A Letter to Congress – By Rich Woldt CEO Risk Management Learning Center

I missed the listening sessions on gun violence in our society and active shooting incidents in

our schools. I had to be in Arizona assessing risks to U.S. agriculture created by our failure to

secure our borders or curb illegal immigration. They’re enormous. Unfortunately, our attention

has been focused away from violence on our border to a rehash of how stricter gun controls

impact crime and violence in our society. History proved the more controls placed on a free

society the higher are our crime rates and the more dangerous society becomes.

Our 25 States that allow citizens to strap on a gun without a permit are the safest.

Four out of five murders in the US are committed in the other 25. Illinois, New York,

and California have the strictest gun controls and are called “Murder Capitols of the

World.” Christopher Dorner is killing California citizens because they’re “sitting ducks”

unable to defend themselves. Federal gun controls have no place in a free society.

Switzersand’ gun legislation that required citizens to own guns and learn to shoot helped curb

violence on their streets while equipping them to hold off Hitler’s army until allies came to their

rescue (click here). Much of Hitler’s success has been credited to his inspiring speeches that

convinced his followers to first register their firearms and then lay them down.

Wake up Congress! While we debate our right to bear arms, the Obama administration has

been selling assault weapons to Mexican drug lords through Fast and Furious. Now he’s

opening our borders to illegal immigrants, and giving our high tech tanks and fighter jets to

Egypt, knowing full well their President Mohamed Morsi is a staunch supporter of the Muslim

Brotherhood, calling our ally Israel’s Jewish descendents blood-suckers, apes, and pigs. Let’s not

forget his whispering to Russia’s leaders to “Wait until I’m re-elected before bringing up a

reduction in our European nuclear defense shields.”

Gun ownership is not our greatest risk. In 2008 the CIA reported sophisticated malicious worm

attacks (Flame and Stuxnet) against IT systems controlling our infrastructure. Such attacks can

shut down electric power distribution and data acquisition systems around the world.

We know terrorists sympathetic to extreme Muslim fundamentalist use the internet to recruit

disgruntled prisoners, students, and corporate Americans. If asked, “Should the US expect

another 9-11-01 type attack?” They reply, “Why take down a tiger when there are so many

sheep willing to be slaughtered?” Obama’s code name on terrorist websites is; “The Sheppard.”

Cyber forensic experts warn that cyber terrorists are downloading public records the moment

they’re posted. They then link names to social media accounts including u-Tube before creating

resumes for recruits who’ll soon be embedded in our society. We’re wasting time debating gun

controls while cyber terrorists are busy capturing our next generation.

While federal gun registration and stricter gun controls might calm the hysteria brought on by

active shootings in our schools, they’ll do nothing more than give us a “false sense of security”

while placing the US in the cross-hairs of our enemies. While our Commander in Chief telegraphs

our withdrawal from combat, foreign terrorists are digging-in in North Africa, North Korea, and

Mexico and domestic recruits are moving into the inner circles of corporate America. Get ready

for the brain drain to China when our economy goes over the cliff. Why are we debating

whether or not free Americans should have to ask the federal government for permission to

defend themselves? Terrorists are on the way! We don’t have time to debate.

Background Checks! The Good, Bad, and Useless!

By: Rich Woldt – Private Investigator

Background checks triggered by the purchase of a firearm are expensive and seldom give more

than a momentary impression of an applicant’s state of mind or criminal history. At best they

offer a dated personal profile that could change in a heartbeat, a turn in the economy, bump in

a marriage, or love interest gone missing. True, a background check can uncover convictions

but it says little about how many times a subject’s been arrested, prosecuted, or jumped bail.

They say nothing of expunged records let alone with whom they’ve lived or associated.

Background checks have a half-live less than the ammunition that comes with a gun purchase.

They’re expense, a low priority for most overworked agents, rely too heavily on the training and

experience of those doing the backgrounds, and last but not least they give a false sense of

security to those who deserve better while exposing all concerned to enormous faithful

performance and legal liability law suits. While background checks are a waste of time for

some, they’re also a duplication of efforts for many who’ve been checked and rechecked

throughout their careers. For example, I’ve had background checks done by my employers, by

InfraGard, when I qualified for my conceal carry permit both in Utah and Wisconsin, several

times while in the military, and when I obtained my private investigator’s license.

In each case the background check was conducted, not to obtain a momentary snapshot of my

character and trustworthiness, but to establish a long term professional association with

organizations who’ve continued a vested interest in my future. Consequently, every time I’m

tempted to risk my reputation or do something stupid, I remember my PI license, my conceal

carry permits, my military honor, and my career are on the line. Few people go through life

without having a background check from time to time. Often, a background check in more

detail than those proposed when purchasing a gun.

I recommend, rather than relying on costly background checks of limited value, we encourage

gun owners to join and support already in place federal homeland security programs and

projects such as our US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice’ Operation Cooperation (click

here), our FBI’s InfraGard project that reports suspicious persons and activity to federal

authorities (click here). Let’s promote membership in and credentialing of those who play an

active role in our Homeland Security Public-to-Private Partnerships and professional security

associations such as ASIS International (click here) as well as law abiding groups such as the

NRA, Force, chartered rod and gun clubs, neighborhood watches, etc. Hitler’s strategy was to

“divide and concur,” demonized those with guns then disarmed them before leading them to

the slaughter. There are wolves and sheep in our society. We need more “sheepdogs” on our

streets to protect and defend those on their way to be slaughtered. Click here to train yours.

Congress:

“I’d stake my life on one veteran tested

under fire before I’d trust my back to

1,000 gun applicants reporting in with

glorious background checks.”

Rich Woldt -Vietnam 1968 – 1970

www.DoorCountyVeterans.com

Scott McFarlane - Door County Veteran Service Officer

Rich Woldt – VFW Post 8337 Commander

Veteran organizations (VFW, American Legion, AMVET posts, and Marine Corp Leagues, etc.)

are failing because WWII, Korean and Vietnam War vets are dying and troops returning home

fail to replenish our ranks. Veteran organizations should represent the best of our best

homeland security assets fresh off the battle field and mission ready to rescue communities in

harm’s way. Yet, we’re marching with antique WWII weapons, recruiting pall-bears from

retirement homes, and forced to mobilize joint operations when raising funds or supporting our

troops. It’s time to muster our troops and stand mission ready with the DOJ (Click here).

Rather than disarming our country, congress should be rebuilding veteran’ organizations, rearming

troops tested under fire, and preparing citizens to hold the fort anytime public sector response assets

are overwhelmed by the scope or exhausted by the duration of a life threatening incident.

Controlling school violence must be “bi-patrician” with everyone on board and willing to fund cost

effective risk controls over the long haul. While strict gun controls might be politically expedient, they

only raise the “security expectation” bar which in turn creates Lack of Faithful Performance and Security

Liability risks. Google “school security liability” and tap into www.asisonline.org articles dealing with the

rise in security liability before passing any gun control legislation or promulgating any gun regulation.

Managing Active Shooting Risks in our Schools

Excerpts from Guarding the Door - By Rich Woldt CEO – The Risk Management Learning Center

Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee. He began with a poem he’d written the night before:

Your laws ignore our deepest needs.

Your words are empty air. You've stripped away our heritage.

You've outlawed simple prayer. Now gunshots fill our classrooms,

and precious children die. You seek for answers everywhere,

and ask the question "Why?" You regulate restrictive laws through legislative creeds.

And yet you fail to understand that God is what we need!

Click here for his reprinted testimony

Restrictive gun control legislation in the U.S. that bans assault weapons or rounds a pathological nut-job brings to the scene haven’t worked before and they’ll not work now. The facts are: Illinois, California, New York, and Washington D.C. have the strictest gun laws in the U.S. yet they're considered the "Murder Capitals of the World." On the other hand, Sweden’s gun laws requiring each household to have a gun is credited for holding off Hitler’s army and currently credited for ranking Sweden one of the safest countries in which to live, work, and raise a family.

Click here to learn more. Sweden demonstrated the benefits of having armed citizens actively involved in their homeland security. Credit unions around the world practice “Crime Prevention through Environmental Designs (CPTED) to control burglary, robbery, and violence in the workplace risks. Communities across the U.S. have formed “Public to Private Partnerships” that stand mission ready to respond anytime public sector response assets are overwhelmed by the scope or exhausted by the duration of a community crisis. We need only to learn from our experience, incorporate security “best practices” in our homeland security protocols, and empower our citizens to take immediate action anytime they’re caught in the line of fire or our homeland stands in harm’s way. Veterans Click here and corporate America here and get involved. Study at www.RMLearningCenter.com and join a homeland security partnership near you.

Background checks have little benefit when rooting out potential shooters. “Guns don’t kill people, ignoring social media does! “ Rich Woldt

It appears the media is hiding portions of the LAPD shooter’s manifesto because it highlights his love for the left-wing media and political ideology. The media version is available from Clear Channel Communications pdf. CLICK HERE

Timothy James "Tim" McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

Timothy McVeigh

Click here to profile.

He worked dead-end jobs, voiced fears of going nowhere, tried a well-trod escape route -- the

Army -- but bailed out as the military downsized with the fall of communism. Like millions in

his generation, he ended up back home as an adult, a man sleeping in a boy's room, headed

exactly where he'd feared: nowhere.

For the most part, any aberrations in Tim McVeigh's life were hidden under an exterior so bland

as to be nondescript. Many acquaintances had to struggle to think of something -- anything -- to

relate about him. His interest in firearms was known only to friends who also liked them; a good

friend from the track team never even knew McVeigh owned a BB gun. In retrospect, merely

appearing regular seems to have been a lifelong pursuit.

"There's nothing alarming about him -- nothing," this person said. "He's respectful of his elders,

he's polite. When he expresses political views, for most of what he says, Rush Limbaugh is

scarier. That's what's incredibly frightening. If he is what he appears to be, there must be other

people out there like him. You look at him and you think: This isn't the end of something; this is

the beginning of something."

Psychologists have warned for years that young people like McVeigh born in the late 1960s,

whose families fractured in record numbers, whose economic frustrations far exceed those of

their parents, are unusually alienated and vulnerable to fringe movements. In this view, the social

and economic upheavals of the last 20 years have planted a virus in American society with still

unrealized capacity for damage.

Adam Lanza

On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members

at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut.[4][5]

Before driving to the school, Lanza had shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their

Newtown home.[7][9][10]

As first responders arrived, Lanza committed suicide by shooting

himself in the head.

Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty

children and six adult staff members at

Sandy Hook Elementary School

The incident was the second

deadliest school shooting in

United States history, after the

2007 Virginia Tech massacre. It

was also the second-deadliest

mass murder at an American

elementary school, after the 1927

Bath School bombings in

Michigan.

James Eagan Holmes

James Eagan Holmes is the suspected perpetrator of a mass shooting that occurred on July 20, 2012 at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, which killed 12 people and injured 58 others. He had no known criminal record prior to the shooting

Born: December 13, 1987 (age

25), San Diego

Nationality: American

Education: University of

Colorado School of Medicine

(2012), More

James Eagan Holmes

Jared Lee Loughner

Click here to complete his

profile.

Changes in attitude and

demeanor

Jared Lee Loughner: born September 10, 1988)[1]

is an American

who pleaded guilty to 19 charges of murder and attempted murder

in connection with the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8,

2011, in which he shot and severely injured U.S. Representative

Gabrielle Giffords, his target, and killed six people, including Chief

U.S. District Court Judge John Roll, as well as a 9-year-old girl,

Christina-Taylor Green.[2][3][4][5][6]

Loughner shot and injured 12

other people, and one man was injured while subduing him.[7]

Acquaintances said that Loughner's personality had changed

markedly in the years prior to the shooting, a period when he was also

abusing alcohol and drugs. He had been suspended from Pima

Community College in September 2010 because of his bizarre

behavior and disruptions in classes and the library. After his arrest,

two medical evaluations diagnosed him as paranoid schizophrenic

and incompetent to stand trial. He was medicated while in jail as part

of his treatment. He was again judged incompetent in May 2012. In

August 2012, he was judged competent to stand trial, and at the

hearing, he pled guilty to 19 counts. In November 2012, he was

sentenced to life in prison without parole.

During the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011 at least one person in the store was carrying a gun. He told me he regrets knowing he’d just gone back into the store to get something but was toward the back of the store when the shooting started. Had he known he would have been able to approach the shooter from behind the stone pillars for cover and

concealment. Rich Woldt – CEO The Risk Management Learning Center

Risk Management to the rescue!

Risk Management (RM) is a “method of

management” that identifies, measures, and controls

the risks we face each day. We all face two types of

risk in life, “Pure” and “Speculative.” When a pure

risk occurs you only suffer losses while when you

create a speculative risk you hope to make a gain but

you could suffer a loss. Getting shot during an armed

robbery is a “pure” risk while carrying a gun is

speculative. Click here to protect political dignitaries.

Records of shooters in US schools date back to

the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July

26, 1764 when four Lenape American Indians

entered a schoolhouse near what’s now

Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed

schoolmaster Enoch Brown, and nine or ten

children (reports vary). Only three children

survived (Click here). Active shooting incidents

are no more frequent or severe in 2013 than

they were centuries ago. It’s just we’re now all

bombard by different angles of the same story,

leading us to over kill one risk while creating

others even more serious.

We’re all responsible for our self defense. It’s

time we learn to profile those moving from

character disorders to a potential threat to our

schools. To the degree they pose a threat it’s

time we hold ourselves accountable for the

tattoos, t-shirts and temperament we display to

others. Click here and test your knowledge of

gang tattoos and here to order t-shirts common

on campus. Guns are not our problem.

Go to www.RMLearningCenter.com and learn

about the dark side of background checks.

We’re proud to have Florence Rogers on our Risk

Management Advisory Board. Florence is a

survivor of the Oklahoma City bombing. You can

read an RM whitepaper Florence wrote on the 11th

anniversary of the bombing in our RMLC library.

No matter what the violent act might be, the path to

recovery from its trauma is similar. Read our

whitepaper on trauma management. Rich Woldt

It’s time we realize we’ll never be able to totally avoid violence so we need to focus on RM controls that will at least reduce its frequency and severity. We need a country wide public to private partnership that includes all segments of our society. We have a great start. For example, click here and be familiar with what the Department of Justice DOJ has doe.

A Heads Up from our Founding Fathers

Excerpts from Guarding the Door - By Rich Woldt

If our Founding Fathers could talk, they’d tell us we’re in this life together, no one has all the right answers, and no one in the room was born yesterday. They’d remind us we’ve been fighting for freedom, putting up with illegal immigrants, and battling bad weather, floods, pandemics, bullies, and terrorists since the American Revolution. They’d acknowledge bleeding hearts and ultra conservatives have claimed the high-road for centuries, will continue to protest until the cows come home, and we’ve been fighting Marxists, Leninists, Fascist, Communists and Kings for over 212 years, and yet their ideologies are still alive and well in Washington. George Washington would be the first to warn “If we give the enemy an inch, they’ll take a foot!”

Their best advice might be; to learn from history, get along but don’t burry our heads in the sand just to

keep the peace, pray often, and always trust in God. George Washington said, “It’s impossible to rightly

govern the nation without God and the Bible.” We’d be cautioned not to shoot-to-kill those with whom

we disagree, for we might be on the same side of the fence during the next campaign. Before we dig in,

we should put our ears to the ground to hear our enemies coming, take the high ground for the best

battle view, and cut them off at the pass when possible. Keep our powder dry, wait until we see the

whites of their eyes, shoot straight, and never retreat until the battle is won. Never leave our guard

down or turn our backs to the enemy. And, never sell or give a potential enemy our guns, ammunition,

tanks, ships, fighter jets, technology or radio stations. All will eventually be used against us and our

allies. Always ride the fastest horse and never bring only a knife to a gun fight. Be bold, be courageous,

pray often, and never go to war without God on our side. Never ever lead from behind!

They’d remind us that most have common sense yet many fail to use it. They’d tell us they’re angered by

those who failed to fight to protect our unborn, turned their backs to their church, and denied God to

get along. They’d bemoan the many who’ve died to secure our freedom, defend our homeland, and

safeguard our destiny, while so many remain unwilling to be counted, fight for freedom, or take risks to

chart their destiny. Finally, they’d remind us it’s our constitution that guards freedom, Bill of Rights that

preserves our liberty, and history that alerts us to tyranny.