w.i.d.T.h.6. Principles Chapter 4: T....

T is for Torque: a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion. Torque is circular motion basically. It's the foundation of traditional Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido and Hapkido. In fact Hapkido literally translates to "the way of the circle." These martial arts are all based on using circular motion to do throws, breaks and joint locks using momentum of circular movement. Essentially, using your whole body weight in torsion to defeat a single muscle or muscle group of your opponent's body to destroy their balance, break their bones or control and break their joints. Defensively, circular motion (like a running back spinning out of a tackle) breaks an opponent's holds on you. Torque can also be applied to understand armed combat, circular motion on the battlefield is called "flanking:" moving forces in a semicircle to attack an enemy from the side. This allows you to attack them one at a time instead of facing their entire force head-on. Even in a defensive shooting against multiple attackers, the same principle of moving laterally and forward to get the enemy in a line is a type of flanking maneuver. Circular motion has the added benefit of allowing you to see your entire surroundings. The key to situational awareness is knowing what's going on all the way around you. The phrase "keep your head on a swivel" is another form of Torque that provides situational awareness. So all of these circular type motions whether it's jujitsu's arm locks or hip throws, or flanking maneuvers in a defensive shooting, or encircling maneuvers in the military, I combine into one concept called Torque. Applying Torque to an opponent's body will throw him. Applying torque to an opponent's joints will break them. Applying Torque to an enemy formation will flank them. Applying Torque to the Head/Neck of an opponent will kill or paralyze him. Applying circular motion in a knife fight will expose the enemy's back, which is the best place to attack with a knife. Think in terms of circles. The bad guy is a lug nut, and you are the wrench breaking his grip, his balance, his focus, his vision, his bones and his brain by applying rotational force. That can be arm bars, hip throws, head throws, flanking maneuvers or neck breaks, the principle is all the same. The way of the circle is also the beginning foundation of SIXuational Awareness, the last chapter. Like and Share! Soule Easy 6 Training

w.i.D.t.h.6. Chapter 3: D...

Damage “It’s not how hard you hit, it’s where you hit.” Tim Larkin calls damage “Injury,” and he defines it as putting damage to either bodily structures or systems (senses or organs), without which a person cannot function when they're trying to hurt you. Damage is NOT pain, that is the most important thing to remember. People have different pain tolerances and pain effects people differently. Damage, however, works on everybody because everybody’s bodily systems and structures work the same way, regardless of a person’s strength or pain tolerance. Where to hit varies by the type of tool you are using, whether it is your own body or an extension to your body will determine what you should aim for. Remember from the first chapter, your brain is the Weapon, the tool in your hand or your bare hands are simply extensions of that Weapon. Put simply, with your bare hands, you should target the head, spine, and especially the eyes. With your bare hands the best way to shut down an opponent is not to kick him in the groin, despite what legend says and despite the fact that it actually does hurt most men, but again that’s pain not Damage, and pain tolerance varies by person. There are some men who can just get kicked in the groin over and over again, and does nothing to stop them when adrenaline is pumping. Groin strikes are not causing significant injury to a structure or system of the body. Most martial arts train people to kick people in the testicles, but to effectively attack the groin, what you're actually trying to do is kick somebody in the pelvis and break their pelvis and if you happen to crush their testicles in between your foot and their pelvis that's just added bonus. This is harder than the simple groin strikes most martial arts schools teach; instead of attacking the groin in an unarmed fight, which may or may not work, instead attack the eyeballs, which always causes Damage. Getting a finger in your eyeballs is every bit as painful as getting your testicles crushed. And, it also does significantly more functional Damage because it is taking a way a sensory system from the bad guy. It is also propelling the head backwards, which is giving you control of it, and thus their body (one of the last principles of W.I.D.T.H.6.). There are other targets you can attack unarmed, but few will give you the same result as putting your thumbs into somebody's eye. If you've never been jabbed in the eye with a stick or an inadvertent finger during a sparring match, I can only say it ends a fight very quickly. If you want evidence of that look at any UFC match where somebody accidentally jabs the other guy in the eye; they are instantly on their knees and they have to stop the fight for several minutes while the fighter composes himself and gets his eyes to stop watering so he can see. That is only after incidental contact with the eyeball. If you deliberately shove a digit into an eyeball, especially with your full body weight, you are going to end that fight immediately and you will have taken the Initiative away from the bad guy, even if only temporarily incapacitating him, which gives you the opportunity to deploy a Weapon, or stomp his head in and render him non-functional. With a knife, you should target the throat, as it will give you the most bang for your slice. With a handgun, you should target the high-center chest, meaning the rib cage. With a rifle, under twenty-five yards, or with a scope, also target the high-center chest. If you are armed with an iron-sighted rifle beyond twenty-five yards, you should aim for the “center of mass” of the target, basically the diaphragm muscle, as it gives you the greatest likelihood of hitting the torso, even if your marksmanship fundamentals are off. Exception is if you are in a hostage situation or certain “defense of others” situations, then you may want to take head shots with rifles, remembering your own limitations. Missing a hostage taker and hitting a hostage in the head with a rifle round is no different to the hostage than if the terrorist killed them. By the way, if you're rescuing hostages for a living, you are reading the wrong blog, but that is one of two times I would advocate for taking a headshot. The other is if the bad guy is on his back or butt, but still presenting a threat, still shooting or still trying to aim a gun, then take the headshot as the earth is your backstop. Knives: aiming for the throat for two reasons: One, it’s a softer target than the ribcage or skull, and it can do as much Damage as puncturing the ribcage or skull. The second reason is that typical carry knives are not effectively utilized on the torso. First, most legal carry knives, even if they do penetrate between ribs, are not long enough to do massive damage to internal organs like a hollow-point bullet. Further, stabbing/slashing the abdomen, while readily possible for the average carry blade, is not effective at causing the type of Damage needed to end a self-defense encounter. In other words you can stab somebody in the stomach or in the intestines many times and they're not necessarily going to be out of the fight as quickly as if you stabbed them in the Carotid artery or the jugular vein. Caveat: If you are armed with a knife and can get behind a person, or turn a person around using the next principle we will discuss (“Torque”), then you have numerous targets with a knife that the opponent cannot effectively defend against. Neck, brain-stem, spine, kidneys, back of the knee, Achilles. If you can get to somebody’s back with a knife, they are in a very, very bad situation and you have won that engagement if you have any understanding of biology, targeting and Damage. When it comes to Firearms or even knives you have to treat them just like getting into an unarmed combat fight, meaning you cannot rely on the one hit knockout. One bullet from a handgun is not going to stop a dedicated attacker trying to rape you, main you or kill you. One stab to the side of the neck is not going to immediately stop a dedicated attacker trying to rape you, main you or kill you, either. You have to keep going until they are out of the fight, that doesn't necessarily mean dead, but it means you have put them into a non-functional state, so they are no longer capable of hurting you. The best way to do that is quickly is to cause significant Damage to their sensory systems, their bodily functions or their bodily structures (bones, tendons and ligaments). Damage + Forward Movement secures the Initiative, and remember: the winner of a fight is the person who has the Initiative at the END. “It's not how hard you hit it's where you hit!” Like and Share! Soule Easy6Training.com

w.I.d.t.h.6. Chapter 2: I...

Initiative

Initiative is the easiest self-defense principle to understand and the hardest to achieve. In combat initiative is basically control. It is control of the pace of combat and the ability to impose your will upon the enemy. As law abiding citizens we never start a defensive engagement with the initiative. Therefore, we have to wrestle the initiative away from the bad guy. The winner of a fight is the person who has the initiative at the end. This is true in tank battles, in fist fights, in naval battles, and in self-defensive shootings. So, how do we get the initiative away from the bad guy as law abiding citizens? The easiest way to do it is to start moving forward towards them. In Professor Visitacion, founder of Vee Arnis Jitsu, came up with several "commandments of self-defense" one of which is this: "I can move faster forward than you can move backwards." That's the easiest way to seize the initiative. If you become the attacker, then you cease being the victim. The most aggressive person usually wins in a fight. I had a motto for my unit during the Battle of Sadr City: "Shoot first. Move forward." Now as civilians and law abiding citizens in a civilized country we cannot always be the ones to shoot first, however if we start moving forward and attacking the bad guy, then we successfully take away the initiative from them and we start driving them backwards. When they start retreating, they give up the initiative and they start losing. In a battle, the person that's moving forward, gaining ground, is winning by securing territory. The person or the army that is always retreating, giving up ground, is called the loser. People that train to shoot or fight by going backwards, are training themselves to lose. They are surrendering initiative to the bad guy. Law enforcement does this a lot. Law enforcement has a philosophy of "buying space for time" and that time gives them the chance to de-escalate, or to effect an arrest, or do other law enforcement things. This is incredibly dangerous because it is giving the initiative to the bad guy repeatedly with every step backwards. As self-defenders we are not required to do that. As self-defenders, if somebody attacks us and they intend to do us grave bodily harm, we have the right to defend ourselves effectively, and the quickest way we do that is to take the initiative away from them by moving forward... ....and causing Damage, wich I will cover in the next chapter in detail. Basically, Damage has to do with with accuracy and targeting and being efficient and effective in what you do while moving forward, but the most important thing is to become the most aggressive. Simply put, causing damage is more than just running at him swinging your arms like a windmill ineffectively, or spraying bullets inaccurately, so some training on targeting is necessary to effectively secure the initiative. How we target to cause Damage varies by weapon system and we'll get into that in the next chapter. The important thing is to attack and do so effectively, and that secures the Initiative. Defense doesn't win fights. Ending with the initiative wins fights, battles, wars and self-defense situations. Like and Share! Soule www.Easy6Training.com

W.i.d.t.h.6. Chapter 1: W...

Weapons. In his book Clear and Present Danger Tom Clancy once wrote that the first rule of unarmed combat was "don't get into it." This fascinated me because at that point I was about 3 years into studying martial arts and it was the central focus of my life. I was especially fascinated with the philosopies of martial arts such as Bushido and the animism associated with the various Shaolin animal styles of Kung Fu. Clancy's quote got me thinking that maybe kickboxing, of whatever style, was not the be all and end all of being a warrior. So, I started to focus more on weapons training in the martial arts. As a teenager that mainly meant ancient weapons like the bo staff and swords rather than firearms, but unlike many martial artists I did not see a moral distinction between guns and knives. Many martial artists are, bizzarely to me, vehemently opposed to firearms, believing them some sort of disgrace to their "Ancient Chinese Secrets" or something. Introducing weapons to training begs the question, though, when using them would be justifiable? I studied ten different martial arts over twenty years as I moved around the country and the world, and they all called themselves "self-defense systems." Only one of them was actually an unarmed combat system that taught useful self-defense principles, the rest were crap. Even the good one didn't fully understand what self-defense is. In his book When Violence is the Answer, Tim Larkin defines self-defense as a legal determination made by a criminal justice authority after the fact that what a person did was justifiable violence. It is not a set of skills or a system of martial arts. To meet that standard several things have to be true in a situation. One, you have to be in imminent danger of being maimed, raped or killed. Two, you have to be without other options, such as escape or utilizing social skills to de-escalate the situation. In other words, bar fights are not self-defense, but every martial art I studied was teaching me how to win bar fights, and calling that "self-defense training." It wasn't. But that brings us to the good news about Weapons. In an actual self-defense situation, where those standards are met, as opposed to a bar fight, you are perfectly justified in using whatever weapon you can get your hands on. If somebody is actually trying to maim you, rape you or kill you, there are no limits to the tools you can use to defend yourself unless you live in a criminal-loving jurisdiction run by lunatics like New York or Chicago. If you do live in one of those places, you should move. If you live in a sane place, where you are allowed to defend yourself, and somebody is trying to maim you, rape you or kill you, it's perfectly justifiable to shoot them, stab them or even run them over with your car. Which gets me back to Tom Clancy's quote: "The first rule of unarmed combat is: Don't get into it." There's no reason to get into a fist fight with a psychopath who is trying to do you or your loved ones grievous bodily harm. Find a weapon and use it. 1) Anything can be used as a weapon with a little creativity. Look at the world around you constantly and identify potential weapons. I once watched an Arnis master beat a sixth degree black belt senseless with an empty water bottle by doing knife patterns on his face so fast that he fell down backwards, so anything can be used as a weapon. Beer bottles, chairs, soup cans, cars, knives, keys or best of all a firearm; anything can be used as a weapon, because: 2) My brain is the real weapon. My body is a decent enough tool for my brain to use for self-defense, but I can extend its lethality by putting another tool in my hand, but the real weapon is the human mind. The human mind that designs aircraft carriers and bombers and their bombs, as well as samurai swords, the longbow or a sniper rifle. The brain is your weapon. It is also your adversary's weapon, which makes it your best target. I will talk more about that when we get to the "H" chapter. Thus, in conclusion, 3) "The first rule of unarmed combat is: don't get into it!" Like and Share Soule www.easy6training.com

More on Active Shooters

I have been obsessing over videos and articles about active shooters lately. Something occurred to me today as I was watching the hundredth training video on Youtube. They are almost all titled "Surviving an Active Shooter"/"Active Killer Survival" or something similar. None of them are titled "Stopping an Active Shooter" or "Kill the Killer" or "Shoot the Sonofabitch in the Face". Why not? This highlights the problem. We're not training people to defeat evil, we are training people to "survive" evil. We are ingraining cowardice into our population. That's not going to work in the long run, folks. I have asked some of my friends who are former SWAT cops to help develop a training program to "Stop an Active Shooter." The longer you let an Active Shooter live, the more people get shot, and also the more people bleed out waiting for the EMS to get the all clear from Law Enforcement to go in and start medical treatment and evacuation. Time is the real enemy in an active shooting, not the bad guy. The bad guy is probably suicidal and has very little interest in the next day. The shooter is almost always going to die in the end, but how FAST that happens determines how much evil he can commit. Time is the enemy, therefore Running and Hiding only cause more death. Perhaps not yours, but his next victim may be one of your friends, or a family member, or a fellow parishoner, or an employee, or a student, or a patient. This is the problem with the "Survive an Active Shooter" model instead of the "Stop an Active Shooter" model. Innocent people are going to continue to get shot every ten seconds an active shooting continues until somebody stops it. The average response time to an active shooter in this country is ten minutes. That's an average, with some responses in rural areas taking up to forty-five minutes. But even in cases where the response time is under five minutes, that's still fifty people shot. On average, about half of the shot survive. But, the longer it takes to end the shooting, the longer it takes EMS to get in, so the more people die of blood loss. Please, please watch Tim Larkin's interview with Ed Monk regarding these statistics, available here: So why is "Fight" the last option in an active shooting? Entitlement. We as Americans feel that we are entitled to a life without violence, unlike the rest of the world. We "should" not have to worry about our personal protection. We "should" be safe in our schools. We "should" be safe in our hospitals and churches and offices, et cetera. Maybe we should, but we're not. We're only as safe in those places as we make ourselves. An active shooting is a form of combat, and the same principles that work for a tank battle or a mugging also work in an active shooting. But you have to first commit to Fight first, Run if you are physicall unable to fight and Hide only as a temporary means to launch a counter-ambush. Fight is not the last option, because TIME IS THE REAL ENEMY. Your friends, family, coworkers are going to continue to get shot until somebody FIGHTS. So, how do we fight? 1. With a WEAPON. The first rule of unarmed combat is: DON'T GET INTO IT! Carry. As much as you can. If your church doesn't allow you to carry, you need to find another church, because they are suicidal and will get your family killed. If you work in a place that doesn't allow firearms, get another Weapon. Mace. Bear spray. Wasp spray. A knife. A fire extinguisher. A letter opener. Here's the second component to Weapons: if you see yourself as the Weapon, than anything can become an extention of your body and your brain to make you a more lethal Weapon. 2. By taking the INITIATIVE away from the attacker. Setting up a counter-ambush does this. So does HURTING the attacker. This is easier with a stand-off Weapon, but it's possible with just your body weight also. Hurting does not mean causing pain... 3. ....It means causing DAMAGE. If you have a firearm, you don't aim it for his little toe, you aim for his chest to inflict massive trauma to the bad guy's body. One causes pain, the other causes Damage. This is true with edged weapons and improvised blunt-force weapons also. Hitting a guy in the shoulder with a fire extinguisher might hurt, but hitting him in the Head will cause Damage. Basically this means aiming. It's not how hard you hit, it's where you hit that matters. If you have to use your bare hands, go for the eyes and the throat. 4. Or if you're a grappler, use TORQUE, also called circular motion, to cause that Damage. Torque is using all of your body weight in a circular motion to defeat a single muscle in his body. Judo and jujitsu are based on this principle of circular motion. You can use it to disarm a shooter with a rifle if you can get out of the line of the barrel, grab it and apply Torque and body weight to take him to the ground by swinging the gun away from you and pushing it in a circle to the ground. Torque is especially effective... 5. ....attacking the HEAD/NECK. Eliminating a person's capacity to think eliminates their ability to do harm. Especially with blunt-force Weapons, attacking the Head/neck is the fastest way to incapacitate somebody. With edged weapons, attack the softer spots like the eyes or the throat or the brainstem. Attacking the Head/neck using Torque can quickly cause Damage and gain Initiative away from an attacker, follow up with body weight stomps to the Head/neck also to render an attacker non-functional. 6. Most importantly, be SIXuationally Aware! Check your SIX. Listen to your SIXTH sense when something or somebody does not feel right. Trust your SIXTH sense when you see a guy with a duffel bag or a heavy trench coat in the summer. Don't be embarrassed by telling a cop or another authority figure. Don't blind your other five senses staring into a phone with earbuds in while drinking or getting high in unfamiliar or dangerous places. Be SIXuationally Aware of your surroundings, especially escape routes AND potential improvised Weapons. W.I.D.T.H.6. You have to fight back when evil shows up at your door. Running and hiding from it never works! Just ask the French:) Be armed. Be Brave. Be Trained. Be FAR MORE Dangerous than the scumbags! Soule Easy 6 www.easy6training.com

Cowards and Psychopaths

People willing to commit mass murder are not going to be deterred by more laws. They are willing to murder dozens, if not hundreds, of people. This is the most heinous crime our system of justice has, yet they are perfectly willing to slaughter human beings for racial, religious, sexual or political bigotry. What law is New York going to pass that could possibly scare suicidal terrorists hell-bent on mass destruction? Don’t rack your brain, there isn’t one. People who are willing to commit mass murder will not be deterred by a misdemeanor weapons charge. They are evil criminals, they don’t care about laws; that’s the definition of evil criminals. You cannot legislate your way out of a confrontation with evil men. These aren’t people who run red lights, or go ten over the speed limit. Laws will not deter them. Murder is already illegal. In fact, it’s the oldest crime in the world, yet people still commit it. More laws aren’t going to stop that. You know what stops a murderer? A better defender. Ask any battered spouse with a restraining order that some piece of garbage walks right through on the attack; paper doesn’t beat rock. It certainly doesn’t beat bullets. To beat a rock, you need a bigger rock. Meaning, you have to be more dangerous and more capable at violence than the criminal predator. The laws they want to pass actually make society more dangerous. They want to write a piece of paper that bans good people from having rocks at all, and so only the bad guys have them. The bad guys don’t care at all about another law on another piece of paper, and they aren’t giving up their rocks. In between the previous paragraph and this one, the Uvalde, Texas shooting occurred. The terrorist shot nineteen elementary school kids. So, I’m going to stop arguing about guns. This is about a willful disbelief in evil. I don’t understand how people can not believe in evil. How else could you explain a lunatic shooting nineteen children between eight and ten years old? It’s not a matter of the mental health crisis in this country, which is obviously real, or bullies, it’s simply evil. This person was not raised with a moral compass to know that you don’t murder children. That seems like a pretty obvious and simple rule to follow. We can debate a lot about varying degrees of right and wrong, but you’re going to have a hard time finding the person who thinks murdering school children is a gray area. So, this was a broken psychopath with no remorse for innocent life. “He was bullied as a child because he had a lisp,” one report said. Well that certainly justifies murdering nineteen children ten years younger than him. Are you kidding me? He was bullied? Everybody is bullied in school at some point; you don’t get to go murder innocent children because of it! I was bullied as a kid, you know what I did with that anger? I joined the Army, got trained how to kill people with everything from a TOW missile to my bare hands to PROTECT innocent people and kill BAD PEOPLE! That’s the constructive way to use that rage and violence, to KILL TERRORISTS, not become one! There is something broken in our society that doesn’t believe in evil anymore. I’m not saying that in a religious context at all, by the way. But something has been lost in how we socialize children to be moral citizens with consciences that preclude the murder of other school children. Part of this is cowardice. We are a society of cowards. This encourages terrorists to conduct attacks. They don’t fear opposition, and they bank on their actions terrifying further the cowards unwilling to oppose them. This is not a debate about guns, it is an indictment of the cowardice now prevalent in our society. That cowardice is what allows these terrorists to succeed. Besides cowardice, the other part is the end of moral education for young Americans. We refuse as a society to parent children. To develop them into moral citizens. Parents want to be liked by their kids instead of respected by their kids. I’m not a parent, I’m sure it’s hard, but where the hell were this terrorist’s parents? Why didn’t they teach him it is evil to kill helpless children? Where did they go wrong? He shot his grandmother first before going to the school. What were they teaching him? What were they failing to teach him about right and wrong? This is the crux of our problem. We’re educating psychopathic terrorists because we aren’t socializing them to be moral citizens. This kid was like a Wild Child who raised himself in the woods with no moral foundations. Maybe we need to start charging the parents of these nutjobs with crimes? Maybe that would motivate them to instill some semblance of basic humanity into their little bundles of psychopathy. The two combined, our cowardice as a society and our immoral training of angry young men, is getting children killed. You can debate gun control forever, we have been, and I don’t give a damn what side you’re on, it doesn’t address these two problems. We are producing evil men without consciences who have no qualms about murdering scores of eight-year-olds. And the vast majority of our society is too chicken-shit to confront such evil bastards when they attack. We cannot continue as a society under these conditions. This is how societies and empires always fall, with moral decay inside to the point they are so rotten that they cannot defend themselves when the barbarians arrive at the gates. If you love your children, you better start turning this around. Raise them to be brave. Raise them to channel anger or rage towards evil. Be Galahads not Gandhis. Pacificism is the Virtue of the Victim. Courage is not hard when you accept that there are things more important than life, like the lives of eight-year-olds or thousands of innocent civilians in some building United 93 was screaming towards. Stop being cowards; be like Todd Beamer and stand up to evil when it attacks. “Let’s Roll.” Soule www.easy6training.com

Virtues

Patriotism may be the "virtue of the vicious" as Oscar Wilde said, but Pacifism is the Virtue of the Victim. There have been two and half successful instances of pacifism changing the world for the better, and only one side was being non-violent at the time. Gandhi's revolution in India was a success, but thousands upon thousands of Indians were beaten, bludgeoned and shot in the process. The Civil Rights Movement in America was largely successful due to Dr. King's stance of non-violent protest...then he was shot. The half is the Christian "revolution" that took three hundred years of being fed to lions before a Roman Emperor finally converted. I wouldn't call that one entirely successful, especially since the symbol of the revolt got crucified. I respect the morality of Jesus, Gandhi and MLK, but the vast majority of times when evil has been defeated in the world, it has come by force. In interpersonal violence, pacifism is suicide. Anti-social predators are not impressed with the morality of turning the other cheek, they simply prey upon the weak and take whatever they want. That can be your belongings, your money, your body, your limbs or your life. The only thing that stops them is more effective violence. In a world without the professionals to whom we outsource our violence, like cops and soldiers, the citizen is left to a world full of predators without a protector class. German Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, for the most part, believed God would never allow the evil that they were witnessing right in front of them (but denying) to happen to them. That is why when the State of Israel was founded--by force--that it adopted the motto "Never Again." European Jews, who founded Israel, had learned the horrible lesson of pacifism in the face of unspeakable, uncaring and methodical evil. The Israelis are not pacifists. Pound for pound, the Israeli Defense Force is the finest fighting force on Earth. Despite all of the wars and attacks on them, trying to finish what Hitler started, they fight on each day and continue to survive. Yet, they are defending a religion of peace, in the holy land, with ground sacred to three of the five major religions on Earth by killing and dying for it. They may be vicious. They are not victims. And they Never Again will be. The difference between the Israeli people and the American people is this: Israelis believe in evil. Many European Jews did not believe in evil. They denied to themselves what was going to eventually happen. And millions of them died. The survivors, who founded Israel, never again made that mistake. By contrast, when America was attacked on September 11, 2001 by unspeakable, uncaring and methodical evil, a shockingly large segment of our population denied it happened the way it did in order to continue to live in the delusion that evil is not real. Another large segment of Americans blamed America for being willing to defend Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, angering the evil lunatics who founded al Qaeda, because it's easier to blame yourself--like a rape victim--than confront the fact that there are evil people in the world. They will kill you, rape you, rape your children, burn families alive in hellfire atop crumbling skyscrapers, all because they HATE YOU, whether you did anything to them or not. I wonder if American Individualism, which I love, causes us not to be able to understand these days why people would hate us as infidels even though we had never met those people before? Or if it's something more pathological that we just cannot live outside of our illusory bubble of protection? So that when it is shattered, we retreat into a state of denial? I think that's probably more likely, but either way, it's delusional. Because there is evil in the world. There are evil men who do evil things to innocent people everyday. The average American has been protected from that evil by professionals for the last 80 years, so they don't believe it is real. But the people in our society who live in poverty, they understand violence, and are not delusional about it. The inner cities of this country are failed states, where armed militias control the streets instead of the governments. They aren't pacifists. It's rich and middle class white folks in this country who are utterly brainwashed into believing that violence can never find them or hurt them, and that evil doesn't exist. They are the pacifists. And therefore, they are the victims of their own virtue. There are hyenas in the world. Be the lion. It takes a lot of hyenas to take down a lion. In other words: Be Armed. Be Ready. Be More Dangerous than Predators! Like and Share! Brian Soule Easy6Training.com