[Kartographer]

As always sobering firsthand experience from Selco.

[Kartographer]

Prepper’s PING!!

[Adder]

Just wow.

I always like to think should the scenario arise I would kill without compunction. And in certain circumstances I surely would.

When SHTF, I hope I can function in the myriad dangerous situations that will present them selves.
I hope.

Or else you are dead....

[Jolla]

Interesting, I was just thinking last night that one thing about the future is we have all been safe in our American cocoon for a long long time, so many of us will have a hard time if there comes a time we are each responsible literally for our own life.

[trisham]

Imho, no one can know how they will respond until it actually happens.

[catnipman]

Don’t forget:

“Officer, I was in fear of my life. I’d like to speak to my attorney now.”

[Sergio]

bkmk

[PubliusMM]

People who choose to manage their own safety to the maximum need to become proficient with their chosen self-defense weaponry. And, they need to seriously consider the lengths to which they are willing to go to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their property.
I highly recommend the book “On Killing” by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. It’s a good starting point in the process.

[Organic Panic]

Combat situations can not be prepared for. To paraphrase Saving Private Ryan, “You do the thing you’re scared of then find the courage after.”

[Tijeras_Slim]

Dave Grossman’s works are also worthwhile on this.

[samiam1972]

I had trouble killing a snake by our back door last week. I really wanted my husband to be home so he could do it for me. Not my lucky day. I managed to kill it but I’m afraid it was a ridiculous scene full of turmoil. For a snake. I can’t even imagine how I’d react if I had to kill another human being. God willing, I’ll never have to find out.

[semaj]

Be careful, you may start enjoying it..

[archy]

There was urban myth, that one officer from the army was asked something like „Captain, these young guys that we just killed in huge numbers, there are still kids left, they do not know anything, what do we do with them?“

Officer said „ We do what we do, it is our way of life“ - See more at: 3 Things You Need to Know About Killing

Which was why the Finns, during their four-month-long Civil War of 1918, managed to kill off about 1% of their national population during that very bitter exchange....in about 120 days. By comparison, during the four years of the also very contentious and brutal United States Civil War of 1861-1864, managed to kill off around 2.5% of the population...in four years

One reason: the Finns, knowing they had to introduce an entire generation of young soldiers to the realities of their new trade, oft times put the new trainees to work bayonetting the enemy prisoners, particularly the wounded not worth the waste of a perfectly good rifle cartridge. And a generation later, those once-yung lads became the sergeants and lieutenants who led Finland's citizen-soldiers when a million and a half Soviet troops invaded Finland in 1939....and left, about four months later, having suffered better than 800,000 casualties.

In case you ever wondered why the gun control goons have been so concerned about bayonet lugs being present on *assault weapons* in the hands of American shooters and veterans, that's why.

Note in the photo below from Finland's 1918 war that the four barely-teenagers are wearing not Finnish military decorations, but the German Iron Cross, likely marking them as being in service with the German 27 Jaegers assisting and training the Finns. I do not expect the boys earned those decorations for careful penmanship or getting their library books back on time.