Top 5 Alternative Defensive Options When Your Weapons are Taken From You

I struggled with the title “alternative defensive options when your weapons are taken from you’. I wasn’t quite sure how to word that without writing the entire post in the title. In the end, it’s just as it seems.  How to defend yourself with means alternate to the obvious.

What am I going on about?  First off, have you read George Orwell’s 1984? If you haven’t, you should.  Anyone that can take a look at what our first world government is doing from a detached stance can see many parallels to the ‘IngSoc’ or “English Socialism” that Orwell describes in that book.  How socialism with it’s tendencies of micromanagement can turn into a authoritative and fascist regime, and further, how people emotionally thrive in oppression and somehow show love to their government, Because government is always there for the people, right?

If anyone doesn’t get the above reference, seriously? Go look up Tienanmen square and what happened in China in 1989. 

So I believe the government, which is supposed to represent the people, actually controls the people, and will do so more and more as the years go by and the population grows and resources become more scarce.  It happens on a small scale, it happens on a large scale, it’ll happen before, it’ll happen again.

It’s one of the main reasons I think that the government of the United States is trying to set up a gun grab to disarm all its people – a little at a time. First it’s ‘assault rifles’ Then any semi auto. Then anything over a certain caliber, and so on and so forth. It’s not because little kids are getting shot up – a horrible instance but still very, very rare. More people have died in car crashes in two days in the U.S. than in the school shooting history.  More kids have been killed with handguns than rifles. Less than 1% of people killed with guns have been killed with rifles.  Why is the U.S. government and the left winged media trying to get rid of AR-15′s and semi autos in general? Because in guerilla style warfare (which will be what happens with a resistive underground force), handguns mean almost nothing and rifles are everything.  It’s true.  A handgun is inaccurate and weak at distance, and a rifle is not.

So at some point expect total government bans on everything you have in your gun cabinet.  Just like the people of China experienced, just like Cuba, just like every other red country that is completely controlled by its government.  It’ll happen. 

So, if it does happen and you find yourself in a position of having to defend yourself in anarchy from hungry crowds and large gooberment tanks, how do you do it?  Here are my top 5 ideas.

1. Avoidance is, and always will be best

Avoid conflict if possible. The best fight you have to get into is the one that you don’t actually have to get into. Make yourself an uappealingn target. Don’t flaunt your valuables. Dress to blend in, not to stand out. That means if you are still in the city, look like everyone else. Have a ratty backpack, not a $400 hiking pack.  Don’t get the camo out until you’re actually in the woods.  Keep your eyes open and if you see trouble coming your way, avoid it. Stay in well lit areas. Avoid isolating yourself. Don’t get into the fight if at all possible.

2. Have a group, and stay in it.

Being in and amongst a group of people friendly to you makes all of you a harder target.  It’s why birds and small fish form flocks and schools.  Predatory people always look for the easy kill, and if you move in a large group, you aren’t an easy kill. Sure, you’re more visible, but I’m pretty sure your Ninjutsu stealth skills are limited to the XBox only.  You will be seen anyways, and being in a group of people makes it harder for the predator to steal from you, rape you, kill you without getting the crap kicked out of them. 

3. A Walking Stick

Even if you aren’t gimped out, a cane or walking stick is a good idea. It’ll help you over rough terrain, but more importantly you have a defensive object already in your hand, ready to go.  If someone threatens you or tries to hit you or beat you, use the stick or cane to defend yourself with.

4. The Nut/Throat shot

Yea, you’re a big tough guy and you want to be fair. But if you’re being attacked, that’s already dirty.  Especially because they will likely use greater numbers, bigger weapons, and dirty tactics.  So you must do the same. Punch/kick/hit them with the walking stick in the throat or testicles. Once they are incapacitated, run.  It sounds like a little girls way to fight but when the fight is for your life or the only possessions you have that keeps your life safe (lighter, water filter, the last of your food), then you need to make sure you don’t give them any second chances. Incapacitate them and run, and make yourself scarce.

5. Something a Little More Lethal

If it all goes south, having a knife on your belt or a folding knife in your pocket is invaluable. It helps you break up kindling for fire, cut rope, use it on a magnesiuim stick to create sparks, there are endless uses for knives.  If you do end up getting attacked and it’s looking like you’re going to be killed or worse, and you walking stick has been taken or it’s not an option, pull out the knife. If you’re going to get killed you need to take your would be killer out of the picture. You or them, choose you if given no other choice.

There’s my top 5 for defending yourself if the government takes your firearms away then society takes a giant dump.  I’d be keen to hear any other suggestions, how would you defend yourself?