Category Archives: Preparedness

Playing out in real time

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The government of Ukraine has finally understood something clearly at last. Our founders clearly saw this, those who drafted whatever document that Ukraine operates under should have seen and understood as well.

A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The government is offering to give arms to every citizen who wants one, ID is required. They will be giving citizens “military grade weapons” aka “weapons of war”. Even giving training, as time permits. in weapons use, handling (safety) and tactics. Firearms restrictions are being loosened for private purchase. This may prove to be too little too late. The wolf, or in this case the bear, is not just at the door he is coming through the door.

One question being asked is this. Would Russia have invaded if they would be facing a military and a well-armed civilian population aka Militia? We will never know.

The arming of the civilian population has been covered by the MSM here in America. Even those with an anti-gun agenda. Strangely enough the anti-gun organizations, aka gun control cult, have been strangely silent on civilians having military grade weapons, aka weapons of war. Not just having them but being given to them by the government.

Now I have a question or two. If Ukraine is successful in stopping the Russians and driving them out with the aid of an armed population, will they then seek to disarm their population? Will the Ukrainian government once again put in place gun control measures?

One more question. Will the Ukrainian population who just fought for and defended their country from foreign aggression allow their own government to disarm them?

You can bet your bottom dollar that if the Russians are successful, one of the first things to happen will be a complete and total disarming of the population.

Many in America like to use the phrase “right side of history”. Allow me to use your phrase. The unfolding events in Ukraine prove the Founders correct. They were on the right side of History. Past, Present and yes even Future. This is true no matter the outcome in Ukraine.

Does the deafening silence from the cult of gun control indicate that they may have come to their senses and realized that they have been wrong? Hardly. They are at this moment plotting their next gun rights attack. Even though they are wrong and know it they are too far down this path to say so.

I would tell them to go to Ukraine and witness firsthand the absolute necessity of an armed civilian population, armed with the weapons of war because they at this moment are at war. They are not in a pillow fight. They need and deserve weapons equal to those of the aggressor, I would argue they need and deserve weapons superior to the aggressor. But if they went, they would do their best to tell the Ukrainians they are wrong and do not need weapons of war. They would say that weapons of war do not belong on the streets of Ukraine. Even though the streets of the cities may well become a battle ground. They would say that only the military needs weapons of war, while it is an armed hostile foreign military they are facing. These Ukrainians are in a fight for their very lives.

The way I see the gun control cult is this. You are like the person who feeds the crocodile, you only feed it in hopes it will eat you last. You are willing to surrender but not willing to fight. If surrendering is your thing, fine go ahead. You have a right to surrender, you do not have a right to take me along.

The correct response to the crocodile was to engage and come away with a nice belt, wallet and even a pair of boots.

And this is for the cult of gun control. The difference between you and me and those like me is this. I will defend myself, I will defend my family, I will defend my home, I will defend my State, and I will defend my country should the need arise, I will do all of that and if necessary, I will even defend you. You on the other hand will ask or beg (depending on the circumstance) others to do for you what you are unwilling to do for yourself.

To the people of Ukraine, I wish you all the best.

Preparedness and Survival

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The recent events on the Highways and Byways in Virginia should be a wakeup call for many. Unfortunately, most will ignore the warnings. Those that heed the warnings will soon develop a case of amnesia.

Many people suddenly found themselves in a survival situation and most were woefully unprepared, some were underprepared. But then again who would have expected to end up in a survival situation while going about doing what one does every day?

I don’t know for sure, but I would guess if you asked some of the people why they weren’t prepared you would get an answer along these lines. If I had known this was going to happen, I would have been prepared or better prepared. Even if being prepared meant not being caught up in it in the first place.

In case you have not ” got it ” by this point in your life, emergencies, disasters, and survival situations are not going to be considerate enough to tell you when they will come so you can be prepared for them. It is best to be prepared for them when they occur, or at least be as prepared as possible.

One question I am asked is, what do you prepare for? The advice offered is complicated, yet simple if one will only think it through. You cannot prepare for every possibility. You can, however, prepare for the likely.

To me at least Preparedness and Survival go hand in hand.

The three basics of Survival are Food (including water), Clothing (adequate for the environment you are currently in as well as the environment you are going to and in between), and Shelter (adequate for the environment). If you have these three survival items covered, you are well on the way towards preparedness.

Food, Clothing and Shelter sounds simple. And it is at least until you start to consider importance. When caught in a torrential downpour shelter suddenly becomes the most important. You get the picture.

I don’t want to beat up on the Virginians too badly but there are some important lessons to be learned. If you happen to be in Virginia or were caught up in the traffic stoppage don’t get offended (if you do all I can say is get over, it) as I will soon beat up on my fellow Floridians. And if my fellow Floridians get offended well, they can just get over that too.

As stated above the people caught up in this traffic stoppage were going about their daily activities. Doing things, they had done numerous times before giving no thought to the possibility of adverse events. Some had been stuck in traffic before because of an accident. But this time it would be different, more different than they had even envisioned. Stuck in traffic for fifteen hours, snowing and cold.

Since they suddenly and unexpectedly found themselves in a survival situation let us now examine the three basics of survival. I believe the order of importance in this situation would be Clothing, Food and Shelter

Clothing. It is possible that many of those were commuters. They were either on the way home from work or on the way to work. That was the way they were dressed. Those who work in offices wore adequate clothing for the environment they left and were going to. Their clothing was woefully inadequate for the environment they found themselves in. Those that work outdoors were better dressed, better but still likely inadequate for an extended period.

Food. From what has been reported food was a real issue. Some that had food shared with those who had none.

Shelter. Since there were no reports of anyone being on a motorcycle everybody had shelter. Was it adequate? No, motor vehicles are not well insulated but if they had gas, they had heat. In this case inadequate shelter was better than no shelter at all. I find it odd that there was no mention of the electric vehicles and how they held up for those fifteen hours.

Will it be a case of lessons learned or lessons ignored? Two types of people will emerge from all of this.

There will be some who learned a valuable life lesson. They will keep food, including water, in their vehicle. They will put a blanket or sleeping bag or both in their vehicle. They will put winter clothing including footwear in their vehicle. They will keep their gas tank full. The next time they are prepared and instead of being suddenly thrown into a survival situation they will find themselves inconvenienced.

Then there will be others that will ignore these lessons. The next time this or something like this happens they will be just as unprepared.

I wonder if any of the folks will watch Gilligan’s Island with a different point of view. It started as a Three-Hour cruise.

Their journey started as a short hour or so drive.

This is just part one, with more to come.