When to hope … and when to abandon hope
Hope is a beautiful thing. It can keep you alive when nothing else can. Hope has kept shipwrecked sailors alive. It helped prisoners survive the […]
Home Defense
Paintball guns don’t count
You want to know what makes me angry? Walking around a sports shop, full of knives and air rifles and paintball guns and other toys, […]
How to NOT get arrested – the strength of weakness
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but… Being the Good GuyTM is not enough. Being in the right is not enough. You can still […]
Sit down and give this a good long think
“Long periods of peace and quiet favor certain optical illusions. Among them is the assumption that the invulnerability of the home is founded upon the […]
Mental attitude changes everything
Rule of thumb – predators aren’t used to being attacked. Or should that be a “rule of life”?
Gee I bet he wished he had a knife
Guy is sleeping at home. His daughter’s screaming wakes him up. Rushes through to her bedroom and sees she’s being strangled by a home invader.
Why do we carry weapons?
A lot of people carry weapons during their daily lives. And a whole bunch of them take them off and pack them away as soon […]
Mental slap in the face – Everyone thinks they’ll be killed last
Time for some harsh truth. You either haven’t thought of this. Or you don’t want to think of this. Ergo, we must think it through […]
Zombie apocalypse – food for thought
Want to know what a zombie apocalypse would be like? Well, we can examine certain places at certain points in history to get an idea. […]
Do not be prey
There is a grim word for an incompetent man, out there in the billowing shadows. It is “prey”. Do not be prey. You will not […]