Yeah, but why me? - Reality Check

While walking through a rice paddy one of the Marines I was with was shot. The Midwestern cop was shot while being submissive, doing what she thought was the right thing at the time. You must ask yourself when, or if, someone confronts you on the street, what will be your response? Will you brain-lock on this fleeting question of "why me?" Or, will you respond with rapid, deadly force to save a life, without wasting time philosophizing?

And, why you? Because you, like me, and maybe to our collective surprise, are simply not exempt from life, and bad things can happen to good people. We may simply be in the way of an idea some miscreant has at a particular moment. But we're in the way.

Most of all, it's because the bad guys will do what they do best, and most don't care who fails in the process. We mean nothing to them, they are predators and set on winning. But, of course, that's only if we allow them to win.

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