I'm here to talk to you today about something I wish we didn't have to talk about, but we do.

That's the reality of mass shootings and something that I think is going to make you feel less helpless that these things occur

and less helpless if you are unfortunate enough to be in that kind of situation

because I want to talk to you about situations, specifically situational awareness

and what it really is because it can make the difference

as to whether or not you come out of the situation or whether you don't.

Now, first, I don't want to do anything to trivialize, play down, or in any fashion minimize the tragedy of these situations.

But by the same time, I don't want to sensationalize, dramatize, or overstate them.

And we need to be aware of just how common these mass shootings really are. So I want to take a look historically

at how much exposure you have and what the risk really is, because they don't happen as much

as much as they seem. And it seems like they're happening

more than they used to, and they are. But they're also getting a lot more coverage because we have

the Internet right now. And that means that we've got around the clock coverage. We don't have a

24-hour news cycle. We have a 24-hour news cycle.

We have a 30-minute news cycle, sometimes even shorter than that.

And so these things do get a tremendous amount of coverage where they didn't in the past.

But let's look historically at how often these things do happen.

And when I say mass shootings, the Violence project, a group for whom I have a tremendous

amount of respect, define a mass shooting as four people killed in a public place, and it's not

primarily domestic. It's not a domestic violence situation, or it's not criminal, meaning that it's gang or drug-related.

They're talking about things outside of that definition.

And between 1966 and now, this is when they've started keeping that kind of a record,

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