Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable!

Nick, do you, or does the OP, have a wool carpet underfoot?  Leather-soled shoes?  Very often, the static charge happens because of what the user brings up to the turntable (what he or she is standing on, what shoes he or she is wearing) during the changing of an LP. Like you, I'd use the zerostat way before I would use the Gruv Glide, based on chayro's description of how the stylus must clean it off an LP.

I do have a big Persian rug that everything sits on. I've got the Milty, anti static brushes, creams, ointments, if it's anti static I've bought it! Again, vinyl is dead when pulled from jacket. Upon playing record, it's an electrical storm.

Low humidity in Miami is oxymoron :)  I'll keep blasting the vinyl with the Milty before and after each play. Maybe a better ground will help?

I have wall to wall carpeting made of some kind of synthetic.  
The thing is, I have two turntables in the same room.  The Dual and a Bluenote Bellavista Signature and that produces no static at all.  Of course the platter is not aluminum like the Dual's.

@lewm 

Very often, the static charge happens because of what the user brings up to the turntable (what he or she is standing on, what shoes he or she is wearing) during the changing of an LP.

Exactly, barefoot is what the OP should try first. 

P.S. Antistatic Gun = Zerostat