IN THIS lull between reports of massacres and terrorist events, I would like to suggest strategies for dealing with these extremely alarming and disturbing incidents, events which are having such a profound effect on our world. Surely, there will be more.

“Conspiracy” researchers will continue to investigate each and every report, but it takes time for them to sift through it all. They commit inevitable mistakes and blunders, and sometimes seem to suggest that everything in the news is disinformation. Everything in the news is not disinformation. Deception is embedded in truth. Perhaps you reject all of their skepticism and have a rock-solid confidence in the non-existence of mass manipulation. In any event, most people do not have time or energy to apply a searing skepticism to the news and find out what is true and what is false.

In light of this, consider responding in the following way whenever a mass shooting or terrorist event occurs:

* Follow written reports (or none at all) and avoid imagery, which is more emotionally powerful and prone to manipulation. Obviously those researching the media presentation of these events must look at the imagery, but you don’t need to if you don’t want to get caught up in the details or fear falling into a universal skepticism that is confusing.

* Reject “gun control.” The solution is armed citizens, not “gun control.” School massacres can be prevented by a minority of armed teachers or administrators trained in the use of firearms.

* Reject increased security. Protest it. Refuse the police state. Reject empowerment of the profit-making security industrial complex. People are making vast sums of money off our fears and have a financial stake in inflaming them. Enhanced security and surveillance demoralize, dehumanize and create a climate of constant tension by their very existence and pose an extreme threat to our liberties.

* Reject all international military solutions to domestic terror events and all interference in the affairs of other countries. Too many good and decent soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians have lost their lives in the “War on Terror,” which is not in our national interest.

* Reject fear. Pray for confidence and hope.

We can defeat “terror.” With truth, patience, confidence and heroism, we can prevail.

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