Zombies aren’t real. I
say again, and I know this hurts some of you to hear, but it’s true: zombies
aren’t real. Why in the heck do you have
an AK in your truck? Let’s just assume
for a moment you ever actually used that “sporting rifle” behind the seat of
your Tacoma; what exactly are you going to tell the cops when they show up?
Look, if you are a SWAT or Military-trained sniper and you
have the skill set to end a mass shooter from five hundred yards away with a “sporting
rifle,” then by all means carry a truck gun.
If you aren’t that guy, when the cops show, what do you tell them? “Well…I got out of the bank robbery, so I
grabbed my AR and went back inside to put every bystander there in massive
mortal damage, officer. I thought my
considerable skills honed through dozens of hours on a fifty yard range with my
Bushmaster made me the perfect guy to go start rescuing hostages. It’s a shame a dozen bystanders got killed in
my firefight with the robbers. But, it’s
like the SEALs always say, `Sucks to be a hostage.’”
“Oh, were you a SEAL?”
“Um…well, not exactly, I mean, I graduated Air Force Basic
and shot an M16 two whole days, so, yeah, I’m basically a SEAL.”
And, I’d be THRILLED if every idiot rolling around with an AK
or AR in their truck was in fact a graduate of Air Force Basic, or a Police
Academy, or even some tactical rifle course put on by veterans. BUT, most of the people rolling around with
them don’t have ANY tactical training, much less the precision skills necessary
to successfully go BACK into a situation like the one described above or the
ability to take out the Las Vegas Shooter from their truck beds. I am a combat veteran of a combat Military
Occupational Specialty with about a dozen firefights under my belt, and I don’t
rescue hostages. Bubba and Billy-Bob, with
the AR’s in their Ford Redneck Rescue Raptor, go off guns-a-blazing in some
sort of North Hollywood Shootout scenario, trying to “take out” badguys, will
get innocent people killed. And even if
they miraculously DON’T get innocent people killed, is that REALLY self-defense?
Or, have they become vigilantes who make
situations infinitely worse?
This is my problem with blurring the lines of what
self-defense really is. The NRA does
it. The shooting industry wants to sell
you guns, so they do it, as do all of the weapons accessory companies. The Tacticool Instructors do it. But then when somebody shoots a guy
trespassing in his field at six hundred yards away, and then claims he was “in
imminent danger and fear for his life,” the prosecutors sometimes disagree with that industry definition of "self-defense."
Self-Defense is not a set of skills. It is not a set of shooting skills. It is not a set of fighting skills. It is not a set of tactics for “clearing”
houses or “securing” fixed positions or anything else. Self-Defense is a LEGAL DETERMINATION—after an
incident occurs—that the actions taken were justified in the eyes of the law. Cops make that determination, prosecutors make
the determination, judges make the determination, and—worst case scenario—sometimes
juries make the determination that the actions a person took were justified
self-defense. When you start looking
like a vigilante, it becomes exceedingly difficult to argue that the actions
were in self-defense. Willingly putting
yourself BACK into a dangerous situation that you have already escaped from,
isn’t self-defense. Now, it may be “defense
of others,” and there may be good reasons for such actions (going in to get
your spouse out for example), but it’s not self-defense.
Don’t be George Zimmerman.
If you are one of the people who thinks George Zimmerman was an innocent
victim, stop reading my blog. George
Zimmerman was a lunatic living out some Batman fantasy; he stalked and killed a
kid for no other reason than he didn’t like his fashion choice. Vigilantism is NOT self-defense. Running back into a dangerous situation with
a rifle can appear to be vigilantism if you don’t have a good reason (like a
loved-one inside, or a tactical skill set capable of being effective inside).
Lastly, when the SWAT team does show up, I don’t want to be
holding a rifle. They have their own snipers. Those snipers may not know who the good guys
are and who the bad guys are. Don’t get
shot because you were trying to do something you thought was good, just because
the cops can’t tell which side you’re on.
In conclusion, we have enough people who hate the gun-owning
public without shooting ourselves in the feet looking like the caricatures that
the liberals paint of the NRA. All the
5.11 gear, the fishing vests, the operator hats and rail accessories attached
to your AR or AK are not helping the cause of getting everybody in America
comfortable, confident and CARRYING a gun with them at all time. What it’s doing is making people think we’re
nutty George Zimmerman types out looking to play Batman. Other than combat and Zombies, I cannot
imagine a scenario in which I would need a rifle with a thirty-round magazine
in my truck for anything that would be construed—AFTER THE INCIDENT—as justifiable
self-defense in modern American daily life. Now, I
will caveat this by saying, yes, after a natural disaster, or during an
on-going terrorist attack, or massive civil unrest, a sport rifle may well be desirable. After Hurricane Katrina, when
civil order disintegrated and a state of anarchy took hold of New Orleans for a
brief time, I absolutely would want a rifle.
During the Paris Terrorist Attacks, which were geographically spread
throughout the city and carried-out by chickenshit half-men armed with AK-47s, I would absolutely want a rifle
to protect my home and family. But, I
believe the right answer in those situations is to secure your home and your
loved ones, with an arsenal, at home.
Then, if you need to retreat to a safer place, that is when you get
fully equipped and Move Out with the truck gun.
But, that scenario is A LOT closer to a combat zone than it is to a
self-protection situation that you would have to justify before a judge as
reasonable “self-defense.” Don't make your defense any harder in a criminal proceeding by how you're equipped. Zombies ain't real, folks!
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Soule
www.Easy6training.com
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