Mindfulness for Safety-sake
a crude/brief PSA
08-14-23: just putting together a little PSA for women... for the most part, woman are smaller and weaker than men (on average), i'm a pretty capable guy (but only 5'8 light-med. build), and have met plenty of ladies that would probably kick my ass in a real fight, so i'm generalizing here, but percentages/ratios suggest that i'm not overly generalizing... i'll try to put together something a bit more comprehensive, but here are a couple of very good starting points to get you in this 'women's safety' education mind-set... and although i point you to these decent resources, i'll also loudly preach that knowledge/education is nice, but learning/practicing martial-arts or self-defense, or carrying defensive weapons that you know how to use might be just as important...
This first set of resources is geared toward identifying dangerous men (or, many people who are predators), in hopes to prevent women from falling for the wrong kind of guy... i have to read it again, finish the interview, and maybe read some of the author's books if i can get them on the cheap, the guy leading the interview (Jason) has great insight into the topic of deviant personalities, his series called 'political ponerology' was well done:
This second set of resources touches on identifying threatening people, dangerous places, identifying vulnerabilities, and teaches you some first-hand tips that women who were victimized did to survive, and escaped with their life... warning, some of the stories will rock your world, and torque your perception of how nasty some deviant-predators really are, Gavin deBecker has dedicated his life to keeping other people safe, he has daughters of his own that he obviously cares for:
SO, this post is just a crude PSA for women in particular, but for anyone to help improve your situational awareness, you shouldn't expect a snake under every rock, or a murderer around every corner, but sometimes you need to keep your warning-antenna up (some places require that), and just because you never ran into a predator that didn't try to victimize you doesn't mean that they aren't out there, and that someday you won't run into one of them.
Folks who get weirded-out by good-guys who carry guns are mis-interpriting reality, they would be the folks running away from threats while i draw my firearm to try to mitigate deadly threats... no one wants to have to use a firearm in self defense, but reality is that firearms are also one of history’s biggest life-savers that were ever invented, they have saved uncountable lives, sometimes they end a life to save another one, or to save many more lives... if you've read a decent amount of my posts you will know that i'm a personal-protection safety-conscious type of person (sheep-dog), i'm hard-wired for protection services (EP), but only did that for a short while, and mostly when i was in the Army (which was mostly physical security), sometimes even guarding the base's stupid dump, grrrr... So, with that said, i hope you take the Public Service Announcement for what it's worth, don't miss the baby in the bath-water... the folks who created the resources above have a great deal of experience and wisdom to share... God bless. -- ct
08-22-23: there aren't very many people that actually want to shoot, or kill anyone... but there is a reason why you keep pulling the trigger until the attacker drops or flees... you keep pulling the trigger until the threat is mitigated... there is also a reason why communist douche-bags keep fvcking crying about so called 'high-cap magazines', they are the same folk that want law-abiding citizens disarmed... complete sh1t-heads like the communist and retarded little fella from NY, J. Nadler, those anti-American socialists/communists/marxxists want animalistic criminals and psychopaths to rule the streets and keep citizens terrified, the sooner that happens the more they can justify a police-state/communism, and try to completely disarm Americans...
... the police chief says that the officer did the right thing, i think she should have emptied her magazine as quickly as possible, or kept shooting until the animal dropped, or backed-off... just glad she only got struck by the animal, and his hammer, four times... if it were me, he would have had about ten rounds in him, i think she should have shot him a few more times early on... and for the anti-firearm communist douche-bags, ten-rounds is not sufficient for self-defense, many of these animals pack together like a zombie-cult/wild-dogs, and you sh1t-heads know that--don't you... ten rounds might only be enough to stop one attacker, but you don't know how many attackers you might have to face...
... the video is tough to watch, especially hearing her (the police officer) screaming: https://www.foxnews.com/us/cop-critically-wounded-hammer-wielding-animal-with-30-priors-who-should-n... -- ct
I wish I would of read this before going downtown today. The snakes aren’t even under every rock, they’re out in the open now, and in nearly every church building too. Lord have mercy, please.