This will be long. Thank you if you make it to the end.
I have been training with guns, just a fun thing to do. I have no desire to conceal carry (CC), or have a shootout with a bad guy in the mall, or join a street riot. I just like the shooting (at a range at paper targets). It is winter here and the range is outdoors so shooting is on hold till warmer weather arrives. But learning isn't and I am watching videos and reading books geared towards CC and self defense, even though that is not my specific goal, it is an interesting subject.
One area that is intensely covered is mindset and attitude. The whole point of carrying a handgun is to defend your life and the lives of those around you from an attacker.
Yesterday, I read many posts here on different threads about Fix The 26 and others who are attacking this forum and those on it, trying to "kill" it.
As I listened to the video last night, it came to mind that a fight is a fight no matter if it is a shootout at the mall or defending against the pro lifers. Either way, you just want to be left alone to live or die your own way. I took notes on some bullet points that caught my attention in this regard.
"In order to effectively defend yourself, you must not DEFEND, but instead, counter attack with maximum intensity."
"Playing defense means you are always reacting, waiting until your attacker lands that fatal blow."
"He doesn't expect you to fight back."
How does this apply here? The mother whose son committed suicide and was a member here has published all over the place. By doing so, she has fired the first shot. I am not familiar with the details of this story but I would bet a nickle that he posted negative things about his family and how they were, at least partly, the driving force to his suicide. So what can be done? Aggressively publish his posts next to hers. Is that ethical? Maybe not. But if you think of it in that way, she will win because she is not thinking of what is ethical or right. She wants to kill sanctioned suicide.
"Be 100% confident that deadly force is needed. Once you bring deadly force into the equation, it's either you or him."
"Your goal is to WIN."
People like her want to shut us down, to "kill" us (not literally, perhaps, but you know what I mean). It is in our mental mindsets to withdraw, to run and hide and lick our wounds (and I absolutely include myself in this), to avoid those people. If we do that, they will win.
We must fight them with everything we have, fight down and dirty, make them sorry they ever even heard of us. Publish and humiliate them for what they have done and are doing. Shine bright lights on their lies and their sins.
Can we do that instead of hiding? I don't know how but when I think about it, I actually feel better. I don't do reddit or FB or twitter or any of that.
The saying, "Don't get mad, get even" comes to mind.
So, made it this far? What say you?