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   Leftist Lawyer (leftistlawyer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 18:15:51 JST Leftist Lawyer

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   This is when I became involved in the discussion, and brought my trauma training to bear.

   I said:
   “The science is developing fast around what happens to our brains in situations like that. All it’s telling our body to do is survive. Our frontal lobes just stop working. Our vision narrows. Our bodies go numb from the rush of blood out of our extremities, and to our vital organs.”

   I went on, and this is where the story gets interesting.

   I said “For example, you’ve seen the #AcornCop video, right?”

   Conservatives: Crickets.
   Leftists: Nodding heads.

   To which I said, “I guess #FoxNews has a policy of never showing cops in a negative light, huh?”
   
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     Leftist Lawyer (leftistlawyer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 18:15:52 JST Leftist Lawyer

     My office is a partnership between two lawyers with wildly diverging political views. It works for us. It helps us serve a wider demographic, and helps us view a wide variety of issues from a wide political lens.

     We get into some pretty wild discussions, with staff being split fairly evenly politically as well. We were having one today at lunch. It concerned the physiological changes that occur in the brain and body under intense stress and/or trauma.

     As example, the conversation led to an incident about a year ago when a police chief, on a camping trip, shot and killed a man who had shot at him first during an altercation over a camping spot.

     My partner was telling the story when one of our paralegals asked, “why didn’t he shoot him in the knee or something“? To which my partner, who is also a concealed carry instructor, replied “because it’s a good way to get dead. While you’re aiming, they are shooting. You pick the largest point (chest) and tap tap. Two rounds and take cover.”

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