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Aneirin -> RE: Why I Carry A Gun (12/28/2008 7:47:21 AM)
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In Britain as you may be aware, we do not have the right to carry guns, and very few are even licensed to have them, such is our level of disarmament, but that does not mean one cannot defend themselves. If confronted with someone toting a gun, though this is extremely rare, you just do what they say, and perhaps they will go away, let them maintain their control and that way they will feel in control and less likely to press that trigger. It is interesting that when people pull triggers it is often that is the last thing they actually want to do, they do it because they have focused so much attention into the fact they have a gun, and it is an automatic response when things move out of their view of the control they think they have by holding the thing. They pull triggers because they are scared.
Even knives, those that think they have control by pointing a little four inch piece of pointy steel, they focus all their self into the pointy object, forgetting about the rest of their body, (and how vunerable it it is ). Often it is a knife wielder forgets that most people's legs are longer and more powerful than anyone's arm, sharp steel tipped or not. For me this was made very clear when some little teenage 'herbert' tried to make me hand over cash one night on the way to the local estate shops, his mum's kitchen knife out in front of him as though he was a sabre tooth tiger. Before I could even think of his age or the pathetic little blade he held, he got a boot full bore straight into the V between his legs, he went down like a sack of shit, the focus of his strength, a totally useless object. For that, the little herbert lost his mum's kitchen knife and crawled home or wherever he went trying to exticate his balls from his throat.
But we aren't allowed to carry knives in the UK, though I do understand many do carry them for 'protection' against knife wielders, knives being a common problem with the younger people, some of whom fear the law not and think nothing of using knives against others. So what can we do to protect ourselves in an ever increasing lawless society in some areas ? The police are largely useless, they either being unavailable due to manning levels or just plain scared themselves, so as to just not be around. That is very common, and I have experienced it, an incident, and the police turned up the next day, by which time the damage is done.
I used to believe in law and order, the role of the police and the judiciary system, the civility of people, but a few experiences have changed that, I now know, when shit hits the fan, you are largely on your own, and on your own you have to deal with the situation. Thankfully nothing has happened since I have wised up, but I carry chains as part of my daily attire, though they are in reality key and wallet chains I made, they are a little bit longer, heavier and better made than the average key chain, bronze byzantium chain mail, patinated with ammonia for decoration. At one time, these chains served a dual purpose, one of those purposes being, at least something to equal the odds if confronted again, even if to an assailant they serve as knowledge that this won't be an easy hijack, I was armed and prepared to fight back. How effective the chains are, I have no idea, but I am depending on the knowledge most robbers do what they do because they believe they can by virtue of them being armed and the victim not, equal the odds, most would think otherwise of their actions.
But now I don't think of my chains as weapons, or even potential weapons, for I have learned how to live without running the possibility of being threatened, I am just wise to where it is not wise to go when it is not wise to do so, why invite trouble, when it can so easily be avoided, and this does not mean one lives a shadow of a life by limiting oneself, just be wise.
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