I was not expecting to stumble across an Atlantic video-profile on John Correia and Active Self Protection:
“If you can’t be safe, be dangerous.”
I was not expecting to stumble across an Atlantic video-profile on John Correia and Active Self Protection:
“If you can’t be safe, be dangerous.”
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Here’s another thought.
This guy says, in describing his motivations, “I’m a patriot.” He says he wants to help people.
But if you’re really a patriot, and if you really care about helping people, why do you spend so much time and focus trying to control a thing that might happen on a timescale of a few seconds?
Why not spend your time and focus on asking why you need to control a thing that might happen on a timescale of a few seconds? Why not spend your time and focus asking why such a thing would happen at all?
Why not think about the days, weeks, months, or years? If you control what happens in the years, do you not also control what happens in the seconds?
What if you control the decades?
Or centuries?
If you master rugged individualist quick-draw gun tactics and practice rugged individualist hypervigilance, maybe you survive a few seconds.
If you establish a militarized law enforcement, maybe you don’t need the rugged individualist hypervigilance.
If you cultivate a police force, maybe you don’t need the militarized law enforcement.
If you elect a sheriff, maybe you don’t need the police force.
If you admit citizens under the Naturalization Act of 1790, maybe you don’t need the sheriff.
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This guy says, ‘I don’t want my house to burn down’. He a gets a ten dollar kitchen fire extinguisher. My question is, why doesn’t he want a fire department of trained professionals watching to stop fires in the whole city?
It’s not either/or. The endless war against entropy must be fought at all scales of time and space. From your T-cells dismantling viruses and designing antibodies, to your pistol putting bullets in the other guy before he can put bullets into you, to national defense against ICBMs.
Between the end of the Indian Wars and the mass importation of diversity, how long were Americans really able to chill out and relax? Fifty years? People in far-upstate New York feared home-invasion robberies in 1866 according to the book Farmer Boy.
When seconds count, the fire truck is minutes away.