Update Your EDC To Meet Today's Threats: My Story

 Are you carrying enough gun and ammunition? Probably not. 

My "EDC" BEFORE an increase in active shootings and growth of global terror groups: 11 rounds of 230 Grain .45 cal FMJ and a small knife.

Why do you carry a gun? Knife-wielding meth zombies? Rapists? Armed robbers? In those cases brandishing a Sig P250 might be enough to send such attackers running. Currently, however, America is facing violent threats uncommon to our society a generation ago. This means you need more gun  unless that P250 is a backup weapon.

When I moved back to the United States in 2003, after living abroad for seven years, I resided in a state different from where I was born. All of the firearms from my younger years were at a family  home thousands of miles from my new adopted state. I was essentially unarmed. That quickly changed once I got a roof over my head and a new driver's license.

Soon after acquiring my first "carry" pistol I received my CCW license, but rarely carried. I lived in a trendy downtown neighborhood and never thought much about crime. My then new Glock 30 sat gathering dust on a shelf in the closet of my master bedroom. There was an indoor gun range near my home but I rarely practiced. I didn't see any practical use in standing in a lane repeatedly loading, shooting, and reloading. It bored the bag off me, and even if I did go to the range I never burned through more than a 100 rounds. 

That all changed when I was introduced to a weapons instructor who was also retired US Army SF. No, I don't mean a super Ninja, stolen valor, phony Navy Seal weapons instructor. I mean a real former member of US Special Forces who taught gun fighting over just "shooting."

The handgun fighting techniques I learned from that former First Sergeant were like nothing I had ever seen or heard. Shooting with my eyes closed, shooting from the hip, shooting off handed and, of course, shooting and reloading cover to cover. I was the most confident I had ever been with a firearm.

Unfortunately my firearms instructor became my "former" firearms instructor when he took a better paying contractor job with, what was then, Blackwater in Iraq. It was at that time I asked, "what, as a civilian, will I ever do with knowledge of gun fighting techniques?"

Fast forward twelve years to a post financial collapse economy, weak and uncertain job sector, open southern border, unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, ubiquitous illicit drug cartels, record number of active shooting events (in gun free zones), and the explosive growth of Islamic terror, and I now know why I spent time and money learning to fight with a gun.

My EDC NOW: 40 Rounds of 230 Gr .45 Cal. FMJ, light, and a larger knife.

Carrying a gun is not about "feeling" safe. Carrying a gun is about ensuring that those who would injure or kill you are injured or killed by you.  If you are not carrying enough gun and ammo to deal with the worst of the aforementioned bad guys, you need to update. Times have changed.

Be armed. Be trained. Be prepared.

America's Next Total War: Allied Muslim Nations Will Not Defeat Islamic Jihad

-Muslim nations, currently living under some form of oppressive Islam, will not defeat ISIS or like terror groups.

 

What will the global conflict with militant Islam look like on 20 January 2017? Will the professorial Marxist Obama have "dismantled and defeated" the planet's most infamous Islamic death cult, or will ISIS be stronger than ever with more territory, arms, and personnel? Will ISIS be a distant memory, on Obama's last day in the White House, or will Italy's capital city be a smoldering mound of ash bearing a giant black and white flag?

Since he created ISIS in Syria, Libya, and Iraq Obama has delegated the responsibility for the "defeat" of ISIS to our Muslim allies in the region. But if you believe the war with terror can be won by nations like Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey ask yourself, “What exactly are our Muslim allies fighting for?” Is it freedom, individual liberty, economic opportunity, social-political diversity, and adherence to a constitution founded on the aforementioned? None of these social or legal concepts, exclusive to America, exist in the Muslim world.

In addition to our Muslim ally nations being unimpressed, if not repulsed, by American concepts of freedom and liberty, our Muslim ally armies are generally weak, corrupt, nepotistic, inadequately-trained, and overall ineffective fighting forces against highly-motivated suicidal terrorist groups like ISIS.

Daesh (ISIS), after all, is not killing Muslims simply because they are “Muslim.” Daesh is killing Muslims who either oppose them on field of battle or do not accept ISIS brand of Sharia. In other words, do not oppose Daesh and accept their form of Sharia and you, as a Muslim, have a good chance of being incorporated by their "Islamic state.” To our Muslim allies in the cross hairs of ISIS such an incorporation might be more attractive than a dilatory beheading on YouTube.

9 people killed in Czech pub shooting

Whether your attacker is a terrorist, an active shooter, or chef's knife-wielding meth zombie you need to be armed when in public. 

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