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So…think you’re ready???
From the Survival Blog
For those of you that believe they’ve already prepared themselves. Let me drop a test scenario on you.
You’ve done all the right things. Prepped, stored, and relocated to your retreat in the wilds of Montana. An economic collapse was the culprit, just like you thought it would be. It’s been several weeks and your family is in a routine. Adjustments to your new life are going well.
However, a starving man and his family show up at your gate. The man and his wife are gaunt and drawn; clearly they had given whatever food they had to their three young children, now clinging to their mother’s leg. You decide not to draw your weapon as you approach because of the children. The man smiles as you get within speaking distance. It’s clear they need assistance and will likely beg for food. You planned for some charity like a good prepper and prepared yourself for how you would handle this—give them what you can, but be firm in asserting they move on and don’t come back.
Suddenly, the man’s smile slips away as he draws a pistol. He yells commands for you to disarm and voices his intention to take from you and your family. Clearly, he’s desperate—like you would be if you had to stare in to your family’s starving eyes every day and listen to their cries of hunger at night. The distance between you is 50 feet—an easy shot for you, as you’d practiced many times. You recognize the man is not an accomplished gunman by the way he holds the weapon and wields it carelessly. While he could get lucky, it’s not likely he would hit you. Frequently, he looks away to glance at his family—more than enough time for you to strip your pistol from its holster and double tap him. If you kill him, the man’s family will eventually suffer the same fate; wing him, and the result is still the same…just takes longer while they watch him die of infection.
He’s done talking, his gun fires…he misses you…he’s cocking it again…
What would you do? Is this one of the scenarios you fantasized about? Prepared for? Resolution of Action Taken has a whole new aspect to it now. You won’t be dealing with just the man’s death, but his family also…maybe they wouldn’t die, but what a tragic thing to witness for them. If you don’t think that will rattle around in your head for the rest of your life, you’re a sociopath. Bottom line: You’re alive, but your sanity and quality of life is dismal. In the end, you may have no choice except to defend yourself with extreme prejudice, but dealing with the aftermath will come hard.
You prepared to Resolve ridding the earth of a marauding biker gang, not the Brady Bunch—yet both scenarios are equally feasible in TEOTWAWKI.
For those of you that believe they’ve already prepared themselves. Let me drop a test scenario on you.
You’ve done all the right things. Prepped, stored, and relocated to your retreat in the wilds of Montana. An economic collapse was the culprit, just like you thought it would be. It’s been several weeks and your family is in a routine. Adjustments to your new life are going well.
However, a starving man and his family show up at your gate. The man and his wife are gaunt and drawn; clearly they had given whatever food they had to their three young children, now clinging to their mother’s leg. You decide not to draw your weapon as you approach because of the children. The man smiles as you get within speaking distance. It’s clear they need assistance and will likely beg for food. You planned for some charity like a good prepper and prepared yourself for how you would handle this—give them what you can, but be firm in asserting they move on and don’t come back.
Suddenly, the man’s smile slips away as he draws a pistol. He yells commands for you to disarm and voices his intention to take from you and your family. Clearly, he’s desperate—like you would be if you had to stare in to your family’s starving eyes every day and listen to their cries of hunger at night. The distance between you is 50 feet—an easy shot for you, as you’d practiced many times. You recognize the man is not an accomplished gunman by the way he holds the weapon and wields it carelessly. While he could get lucky, it’s not likely he would hit you. Frequently, he looks away to glance at his family—more than enough time for you to strip your pistol from its holster and double tap him. If you kill him, the man’s family will eventually suffer the same fate; wing him, and the result is still the same…just takes longer while they watch him die of infection.
He’s done talking, his gun fires…he misses you…he’s cocking it again…
What would you do? Is this one of the scenarios you fantasized about? Prepared for? Resolution of Action Taken has a whole new aspect to it now. You won’t be dealing with just the man’s death, but his family also…maybe they wouldn’t die, but what a tragic thing to witness for them. If you don’t think that will rattle around in your head for the rest of your life, you’re a sociopath. Bottom line: You’re alive, but your sanity and quality of life is dismal. In the end, you may have no choice except to defend yourself with extreme prejudice, but dealing with the aftermath will come hard.
You prepared to Resolve ridding the earth of a marauding biker gang, not the Brady Bunch—yet both scenarios are equally feasible in TEOTWAWKI.
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