I had a couple friends over for dinner. They both own businesses...one is an estate liquidator with a HUGE storage facility for some of the more spendy items (gold, silver, high end antiques etc).
He's a rod and gun club president and over sees the shooting range.
He repeated this short quote (apparently made in his presence by a high ranked state trooper) "They're coming".
Huh? I ask him? "Who is coming"? And he said the trooper implied the "they" are the now un-employed (by choice) thugs who are moving into the suburbs to theive.
One thing I learned after my surgery (or had explained to me) was the "fight or fight" response. And we don't know WHICH we are until we are pressed into a "life or death" situation.
I had (unfortunately) "awareness" of the last part of my surgery.
I was placed in a "trundle bed"(upside down) and my anesthesia had worn off when they were transferring me from the surgery bed to the gurney.
Apparently I was very angry. I was bruised badly because one of the surgical staff dropped me somewhat when transferring me. I woke up, got UP and TOOK A SWING at the surgeons pa who was assisting.
I stayed, um PISSED OFF lol for hours after. Surgery was around 6 1/2 hrs. The pa was the first to check in with me post op. He was AWFUL to me. Openly hostile. (No bull) and I was unaware of what happened.
It wasn't till 2 days later a nurse told me I tried to hit him. As the anesthesia started wearing off, I became more aware, saw the bruises on me (bruised my left breast really bad..) and reacted with the fight response. Lol.
That boy is a HERO. And that is an example of his "fight" response. But that kid is going to be living with the fact he took a life. And that's going to be really hard on him.
Hopefully he learns how to deal with this.