The last two blogs prior to this one have been focused on the Las Vegas shooting and connections to Antifa, as well as, evidence that proves multiple shooters on sight... Ninjutsu is not a martial art and, no martial art would have helped anyone survive the mass shooting that took place in Vegas.
Martial arts were originally designed for battlefield usage by professional soldiers. But, as time went on and tactics changed with technology, so did martial arts either as systems attempting to maintain a lost tradition or, as sports. Firearms, matchlock rifles made use of spear and halibred fighting techniques for the bayonets. Eventually they were they were replaced with rifles and pistols that allowed even more shots to be fired. Today some weapons hold 200 rounds and can fire 600 rounds a minutes, those these are belt fed machine guns available only to the military.
The internet has made the knowledge to build bombs, improvised firearms and so on freely and readily available. Certainly the disturbed teenage boys who killed so many in a school in Columbine didn't got to the middle east to learn to build bombs... No they got plans from the Anarchist Cookbook and built their own.
Welcome the 21st century and a new era of threats. In the new era of potential threats martial arts is generally useless, except under certain conditions. Terrorists of all stripes, criminals and the insane can learn to build bombs, improvise weapons, tactics and harm you with relative ease.
While some may scream for gun control, guns make up only a very portion of violent acts. The Muslim women who ran people over with a car did not use a gun and, the neither did Timothy McVeigh. While martial arts might help one in a fight, many people will resort to using weapons... We live in a time when knowledge has increased and with it the risks to personal safety.
More so, a valid argument against Gun Control is found in US Supreme Court Case Warren V. District of Columbia in 1981, "police have no constitutional duty to protect individuals." And was cited in 2005 in court case that was covered by the New York Times. The police do not exist to protect abd serve the community, they protect and serve the GOVERNMENT. You simply don't matter enough and, must therefore seek to protect and defend yourself. Any martial will do and, in the 21st Century many people train in MMA and contact sport martial arts for fitness and conditioning for conflict. As most violence is Socialized Violence lacking any intent to do severe harm. Additionally they study traditional arts for history and culture and, self-defense combatives to learn effective techniques for use with intent to do serious harm. The key element is that ninjutsu is not a martial art, so it can be applied to any martial art system.
Now lets ask the real question, how can ninjutsu help you to survive an active shooter scenario? First off, ninjutsu is ancient Japanese Scout and Spycraft. Those particular skill sets address things like escape and evasion training that, stealth, survival and avoidance. What does this mean? It means that if you ignore things like mystical sakki training and, apply some educated awareness to your situational awareness. You have to realize the term "Situational Awareness" comes from the Military and, service men and women have a military intelligence network and get safety briefs from their chain of command about potential threats.
As a civilian the best you can do is use the internet, watch the news and study tactics and delevop your own emergency plans. It is not only taking personal responsibility for your safety by carrying a self-defense weapon, observing your environment, training in martial arts, paying attention to the news and information about threats online but, also knowing basic tactics for paramilitary groups, most common operations methods for groups and common tactics used by most criminals...
Now how would that have helped people under attack by a rifleman from a window in Las Vegas?
1. It would have began with answers to the following questions, answers no one would have unless they asked themselves...
* What are the most common and most dangerous threats to your safety today?
* What are the goals of those who threaten your safety?
* Am I a target by any political groups, criminal organizations or terrorist groups and why?
* What is the security where are you at?
* How will you respond in the extreme case of a serious threat?
* What are the most common and likely tactics used by those extreme case scenarios?
2. Is another simple question, what can you do about it?
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