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You’ve been conditioned to do the wrong thing when a gun is pointed at you.
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I'm watching Hawaii Five-O this evening. In this episode, the Medical Examiner has been captured by a criminal at gunpoint, and does everything he says.
"Come with me."
"Operate on my friend."
Psychologically, people have been trained by watching TV to do whatever a person with a gun tells them to.
That's a big problem, and here's why. I'll tell you a true story.
When we were in college, my wife worked in a 7-Eleven in Springfield, Oregon. She worked swing shift, and was relieved in the evening by a very nice man who worked the graveyard shift. Late one night, after my wife was safely at home, two young criminals came into the store, and the leader pointed a gun at the clerk.
They ordered him to empty the cash register.
He obeyed them.
They ordered him to go into the cooler.
He obeyed them.
And there, in the cooler, they blew his brains out.
If you point a gun at me, I absolutely will not do anything you tell me to do.