col Grossman at least four times...once way back when he was just getting started on the speaking circuit and then three later times when he presented the “bulletproof mind” on the psychological prep for surviving critical incidents.

[EC Washington]

Post all of your Anti-Mask Statements before January 20. Once Saint Anthony Fauci is in charge, we will be wearing masks until 2024.

[lightman]

HELL NO!

[wjcsux]

He’s the real deal. I heard him discuss the psychology of armed conflict, very eye opening.