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🗓️ 30 August 2025
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Lt Col Dave Grossman is a retired Army Ranger and author of several books including "On Combat", "On Killing" and "Assassination Generation". We talk about being a Sheepdog, the increase in school murders and much more.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, and speaker who is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime. Col. Grossman is a former West Point psychology professor, Professor of Military Science, and an Army Ranger who has combined his experiences to become the founder of a new field of scientific endeavor, which has been termed “killology.” In this new field Col. Grossman has made revolutionary new contributions to our understanding of killing in war, the psychological costs of war, the root causes of the current "virus" of violent crime that is raging around the world, and the process of healing the victims of violence, in war and peace.
Lt. Col. David Grossman is the author or co-author of five non-fiction and four fiction books. He has co-authored a New York Times bestselling book with Glenn Beck. His book On Killing has sold over a half million copies world-wide, has been translated into five languages, is on the US Marine Corps Commandant’s Required Reading List, and is required reading at the FBI academy and numerous other academies and colleges.
Col. Grossman co-authored Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, which has been translated into Norwegian and German, and has received international acclaim. Col. Grossman’s next book was On Combat, which has also placed on the US Marine Corps Commandant’s Required Reading List and is translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. His book Warrior Mindset, applies sport psychology and performance psychology to military and law enforcement, and his most recent book is Assassination Generation.
Col. Grossman has written 23 book chapters, and 35 book forwards. He has been called upon to write the entry on “Aggression and Violence” in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence, and he has authored or co-authored 43 articles in journals and Periodicals, to include the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Pediatric Annals.
He has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
He has presented to over 100 different colleges and universities world wide, and he has trained educators and law enforcement professionals, at the federal, state and regional level, in all 50 states and over a dozen foreign nations.
He helped train mental health professionals after the Jonesboro school massacre, and he was also involved in counseling or court cases in the aftermath of the Paducah, Springfield, Littleton, Virginia Tech, and Nickel Mines, PA Amish school massacre. In February, 2018, after the Parkland, FL school massacre, Col. Grossman was called to the White House to serve on President Trump’s Round Table on Violent Video Games.
He has been an expert witness and consultant in state and Federal courts, to include serving on the prosecution team in UNITED STATES vs. TIMOTHY MCVEIGH.
He has testified before U.S. Senate and Congressional committees on three different occasions, he has testified before numerous state legislatures, and he and his research have been cited in a national address by the President of the United States.
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0:00.0 | Welcome, guys, to episode 99 of Behind the Show of Podcast. My name's James Gearing. And this week, |
0:05.3 | I bring to you my second interview with Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, who is highly respected |
0:11.2 | in military law enforcement and other fields when it comes to the psychology of killing, |
0:16.8 | psychology of combat, and also the violence that we're seeing in our schools. So we were about to sit down |
0:24.2 | for our interview and I received a text from my stepson, Ethan, who is at the local high school |
0:31.9 | just down the road from our house. We started hearing all these sirens and these police cars and rescues flying by and being a firefighter |
0:40.8 | I had a very you know sickening feeling in my stomach that something was very very wrong and they |
0:46.2 | were all headed towards that direction and there's really only one main building over there which is |
0:50.8 | his high school so then we got some texts from him, and I'm going to read |
0:54.9 | them to you to kind of set up the premise for this interview today. The front office is getting |
1:00.4 | shot. There are shots. Don't call me. We're hiding. I'll be safe. I love you. I'll be fine. I've got a way to defend myself even if they come to the library of all places. |
1:15.6 | I'm in the library, in the dark. I hear radio saying they need security immediately in the front office. |
1:23.6 | I hear a lot of choppers and the sirens have gone away already. |
1:30.4 | So as it happened, that was a false alarm. |
1:33.5 | However, the neighboring high school, just to further to the eastern Ocala, actually had |
1:39.5 | an active killer, a murderer, come in an ex-student with the intent of killing as many students as he could. |
1:48.3 | So this is happening all over the place, and it's funny because I almost thought about releasing |
1:53.5 | this at certain times, but the irony is almost every single week we're seeing this happening |
1:59.3 | somewhere around the country now. |
2:07.1 | And we're throwing up our arms and then, you know, the social media wars begin of pro-gun, |
2:09.5 | anti-gun, you know, and all these other elements. |
2:15.7 | And what I love about Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman is he has some solutions and he is not by any means saying that what we talk about are the only |
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