What's Next

Never ask, I've always said. If a string of bad things follows you, it seems to bring more negative stuff, when you in exasperation mutter, 'what's next?'. I used to caution my old friend Schluepy (Who taught me to house paint while in college.) not to ask that. Seems easy to wallow in adversity, to give up. It leads to lack of control and acceptance of whatever comes. Schluep was worth better. We all are.

As a statement, it has potency. It's active. Especially right now re the shootings just experienced, it gives us momentum to examine what happened and what might. A question posed from THAT base is what we must ask.

You could have knocked me over with a feather, if I hadn't expected it -s-. First the church shooting. Then the incident of serial shootings in Alabama. There was even a multiple school shooting in Germany (Along with a list if incidents in other European countries over a period of time.). From what happened in each case to the reporting of the mainstream 'authorized' press, it's obvious the wallowing in adversity, in this case dancing in the blood of victims, is underway.

Our buddies in the 'authorized press' have carefully worded and spread these stories all over the various media. I haven't seen anything overt such as 'ban the guns now', though the antis are ready. Maybe somewhere there is. They are a little more subtle, perhaps not by much, in how they described these incidents.

I've seen 'cache', 'arsenal', 'heavily armed', etc. Nondescript guys, troubled for various reasons. The Alabama guy had a list of people who 'did him wrong' (None of whom were shot that day.). The pastor killer was said to suffer from Lyme's Disease (Have heard pros and cons re how that can adversely affect.). The German shooter was a former student who returned and killed 15 people. There have been recaps of previous shootings in recent years. So it goes.

These events happened swiftly. The guy in Germany shot most of the vics in the head, it was said. One account said it lasted 2 minutes. The Illinois pastor shooting happened fast too. And the Alabama shootings occured quickly in succession. Fast. No slow motion.

Events such as these come upon us quickly indeed. That's why we must be ready ALWAYS to defend ourselves. Fast. No slow motion (In retro for some instances, they can SEEM slow.).

The pastor tried to run. He was shot. People in the German school were caught unawares (sic). So it was for the folks gunned down in Alabama. NONE were armed, even in Alabama.

Bad things go down in rapid order or disorder. We must be ready to respond immediately, and be ARMED.

In Illinois, you can't carry 'legally', though folks can have guns in the home with the silly FOID card. Same in Germany re carry (the kid there stole his gun from his dad's collection, supposedly locked away.). A little surprising was in rural Alabama, where there are a great many guns. It surprised Mike Vanderboegh too. However, Here is what I think.

First, not everyone is armed, even in Alabama or here in Indiana. Next, if someone had been carrying, they may or may not have been able to respond. Time and place. And if someone HAD stopped the killer, it would not have gotten the press it did. Whether at first or down the line, if a decent honest citizen had defended his/herself successfully, it would have been played down. Possibly the 'press' would talk about how bad guns are anyway. But there would be no widescale dancing in victims' blood.

What must be remembered is up to 2 1/2 million times a year people DO successfully defend themselves with firearms. Even though these examples are tragic and yes I pray for those hurt and killed, they are not common. I believe there was a response from many Freedom minded folks about the shootings.

That response has exposed and countered what the antis have in mind for us. For now. There will be more and I bet something devastating. But again, maybe not. IF we keep aware. IF we can educate too. What's next need not be fearful, unless we let it.

Awareness includes noticing the deployment of troops from Ft. Rucker, near Samson AL to supposedly backup the local cops. That's not right. It wss noticed. They did not get away with a fast one.

Of course, something could be a put up job, assured to give the Freedom sucking vampires what they want. Or, yet again maybe not.

No one can be everywhere at once. But, whereever we gunowners are, we should be ready. And if the worst happens, we must also be ready to defend our rights, no matter the cost. If we don't, the cost is our enslavement.

What's next only time will tell. Be vigilant. Both personally and for all Freedom loving Americans, be vigilant.

Watch for that gunfight around the corner, whether yours or for all of us.