Posted on 06/22/2013 8:34:12 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator
Which also means nobody is around to help.
Thanks for the links.
But it's pretty easy to identify those that won't.
/johnny
I don't, I'm the same way. 3 steps to a loaded firearm from anywhere in the house.
/johnny
My ex has been mugged 5 times. Even a lady at work politely said that ‘at times’ she doesn’t have a clue. I’m afraid she’ll die a violent death. Obama voter. Thinks guns are the problem. No street smarts.
My brother and I call them ‘zoo people’. They are used to having everything handed to them, never having to really worry about anyone hunting them, there is always food, water, medicine readily available, always an awning to hide under when it rains.
Zero situational awareness in urban areas, I don’t know how they even survive in modern world. For sure they would either have to learn fast or die in even a localized SHTF situation.
Perhaps :-)
Interesting discussion. I just had to check it out. 9 “strides” from shower is furthest. Guess I will have to arm the bathroom with more than “silent, but deadlies”.
I don't allow my grandkids to come into the house until they pass their NRA safety course. ;)
/johnny
I have been in several homes where one cannot get more than ten feet from a loaded gun (no lock, round in the chamber, safety off). I always feel safe in those homes, and I have never seen a kid touch a gun without permission in one of those homes.
To survive in jungle that is our Urban world, you need to have a combination of street smarts, guile, and instinct.
Do not underestimate their ability to survive.
Just because they choose not to live according to the “rules of society”, dont think for a second that they do not live quite well by the rules of the jungle.
They will live pretty well at first. If they make it through those first few scary days and weeks, they will ultimately fail when it comes time to work as part of a team, group, or self organized community.
Again, more of them will be shot.
I see all the grammar, syntax, and punctuation errors in this.
Then I see it’s Ferfal.
I forgive Selco and Ferfal their errors. I even catch myself reading Selco and hearing a Slavic accent.
Wrong word: Prescient.
And check six.
My parent both lived through the 67 riots in Detroit, and both told me that all of the men in their respective neighborhoods in the suburbs were out on their front porches with their rifles and shotguns waiting for the inner city folks to dare and try and loot their homes. Would have kicked off a race war if the blacks had tried.
I was raised in a house like that; firearms in corners behind outside doors, in gun racks in the house and in pickups- then pistols in nooks and crannies. I have no idea how dad trained us kids to leave that all alone, was too little to remember that training but would have never touched any of those firearms or anything related to them in a million years. I remember him teaching us safety and how to shoot when we were older but don’t remember the early toddler training we had to have. I was not necessarily afraid of firearms- just knew absolutely that I had to leave them alone.
We had a rule that I was certain would be enforced - touch a gun without permission, and you’re banned from shooting for a year. That is such an incredibly long time to a kid that none of us would have dared to break that rule, and I don’t think that punishment was ever imposed. We didn’t have guns very ten feet, but there were more than a dozen guns in our home. I hope the pendulum swings back in that direction in our society.
I worked in several posts in Africa that were a bit shaky. Many of the staff quarters were away from the embassy and were protected, as you described, with high walls with broken glass embedded on the top. Many of the quarters also had “rape rooms,” usually the master bedroom, protected by bars. I stayed in one in Lusaka, Zambia, like that. It also had a local unarmed guard patrolling during the night. Just to be safe inside the Rape Room, it was best to keep a shotgun.
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