{"id":34688,"date":"2020-05-21T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=34688"},"modified":"2020-05-21T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:01:04","slug":"a-common-epitaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/a-common-epitaph\/","title":{"rendered":"A Common Epitaph"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34690\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/sick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"274\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/defense-training.com\/archives\/4931\">John Farnam<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><em>\u201cWho are without swords can still die upon them!&#8221; <\/em>From &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h2>In reporting yesterday\u2019s mall shooting in AZ, local media reiterated this all-to-common epitaph:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>\u201cWhen police arrived at the mall, the scene was no longer active\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Additional details are still emerging, but the above headline is the point of this Quip!<\/h2>\n<h2>Seldom do police arrive while shots are still being fired! No matter how fast the police response, the \u201cincident\u201d is almost always over by the time police get there, and police are thus not usually in a position to affect the outcome.<\/h2>\n<h2>Police arriving \u201cin the nick of time\u201d is mostly confined to movies!<\/h2>\n<h2>Accordingly, when you find yourself in such a dire circumstance, the only person in a position to save your life will likely be you, and only you. Having the heart, ability, and confidence to act unhesitatingly and precisely, at the critical moment, will save your life, and there is nothing else in the universe that can!<\/h2>\n<h2>At that instant, all else is nonsense!<\/h2>\n<h2>You\u2019re ready, or you\u2019re not. Either way, the moment passes!<\/h2>\n<h2>Fools think that being deliberately unarmed and unprepared provides some kind of phantasmal protection, as they can depend upon the \u201cchivalry\u201d of violent criminals.<\/h2>\n<h2>Countless unarmed victims of criminal violence can tell you how well that works!<\/h2>\n<h2><em>&#8220;Martyrdom is overrated&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via John Farnam \u201cWho are without swords can still die upon them!&#8221; From &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; In reporting yesterday\u2019s mall shooting in AZ, local media reiterated this all-to-common epitaph: \u201cWhen police arrived at the mall, the scene was no longer active\u201d Additional details are still emerging, but the above headline is the point of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,4802],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}