Before I start i want to tell you I don't want to hear any crap about me having a ring doorbell camera. Bezos isn't going to lock me in my home because I have his stupid device, and it's already to late they have all your creepy text messages to your wife and all your insensitive memes about liberals, you're as good as dead.
Just before Christmas this past year near midnight Katy woke me to say "there's someone on the porch!" I was groggy and she showed me her phone, indeed there was a man on the porch. It's amazing how adrenaline will sober you up.
I jumped out of bed hurried to the closet to put on trousers (yes trousers, women and swabbies wear pants) and grabbed a pistol. As I was moving I said to Katy "say something", and she over the intercom said "yoo hoo, I see you" in pretty much as you can imagine a motherly and melodious voice. I grabbed her phone and said "I'M COMING FOR YOU" in no doubt three octaves lowers than my normal voice. I fumbled for bullets as I loaded my nine which is in a different safe than the ammo. I went down stairs after checking on kids to see they were in their beds. I turned off lights inside the house and turned on lights outside. I checked windows and doors and the house perimeter (what I could) got the dog riled up and sent her out after whatever burglar or burglars were out there. When I had done all of this I again snuck back to the front door and took a better look at where the culprit was seen on the camera. When I noticed what I hadn't seen before, a package. And as my eyes focused I made out a little Santa. Relieved I opened the door pistol still in hand, and retrieved the Christmas gift for my family; cash and chocolates.
It was a super tough and stressful time especially for me the dad who wasn't doing a great job providing for the family, but that's another story. This story is about being sober, watchful and ready.
Sober, well if the past two years haven't turned you into an alcoholic kudos to you. If it did you're among friends. So be healthy, make steps to be healthy and consider it Lent more often.
Watchful. You have a moral obligation to use the intellect you've been given. You need to stay up on current events enough not to be ignorant of them. You also need to question what you do know and what you've taken for granted.
Ready, this is the meat of the post after so many other words.
The night we thought we had a burglar I was slow and stupid. I did some things right (identify where the kids were) but having a weapon, unloaded locked up in two different safes and worst of all untrained in how to use said weapon is the definition of stupid. I grew up in a mildly conservative home in a liberal county in a liberal state. I saw a gun once at a another kid's house as a child. I shot .22s at boy scout camp but I never served in the military and really wasn't exposed to guns. But I bought a 9mm years ago from a cop under the logic of "welp, if I have it and need it it's better than not having it". This logic is true but not flushed out. You are only marginally better if you have a gun and don't know how to use it in the right situation, in the wrong situation you are much worse off.
So, obviously go get a gun, if you don't already have one or ten. Second learn to use it. Third, if you've done numbers one and two teach a friend. The second amendment is not about hunting rights but about serving as a check against tyrants (be it a robber or a government).
I wish to invite you all to teach me to shoot, and others. There's a lot of dummies out there with weapons and I think it would serve us all to have friends who won't shoot themselves in the middle of the night when another friend is playing secret Santa.
Because this blog/ group is named for a man who knew what evils live in the world; who should be one we look to for how to live and die when Russia's errors have completely spread its shadow throughout the world. you will need to know how to defend your wives and daughters from the cautionary tale told in Prussian Nights:
The little daughter’s on the mattress,
Dead. How many have been on it
A platoon, a company perhaps?
A girl's been turned into a woman,
A woman turned into a corpse.
It's all come down to simple phrases:
Do not forget! Do not forgive!
Blood for blood! A tooth for a tooth!
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