31Aug05

Comments on 1911 maintenance:

"Every comment applies across the board, regardless of make or model . We treat our water heater, furnace, even our cars with a large dose of neglect . As a result, they fail from time to time. Such failures are irritating, but usually not fatal. This is a serious issue, my brother and sister warriors . When you treat your fighting tools with disrespect, neglect, and indifferen ce the result may well be fatal, and you won't get a second chance!

Many are neither qualified nor competent to own or use guns. They need to get a spear or something else their minds can handle. Don't join t hat herd. Don't wait for an issue to rear its ugly head. Stay ahead of it, alert, awake, prepared, and trained. Anything less is dangerously foolish, and disrespects our creed."

Comment: Can't put it better!

/John

31Aug05

Disaster in New Orleans. Lessons for all of us:

Currently, New Orleans is a non-functioning city. Likewise for the surrounding area. Public order has completely broken down over thousands o f square miles. No utilities. No services. No food/water. No sanitary facilities , No way to communicate. No way to get out. Total anarchy! Everyone there is on their own and will be for the foreseeable future. They'll be lu cky to live through it! Death toll will likely exceed that for 9/11. Ripple effe cts throughout the entire nation are substantial and will steadily grow. We are

all going to feel the effects. This has never happened in America anywhere

near this scale before. Some parts of New Orleans will never be rebuilt, n or should they be. This is not a Hollywood screenplay. It is happening, for real, right now, right here in America! This civilization cannot absorb man y more blows like this one.

Mercenary gangs of looters, carjackers, and other criminals, many armed, ar e terrorizing anyone they can find. Swarming into business, homes, even hospitals, looters are bypassing food and drink to steal television sets, j ewelry, and computers. Police and National Guard are unable to respond. Residents will have to protect themselves and their property by themselves, any way t hey can. We can only pray their firepower and training are up to the task. If

not, they're toast. Nobody can help them.

A friend in the fuel distribution business in OH tells me there is no crude

flowing north. Disruption in the supply chain will last for weeks, at leas t. He advises all of us to fill up.

During a televised interview yesterday, a reporter asked LA's govern or how the people currently housed in the Superdome were going to be evacuated. S he mumbled incoherently and then defaulted to typical, political double-talk. When pressed, she became exasperated and finally blurted "We're in crisis mo de now, and we don't know what we're going to do". How inspiring! Sad that, in our democracy, so many mumbling, bumbling bureaucrats like this one are in important, executive positions for which they are obviously unqualified.

If you're wondering if there is a point lurking in all this, it is t hat this massive disaster serves to illustrate how we, and only we, are individually

responsible for our health and safety. PREPAREDNESS CAN NEVER BE RETROACTIVE. We all need to be self-contained, and important decisions to that end must be made by each of us right now, and acted upon unilaterally, rather than listening to elected grasseaters and waiting on them to make decisions for us.

/John

31Aug05

Comments on the catastrophe in New Orleans:

"Real reason the Superdome is being evacuated is that there have bee n so many assaults, robberies, and rapes, everyone has concluded it is unsafe to

remain there."

"Firearm section of Wall-Marts have all been cleaned out by gangs of looters. Bands of armed VCAs are freely roaming the city now, committing v iolent crimes at will, unafraid of interference from police or the NG."

"My mother is here with me in Baton Rouge. We are running off a ge nerator. There is enough juice for lights, fans, and the refrigerator, but not enoug h for central air. My brothers are staying at their homes to protect them fro m looting, which is rampant. No one begrudges the hungry for taking food, bu t these people are taking everything of value except food, including appliances, athletic shoes, and booze. They are also committing rapes and assaults. Both my brothers have found it necessary to point shotguns at roaming bands

of looters. Fortunately, the looters immediately thought of somewhere else

they needed to be! They're impressed with firepower, little else. Gunsh ots can be heard throughout the area. One can call the police, but they=80 re not coming."

"Real life is different from the square range, eh? In real life, t ough guns rule! After a beautifully-blued, tightly-fitted, tack driving 1911 rusts shut, the owner might be looking for a good spear. He'll surely need something, considering the antics of the disturbed classes down here! =9D

"I've decided to change my procedure for going to back-up pistol. I will now retain my primary pistol rather than jettisoning it. Tossing the only other gun I have into two feet of dirty water is a bad idea when no help is

coming for the foreseeable future. Same with reloading. I'm making the permanent transition to military reloading, rather than speed reloading. Give the current direction of world history, I've come to believe these chan ges in personal tactical doctrine are necessary."

/John