Written by Wild Bill on The Prepper Journal.
While we all are to be able to never “re going to have to” represent the decision to use deadly coerce to defend ourselves and our loved ones, it happens daily somewhere and with an opposition party in the USA that inflames and counsels violence, hate and criminality in the place of concluded debate and an open subconsciou, felons may not always be that person kicking in your front door.
From road rage escalating to signal burning to devastation of public and private property to the assault on its own history, the flash points can be anywhere and increase is sometimes hopeless to control.
The Christian approach of “turning the other cheek” can often result in that one getting strike as well or worse.
” How Did This Start ?”
Always the first issue, how did this start, how did it escalate so quickly, how did it come to this? This is also the map of the trail that is going to play out in your life going forward. Like the 5 steps of sorrow each must be examined under a microscope and defined ad nauseum before moving on to the next step.
The temptation to find self shame in your wars is likely to be real , no matter what endless keyboard soldiers and armchair quarterbacks claim. Every soldier and every police officer goes through the same process, or lies about it.
And this is your most dangerous time, as you try and process what happened those tasked with determining what happened will not give you the time to process your activities. Recollections go stale and get convoluted by era and length from any case. And every text spoken in that first hour will haunt you forever, determined the way planned had mentioned and map out where occasions will go from there. This is your most vulnerable period.
” MAKE IT STOP !”
When someone intensifies a confrontation to the level of using deadly force every one who has faced this, including professionals like police officers and soldiers, has the same gut reaction- NOT to shoot to kill, but to shoot to make it stop. That they may be one and the same is situational. This is why your first reaction is to keep pulling the provoke until it doesn’t depart “bang” anymore, why doubts in armed discords with police are often shot multiple times. It isn’t some manly stuff, it is preservation of self and loved ones. It is subjugating the threat.
I for one condemn the mind-numbing desensitization of this on the media, from the aged westerns of the affix WWII period to the movies to TV news who refuse to show the reality.( Thank goodness Sam Peckinpah ultimately indicated up .)
If you take nothing from this article other than to build your first explanation as to what happened” I shot to make it stop !” as opposed to” I filmed to kill” then I will have afforded some appraise.
Remember, the Police Want to Go Home that Night too
To quote Hans Gruber from the first Die Hard Movie” Relax, police intervention was inevitable ….” And it will be in your bag should you be involved in any self-defense utilizing firearms.
Understand that they are responding to an” active crap-shooter situation” and are clueless as to who shot who or why when they arrive BUT will be participating, with gunfire, anyone they ascertain with a firearm, so, if security threats has been neutralized by you, make sure to holster or putting in place your weapon before they kick down your doorway and keep your hands in clear perception. And react from cover and then follow their involves. They will arrest you and manacle you and take your artillery. So would you if “youre in” their persona. They miss the situation entirely defused, the same” make it stop” mindset.
Do not, under any circumstances transfer the artillery you used to anyone else , not a relied family member , no one. It is now a crucial piece of prove in your defense and you do not miss it convoluted by others fingerprints, etc.
Lawyer Up
No matter how apologized , no matter how many evidences, get professional committee immediately. Look into Texas Law Shield or USCCA now, before you need it. There are others, these are the two I have utilized, and still do. KNOW what they do and do not provide.
Know also that it merely takes one attorney looking to make a name for him or her self and further a political career to make a vindicated hitting in ego protection into a jumping off detail for their advantage, at your expenditure. And don’t lose site of the fact that offenders have lineages and they can hire advocates very and they have a complicit media ever willing to give them public singer.
Now is NOT the time to tell your side of occurrences other than to territory you two are assaulted and you demand your lawyer.
The ten( 10) circumstances NOT to do are 😛 TAGEND
Call 911 in a Panic Leave the vistum Mobilize or tamper with evidence Have your handgun in your hand Make a statement issued police without your lawyer Fall for the” good policeman/ bad policeman” routine Try your client on the spot with them Lecture them on” your rights” Fail be dealt with as either” sir or man” Be astonished if you are treated as a criminal
In a society so over-burdened with rules by so many governing authorities you can be assured you have broken at least on statute, if not various, in your accomplishment of ego justification. For illustration most metropolitans make it a crime to accomplish a weapon within their restraints , no matter the reason. The roll could be long. Even if the city doesn’t have that constitution, the county may, or you may be withing a restricted length to local schools, authority facility, and on and on.
Consider simply territory” My gun is laying over there, and that is the gun that I used to shoot my attacker in soul protection because I horror for “peoples lives”. I do not want to say anything else until I have had time to talk to my attorney. I want to cooperate with the investigation fully, but I’m very upset right now and I need to talk to my attorney first. I hope you understand .”
Believe me, if you can say the above in a clear assured spokesperson you are better than 90% of you fellow citizens who will be traumatized by the situation. Taking a life is a required villainy sometimes, but it is never easy, and you will never be the same.
Better to be judged by 12 than carried by six, you will be judged. Try and not be your harshest critic and seeking professional counseling is not a sign of weakness.
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