Nov. 26, 2013

Quiet But Deadly

by Jennifer Johnson (author's profile)

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Quiet But Deadly

I have been doing a deep study on how to respond to anger. I often hear people say, oh, he or she is angry. Can you always tell if a person is angry or they are about to do something because they are angry. No, both of them is somewhat a myth. Through my study I've learned that people who are angry don't always have an outburst etc.

Society goes through life saying things like, oh, I know that person wasn't right or just angry. Societ says ooh, I know that he or she didn't just do that! However, I admit some people ware you when they are crying out for help or at their wits' end.

I want to briefly talk about the random shooting at navy yard. Video footage inside building 197 at the Washington Navy Yard shows Aaron Alexis "calmly" walking down the hallways of [?] rooms and stepping into offices, firing indiscriminately at people and reloading from shot gun shells he had stuffed inside the pockets of his black cargo pants. Then they went on to say Alexis was shooting people, Comey said, "in a way with no discernible pattern. He said the shooter was calmly moving without any particular direction or purpose.

This is just my opinion. We have so many people making excuses why they do what they do. I, they, she or he was hallucinating. I understand some people are truly has a mental illness. This has become the norm for people who is killing more than one person or someone who causes a huge havoc, such as the Washington DC tragedy with the individual drove all the way from conn. to D.C. to cause a tragedy.

Do we as American even know why people commit senseless murder. The most cause of murder is the following: bitterness, resentment, hatred, unforgiveness, violence, temper, anger, retaliation. When we see these type of people; we need to try to get help for them immediately. A lot of time we just rule these emotions off as to that just how they feel. They ain't going to do anything.

The first thing stuck in my mind about Aaron Alexis he didn't have no mental illness history. Could it be that tis young man had lost his sense of direction in life. The past failure could have been hunting him. Their is something in the dark we don't know. But Alexis knew. It doesn't matter in life that we are established. Alexis could have been feeling like he had no purpose. I don't believe he juat targeted anyone to shoot. Their was a type of people he selscted. If he just targeted anyone to shoot. Why didn't he go out into the streets. What I believe happened with him, he had been watching these people at work. Alexis had some angry feelings towards those individuals he worked with. I feel those hallucinations accusations were a cover up to a plot of person, who was already planning to snap.

I recalled the news said he called these agents complaining of a hallucination event concerning microwave events that was happening to him. Alexis said something about witchcraft. My thing is when Alexis called the agents complaining of these events that was happening to him. Why didn't someone try to get help for Alexis? These 13 lives could have been spared from a tragedy, but because of the carelessness and foolish thinking of the individual who took the call. OTT, this man is crazy.

Now we have 13 innocent people dead. I feel the ones who took the call should be put in jail because of their negligence to respond to someone who was crying out for help because they felt they were about to do something bad.

Anger can be deadly when carried out in silence. I had someone to kill my child in silence of anger and I've been molested in silence of anger. So I know we don't always get alerted of what is going to happen to us. Sometimes anger goes back far as childhood.

Just because a person has never appeared to have had any anger or mental health issues doesn't mean they are not. I am currently reading this book called Responding to Anger(a workbook) by Lorraine Bilodeau, M.S. I recommend it to all my viewers. We have to learn how to deal with our anger issues.

If you ran and hid when faced with parental anger, you will probably withdraw and hide now. It is not socially acceptable for an adult to go running from the room when someone is angry or to sit in a corner and cry. So instead, you escape or pout by using more subtle means such as ignoring the out burst, changing the subject, avoiding eye contact or limiting future contact with the person.

Another response is to become very placating. It is almost as though you want peace at any expense. You apologize often for things you can not control or did not do. Someone gets angry and your first words are "I'm sorry".

If you were aggressive as a child, you may still be aggressive, or you may have modified the overtly aggressive behaviors into the more hidden or acceptable styles of punishments or argument. Punishment has a strong flavor of revenge. When someone is angry with you, you react by feeling anger. You hold onto that anger until you can get away and figure out how to get even.

A young man I know worked at an ice cream parlor. One day his boss became angry because he did not display the tubs of ice cream the way she wanted. She expressed her anger in a loud, long tirade. The young, although furious, said nothing but " yes ma'am, I'll fix it. Later, the young man, still seething from the boss' harsh words, looked around to make sure he was alone, opened his pants and peed in the tub of vanilla ice cream.

Our crime rates of murder and robbery has grown because people are not drinking to be drinking or getting high on drugs because they are trying to cover pain only in these days of time.

All the things going on in the world today. Is because somebody is angry. My message to America today. I want you to stop where you are; ask yourself who or what made me mad? Tell yourself I am going to deal with my own issue. I will not include anyone else. I will not do anything out of self pity(poor old me.) Nobody cares.

Start caring about yourself. In return others will care about you.

Americans need to stop the copy-cat crimes, sensless murders, dragging others dirty laundry through the mud, stop living carelessly that affecting others, stop the vehicle homicides. Leave these people belongings alone (get your own -stop robbery) stop stealing the governments money. Stop the foolishness in our society.

Start caring about others and listen to others. Start loving. If you need help, get counseling for your anger issue and feeling towards certain types of people. Get HELP! In life we all encounter situations weather its been because of our poor choices or someone else's poor choices. It's time to stop making excuses for the bad choices in life that we make. It's time to deal with whatever is bothering you.

If you try to get help in a professional way. They won't listen to you. Start putting these people in these different professions that say they got all these degrees, in the spotlight. I don't care if it's the police. Sue their buttocks off. Enough is enough!

America is a great place to live. But all this foolishness of anger raging has got to completely stop.

Be encouraged America and keep your head up. Things can change for the best for anyone. We as individuals have to put the effort forward for that change to happen. We have to look at the big picture, not just the part we want to see.

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Jennifer Johnson

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Lkifer76 Posted 10 years, 12 months ago. ✓ Mailed 10 years, 11 months ago   Favorite
Thanks for writing! I worked on the transcription for your post.

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