Posted on 07/28/2015 4:18:29 PM PDT by Kartographer
There are few things to understand if you are forced to kill someone or in if someone is trying to kill you.
Most of the people are unaware of them but it is important to understand them.
As I said many times before, most people simply did not face real violence before. I mean killing or fighting for life. That’s good because we live in society where those things are not needed.
On the other side, from the point of survival if you did not went through serious violence before you lack that experience, you do not really know what to expect when SHTF So…
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Prepper’s PING!!
Just wow.
I always like to think should the scenario arise I would kill without compunction. And in certain circumstances I surely would.
When SHTF, I hope I can function in the myriad dangerous situations that will present them selves.
I hope.
Or else you are dead....
Interesting, I was just thinking last night that one thing about the future is we have all been safe in our American cocoon for a long long time, so many of us will have a hard time if there comes a time we are each responsible literally for our own life.
Second posts over on survivalist boards. Dude knows his stuff.
Imho, no one can know how they will respond until it actually happens.
Selco
Don’t forget:
“Officer, I was in fear of my life. I’d like to speak to my attorney now.”
bkmk
I took a survival course a long time ago when I was young, and I remember my DI spent a lot of time on the mental aspects of survival which I thought was a waste of time. As I got older and a little wiser, I came to realize what he was talking about. In the course we talked a lot about stress, and handling death. If the SHTF, my dad will die because he is a diabetic, and yes I probably could make insulin in a lab if I had to but where would I get the necessary ingredients if the SHTF? I know that I can survive, but my wife is addicted to coffee and cigarettes and an easy life. She will be hell to live with when the SHTF. I gladly ate an uncooked rat during my survival class, can you eat your pet because you probability will have to eat a lot worst things? Even a simple ear infection can kill, we will have to bury a lot of children. I grew up on a farm, and I can hunt and fish. I have lived without air conditioning, and I know how to make do without tp. If the SHTF, in three days all most everybody will be out of food. My daughter thinks we will all come together and help each other out. She is so foolish, she will be dead in no time. She dose not have a clue, and she is likely to get her family killed also. The SHTF will be hell on earth.
People who choose to manage their own safety to the maximum need to become proficient with their chosen self-defense weaponry. And, they need to seriously consider the lengths to which they are willing to go to protect themselves, their loved ones, and their property.
I highly recommend the book “On Killing” by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. It’s a good starting point in the process.
Combat situations can not be prepared for. To paraphrase Saving Private Ryan, “You do the thing you’re scared of then find the courage after.”
Dave Grossman’s works are also worthwhile on this.
My father was a WWII vet European theatre and said : I wish no one harm but it would have been good if the US experienced the war firsthand.
I had trouble killing a snake by our back door last week. I really wanted my husband to be home so he could do it for me. Not my lucky day. I managed to kill it but I’m afraid it was a ridiculous scene full of turmoil. For a snake. I can’t even imagine how I’d react if I had to kill another human being. God willing, I’ll never have to find out.
Be careful, you may start enjoying it..
The dangerous situations are easy. The non-dangerous ones are difficult, like taking/not taking in suffering arrivals, when you know stocks will be burdened, space limited, etc.
I turn away from that scene each time, furious about what occurred due to cowardice. But I also understand, being a veteran, that each reacts differently under stress. You must know your people to operate effectively.
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