(1205) Afternoon all, just finished a nice brunch, coffee at the ready, here we go. (1237)

 

Personal defence

Defence is only partly this scenario:

It’s also the home invasion, due to come soon enough when Them decide it’s time to send out the sleeper cells armed from the cache in religious buildings.

Aside from both those scenarios, there is also your decision whether to venture out or not. These are decisions of life and limb. Now … it’s all very well us going on here about how it should be out there … it’s simply not, is it … thus personal safety is the primary thing to take care of. Much easier at home, as you can arrange the “welcome”, plus the fewer the entrances to the abode, the narrower the entry … the more easily defended.

Govt is your next consideration. If you do any more than shield, e.g. with old style rubbish bin lid, then you are the “aggressor” in corrupt and/or Woke Plod’s eyes … minimum “process is the punishment” nine hours at the station, through to being banged up with the very elements you’ve been attacked by.

I’d suggest that that’s the worst scenario, that last one, whilst the second worst is the one in the picture above … and the third is the home invasion. Any which way, expect zero mercy.

In certain ways, the outside encounter gives you a better chance, providing you can be back to a wall or able to scarper (preferable). So build your route into your plan. It would need to be some compulsory call from outside to force you out, e.g. a medical appointment.

If I say use your stout walking stick as a blocker, that’s legal to say. What I can’t say is how to attach something you’re carrying concealed onto the end of that stick, I can’t suggest you think “thrust”. I certainly can’t suggest where to thrust to.

What I can say is that if you get jumped, as that man did … why did you? I’m suggesting that that is way too late. Also, how can I put this … three to five assailants are too many, esp. if older and/or out of condition.

I also must not suggest, legally, that you pre-empt. I can suggest though “learned calm demeanour”. Panic is death, odds on. I’d suggest a metre and a half as your Rubicon and the word Stop delivered calmly. Anything after that is fair game.

I’d further suggest that anything after the Rubicon is you behind bars in this society, either way. So you do have decisions to make before you even think of going out, locking your front door. Plus the “resolve” to go with your pre-decisions, no backtracking.

See, we’re not talking bravado here, being a hard man, any of that. We’re talking survival … simply that … unmaimed.

That’s as much as I can legally suggest.