The problem of defense
Jennifer posts a story of a a colleague who is confident that her attitude is going be an effective defense.
Here’s the problem with that strategy. A confident look will deter attackers who are deterred by a confident look. It may encourage a goblin into finding a different prey item. But then again, it may not. And then you are left without much place to go.
This is the exact same problem that we face with pepper spray, stun guns, brass knuckles, harsh words, angry gestures, and self-imposed vomiting. They all work…until they don’t. And when they don’t, you are awfully likely to find yourself without a lot of good options.
Folks, I’m going to let you in on a set of uncomfortable realities:
- You may, at some point in your life, be required to defend your life or the life of someone you love.
- There is no way to predict when or where you might need to do this.
- When that moment comes, you will have seconds to take action
Once you come to terms with this uncomfortable reality, why on earth wouldn’t you choose to have the tool that would be best able to do the job? Namely, prevent your death and/or maiming, or to prevent it from happening to someone you love?
A difficult lesson
I’ve written in this forum before that one of the hardest steps in becoming an armed American is internalizing the knowledge that there are people out there who don’t think like you do. They don’t see fellow human beings, they see resources to exploited. Robbing or maiming or even killing you is just like picking an apple from a tree. Alan at SnarkyBytes has a link to the story of a man who learned this fact the hard way.
Like Alan said…pay attention to what is going on around you.
Some Good Advice
There are lots of myths about self defense out there. Here is a list of the some common ones.
My favorite is number 10. Yes, you learn how to protect those parts pretty quickly.
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Do your part!
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