Shy-ism: “Guns have a bad enough reputation. If I want to kill you I’ll use a bicycle spoke.”
That was true last year, it’s true today. In the real world, there will always be guns in the hands of bad people. Any who think different are living in Utopia and have no business walking the streets.
But just because there will always be guns does not mean we will always be able to use them, or want to.
Backing up a bit…
As I go about the chores in town, I watch people. Always have, always will. Just my nature- I can usually tell what a person will do just by watching them walk. I watch hands all the time ‘cuz hands kill. Some say ‘if looks could kill’, but they don’t, it’s the hands- but I watch eyes, too, cuz they say sooo much. One thing I see a lot of now in everyone’s eyes is distrust.
A lot of distrust. Standing in line at the checkout counter I see it in the eyes of the black clerk ringing up my sale. I see it in the eyes of those around me. I see tremendous distrust, bordering on fear, in the eyes of the blacks I encounter on the streets. In the eyes of Muslim friends, I see wonder and distrust. Even as well as some of these people know me, have conferred about our differing religious philosophies, have drunk coffee hours on end discussing them… now there is that little nagging distrust of me.
And I’m sure they see the same in me.
And it bothers me. But today it’s a fact of life.
No longer can we discuss our differences with candor and security. Ft Hood ended that with sharp clarity. The Muslims I know are not wild, “kill the Infidel” types, but they’ve been branded by their homeland, and American, clerics and the radicals performing Jihad in America. The pseudo-Christian in the White House has performed admirably in creating this air of distrust with his laying aside our laws and initiating his own brand of law, not justice or reason.
No longer do I trust them as I used to- and perhaps with reason, perhaps not. We have that lack of trust and fellowship between us now and it’s going to stay. At times I feel it’s being encouraged by both-sides-of-the-fence people.
So I watch people’s eyes and hands. And I watch their feet. Bill Wallace can kick at sixty miles an hour. One-tenth of a second from the ground to the jaw of a six-foot tall man. Others can kick nearly as well. I could, so I know others can. I watch feet.
Back to the present…
Guns aren’t necessary to kill someone, they just make it easier and less personal.
Many dead husbands can attest to their (still) living wife’s ability with a butcher knife. I’d rather face a drunk with a gun than an enraged woman with a knife. Any day.
Knives are becoming the weapon of choice for personal carry and defense to back up the gun on the belt. Often it’s the knife that is the first line of defense in a close-up and personal encounter.
Carry a knife in your pocket. Better still, carry a clip-on skeleton blade and learn to draw and open it quickly with minimal motion of your hand. Spend hours learning it. Days. Spend as much time learning it as you do drawing your gun. And while you’re learning to draw and open, think about how you’re going to slice and dice a meatloaf sandwich out of the person in front of you. That punk attacking you is not a human being, they are a savage animal and you must be a more savage animal. Saving your life isn’t a time for niceties and please and thank you. Get used to it- Ladies, too. Just because the punk on TV is a male gender type does not mean the girls aren’t going to be as cruel, or worse.
It wasn’t just boys chasing a kid across an alley with a two-by-four. They were cheered on and accompanied by girls. Laughing, don’t-give-a-shit-girls who’d have no qualms about slicing you for lunchmeat. Girls who laughed about what they were seeing and doing and cell-phoning to their friends.
What about when you get knocked on your ass amid a pile of rubbish? How quickly can you visualize a weapon in that pile of refuse? That stick? That discarded belt (or the one on your waist)? That old wornout toothbrush? We got a taste of improvised weapons most recently by Jason Bourne when he used a Bic pen to war against a knife. How about that purse or raincoat or shirt? What about that piece of rope? Even the bag of garbage? The book or magazine? When you hold your car keys, do you visualize a weapon or just a set of keys?
We have to begin thinking along those lines without reservation or fear of being made to look foolish. Anything you can pick up can be made a weapon that will kill. Maybe not as rapidly or at such great distance as a gun, but just as surely.
Just what is your life worth to you? Or your wife’s? Or your child’s? Or that old man being attacked by the punks running the neighborhood?
Why are those punks running your neighborhood?
Listening to newscasts… watching them on the tube… listening to conversations that I’m not privy to… in conversations I am part of… reading… everywhere. Absolutely everywhere is the racism gambit. Everywhere. No escape from the reality of it. Whether we want to or not, whether we like it or not, we are involved in a race war. Christian… Muslim… Pantheist… Gaia-ist… atheist… whether we want to or not, whether we like it or not, we are involved in an ideology war.
Some of those have announced intent to kill others and they mean it. It is their sole purpose for living.
How unprepared are you going to be when they come for you?
How prepared are you for living?
Are you going to fold and wait for God to send the cops? the military? hope that God Himself walks through the door to bless your antagonist and you?
I believe God helps those that help others.
The world has turned it to God helps those who help themselves.
Perhaps both aspects are right. I know He helps those who help others. And I know He has told us to help ourselves.
Be prepared. Be afraid, maybe very afraid. But don’t be so fearful you can’t defend yourself or others. Have your mind set on the battle coming to us all at a time we know not.
And don’t worry about those who are neither willing nor ready to help themselves by preparing. Get yourself prepared. Maybe you can help them and get a blessing yourself along the way.
God bless.
Shy III
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