Unprepared!

24 Sept 09

This sad note from a State Trooper, and one of our Instructors:

"I attended one of our training sessions today, conducted at our Academy, by our Joint Terrorism Task Force. Instructors pointed out the way terrorists predictably target crowds of unarmed people when planning attacks. They showed us video after video, of terrorist after terrorist, shooting up tightly-packed crowds of unarmed people, and detonating suicide bombs.

During the show, I looked around the room at just short of one-hundred, unarmed Troopers. Yes, we're all unarmed (myself excluded, because I don't give a damn about their stupid 'guidance'), because leaving gun-belts in vehicles is 'encouraged' at the Academy. They're all so afraid of guns, you know!

Then, I glanced at the doorway, 'guarded' by a tottering geriatric, also unarmed.

I thought to myself: When terrorists strike here, I, for one, am armed, and I have a plan. But, I'm the only one!

We are truly on our own, even in a room full of uniforms!"

Comment: All too typical!

While piously paying lip service to public safety, many of us are routinely unprepared to protect even ourselves.

History does not deal kindly with the willfully naive!

/John