Civil Unrest and Riots: Why You MUST Be Armed to be Truly Prepared

If the scene in Baltimore, Maryland this week gives you a sense of deja vu, flashing back to the fall when Ferguson, Missouri was under siege, then this should be telling you something. There’s a distinct pattern when society breaks down, and as our society becomes more desperate, poverty-stricken, and lacking of moral compass, this trend will become more obvious. Note that the “lacking of moral compass” part doesn’t just refer to the thugs rioting and looting, but also to the cops who think that their badges give them permission to behave like street thugs, too. Here’s the pattern: An outrage occurs. Good people react and protest the outrage. Those perpetrating the outrage try to quell the protest because they don’t think that the outrage was actually outrageous.  (And whether it was or not can fluctuate – in some cases, force is necessitated, but in more and more cases, it is flagrantly gratuitous.) Others react to the quelling and join the protest. A mob mentality erupts. Thugs say, “Hey, it’s a free for all. I’m gonna get some Doritos and while I’m at it, beat the crap out of some folks for fun.” All hell breaks loose. The military gets called in. The city burns, and neighborhoods get destroyed, and no one in the area is safe. Cops act preemptively, out of fear, and for a time, there is no rule of law. If you happen to be stuck there, know this: you’re completely on your own. Tess Pennington wrote about societal breakdowns in more detail – read her excellent article for more information on these predictable scenarios. As people watch their precious freedom slip away, watch incidents of horrifying brutality from the people they were told as small children to trust, and watch their ability to earn a decent living disintegrate along with the national economy, you can expect this to happen more and more.  It doesn’t only happen in big cities like Baltimore, as we were shown when rioting hit Ferguson, a town of just over 20,000 people. It’s important to remember that when something happens that may (or may not)  be worthy of protest, professional rabble-rousers and race-baiters like Al Sharpton will actually organize folks from other areas to go and “protest.”  So even if you live in a small town filled with mostly good neighbors, you could be overrun with angry mobs that were imported specifically to wreak havoc and get their leaders some free press on the evening news. Some people are just waiting for the opportunity to behave in this fashion. They’d love to act like that every single day, but they don’t want to spend the rest of their lives in jail. But when a verdict gets rolled out, when a storm takes out the power, when a disaster strikes, they delight in the chance to rob, pillage, loot, and burn.  Who can forget the day before Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, when thugs were coordinating looting rampages via Twitter? I remember learning about “sublimation” in a high school psychology class. Sublimation is a defense mechanism that allows us to act out unacceptable impulses by converting these behaviors into a more acceptable form. For example, a person experiencing extreme anger might take up kickboxing as a means of venting frustration. Freud believed that sublimation was a sign of maturity that allows people to function normally in socially acceptable ways. (source) If you believe Freud’s theory, then it’s easy to see that many people look for an excuse to revert to their true natures.  In a situation where “everyone” is doing something, they are able to cast off their normal control of their impulses without much fear of reprisal. The number of looters and thugs far outstrips the number of arrests going on in Baltimore, so there’s a very good chance that someone swept up in that mentality can go burn somebody else’s home or business and completely get away with it. Let me reiterate this: DURING CIVIL UNREST SITUATIONS, YOU ARE COMPLETELY ON YOUR OWN. Do you think the people in the video above respect your home, your fence, or the locks on your doors? And while I’m at it, let me flash forward a bit to a hypothetical future.  These people aren’t even hungry. What if the world as we know it ended? What if there wasn’t food in the grocery stores? What if there was no longer any such thing as EBT, for those who have made a career out of milking the system? What if the police and military finally threw their hands up in the air, gave up, and went home to protect their own families?  Who’s going to keep your family safe then? You are. You have to realize that at any point in time, you could find yourself on your own, without backup from 911. Whether civil unrest is right outside your door. Whether a group of thugs decides to invade your home to rob and/or terrorize you. Whether the world we know goes down, via an EMP that takes out the grid,  civil war, economic collapse, or a breakdown in the national transportation network. The only person you can rely on to protect your family is yourself. You can stockpile until you have a decade of supplies put back, but if you can’t defend it, you don’t actually own it. You only have it because no one has bothered taking […] More news from The Real Agenda:

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