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DOES PERSONAL SAFETY= GUN AT THE READY? |
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Personal firearms ownership still exists today even if it is frayed along the edges by a bit of government regulation, although some would arguably call it intervention. Even though we in theory are guaranteed gun rights, these rights, so to speak, are constantly being tested with the day-to-day rules policies or guidelines of the personal world we live in, while in fact the world we live in may be more dangerous. Today where you live often impinges on the ability to carry and have a gun “with us as a constant companion” as Thomas Jefferson said in part.
It is important to remember that your personal safety does not always mean having a gun in your hand at every instant. Many of life’s everyday issues including potential life threatening ones can be resolved by simple avoidance. Either by choice, or regulation by our place of employment or the restrictive laws of where we live, often means we simply can’t always have a gun. So how could this point of fact be addressed to avoid problems?
Two things come to mind that should help most of us, and these fall under "it doesn't matter what your occupation is" heading. |
| PERSONAL AWARENESS |
Simply put many people are not aware of what is going on around them. Stuck in their own bubble they wander around in what we jokingly refer to as the IOWA mode- Idiots Out Wandering Around. This mode is a condition that causes people to run into each other with their cars while rubber necking to look at an existing accident. It causes people to be curious when in fact we know from childhood that “curiosity killed the cat.” This lack of awareness causes us to walk to our car in a parking lot without having our keys at the ready and in hand. If we thought we heard something that sounded like gunfire why would we go to see what it was—cops go to the sound of gunfire as well do the military—but as a civilian why not simply go the other way?  If you were cut off in traffic by some knot head would you chase him to “show him
a thing or two”? Even more important would you chase him while your family was in the car? Maybe the cell phones we see glued to everyone’s ear now a days could come in handy about now? A good description is always better than a confrontation. So even more simply put are we aware of who, what, where, when and the whys of life that are happening around us? Don’t be a sheep…be alert, be aware of your surroundings. As an example…what is that guy in the mall public parking lot doing with a rifle?
I think you get it.
As a side note to the aforementioned law enforcement and military people going to the sound of gunfire thing…I still suggest that even they do so with caution…lots of good people from those two professions have been killed by lucky idiots.
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| PERSONAL TACTICS |
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These are not tactics as in battlefields or physical maneuvers although they are very similar in nature. Personal tactics are simple things, like where did you park your car at the mall and will it be a good place two hours from now after the sun goes down and you come back in the dark to your vehicle. Does your seat at the restaurant allow you to see the door in case an armed robber comes into the business? This is not so you can draw your gun and start shooting to protect someone else’s money. Personally, I could care less about the money, but I would rather not be shot in the back of the head while looking in the wrong direction just to eat a burger.
If you heard a noise just outside your bedroom door or house at night should you turn on the bedroom light and then proceed to open the door to the darkened hallway? Should you take a gun and exit your house in the dark to confront a prowler that may not really be a prowler? Is the vogue application of your middle age “inner bad ass” ego more important than the safety of your family? Responding officers if any, will simply encounter an armed individual in the darkness at the back of a house— and no good will come of it.
Tactics are of a fashion an acquired skill and must be practiced. To practice and acquire the skills to defend your family doesn’t require attendance at a shooting school or runs through a ‘Kill House” whatever the hell that is. Buy a full length-dressing mirror and have another family member hide the mirror in the house any place a human could stand. Search for the mirror—no gun is required—when you find the mirror what you see in the mirror is what the threat could see if it was a fight with you. If you see a lot of you in the mirror it is probably a bad thing—people shoot you because they see you—don’t let them see you.
Everyone reading this is smart enough to know that bullets / projectiles go thru walls, but I would still rather have the bullet go thru the wall and then thru my jammy top rather than just getting a clean and clear shot at my Bennie the Do cotton pajamas that in the end make for crappy body armor. |
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OLD AGE |
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In the end your survivability will not be based solely on firearms alone, mental and physical conditioning, a mental and physical review of possible actions and responses before the fact along with a good dose of the application of personal awareness and personal tactics will go a long ways towards keeping you healthy in your older age.
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