This sounds a bit like standard prepping with a side order of 3-gun shooting matches. Prepared citizen movement growing among Americans | NewsNation
Does it seem like there is more chaos in the world, or is it just that more people are paying attention?
The “prepared citizen” movement is a growing trend in which people take proactive steps to become self-reliant and ready for various emergencies or crises. It includes hardcore military training, self-defense and tools such as first aid and emergency communication.
Or maybe "Prepared Citizen" is the new PC term for prepper.
“They were trying to learn how to shoot literally days before the Russians invaded,” said [Eric] Roscher, a U.S. Air Force veteran and owner of Barrel and Hatchet Trade Group. “And so they were almost, like, helpless. And I saw it was like in America, we shouldn’t have that problem. One, we have the Second Amendment, but we as citizens should have the ability to defend our country and ourselves, and it’s in our Constitution.”
It's an interesting article, given that the author of the piece seems to have been mostly clueless about prepping. There was one interesting statement.
“Riots, elections, foreign wars, people realizing that their safety is their own personal responsibility,” [Ben Brown, owner of Wise Men Company] said. “No one’s coming to save them.”
The first place I saw that phrase was in the Graham Killhouse Rules:
More people are waking up. The cloak of deceit is slipping away.
ReplyDeleteThis is the interesting times of my dreams. A self-governing people becoming ... self-governing once more.
Other than #4, this most every passage making sailor, outdoorsman, and aviator in mountainous terrain knows well. #4 is not foreign, simply less urgent.
ReplyDeleteThose who don't intrinsically know, yet still practice, make the headlines.