Developing an Effective Pre-Disposition for Violence

Good stuff from Mosby.

MountainGuerrilla

(My buddy Greg Ellifritz, of Active Response Training, linked to this older article the other day. I hadn’t read this one in a while, so I went back and re-read it. I stand by the article still, so decided to use it for this week’s feature post. We’ll go back to the Off-Grid discussion next week. –JM)

Originally published 7MAY2014.

I had a student in a class recently (IIRC, it was the Iowa Combat Rifle course, but I could be mistaken), ask the very serious question, “How do we prepare mentally for the act of killing another person?” While, after giving him the tongue-in-cheek answer of “go chop people’s heads off with a pen knife?” I gave the legitimate answer that it’s a matter of overcoming cultural conditioning, it’s a question that’s been nagging at my conscience ever since.

For the most part, neither I, nor…

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Inspirational Stories: Happiness is a $6K School Bus!!

Life on wheels: Pipe fitter quits work and sells his house to live in a $6,000 SCHOOL BUS because he was tired of a ‘lifestyle of debt’

As Mountain Guerilla said the other day:

“If we are actually PRACTICAL “preppers,” “survivalists,” or–to use the term I prefer–simply, “adult human beings,” we SHOULD be prepared for bad events and WTSHTF.”

Part of this “Being Prepared for Bad Events” is taking the attitude NOW to SIMPLIFY our lives as much as possible and to whatever degree your current economic status allows you. For some folks there might not be much you can do right now except minor changes, for others, Major changes can be made. Only you can decide what is best for YOU.

But know this, this story proves beyond a shadow of a doubt it can be done if the WILL is there to do it and the MENTAL ATTITUDE is present to re-define your priorities in life.

 

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!