Say NO to "Passive Acceptance":

London's Metropolitan Police Service and other 'modern' police authorities around Western societies (including ours in NZ) have assumed to advise likely victims of violent assault and armed robbery not to resist ... RUN & HIDE. This repeated instruction technique has a brain-washing "conditioning" effect.

- If you are told something repeatedly (around ten times is viable) - even if the conscious brain disagrees - the sub-conscious accepts & complies with what is suggested.

(This is how television advertising, religions, military training, and politics all seek to influence us .. repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat .....)

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Some years ago a female relation expressed her concern that a prospective Employer was part of a group involved in "Defense Contracting" .. This impacted on her deeply held 'pacifist' anti-gun sentiment and she asked for comment on-line. - My contribution was for her to inquire as to what discount she might be offered on purchases of personal self defense equipment for her family.

This suggestion was in no way critical of her pacifism - as ANY sentient being with an IQ above a slug's will oppose the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

I too am a pacifist - and someway like the Swiss Nation - I strongly choose to never aggressively attack anyone - but will mightily and decisively defend myself & family when threatened.

- My issue is with anti-gunners who avow that they would rather be killed than use a weapon to defend themselves ! - Perhaps like some submissive dogs they would roll-over onto their backs and hope to be loved - rather than be struck again.
- Maybe there is a police phone 'App' for telling attackers that you want to be loved?😁

Perhaps their 'fear center' - the brain's amygdala isn't triggering enough emergency Cortisol to strengthen their muscles for fight or flight.

- Or perhaps they have been fed so much bullshit and deliberate lies that they now think that they can choose a "belief" or a comforting opinion to adopt & follow - rather than address life with a reality based plan.

Personally I manage (mostly) to differentiate between someone offering an opinion & someone presenting a fact.

FACT: - "Unarmed" NZ Police Use Glock 17 9mm Pistols.

 - This is very much like marketing people selling you "The Sizzle" rather than "The Steak".

Those people who voted for "Brexit" or Donnie Trump - claiming to make their lives "Great Again" - sucked in a pack of millionaire's lies - offering dreams to the underprivileged who were already rolling on their backs in financial difficulty.

WHEN someone is kicking you and robbing you blind ... you need to fight back - before you are dead.

- Physically you need to be as fit and as skilled as you can manage .... Politically you need to be as informed and realistic as you can be - to recognize liars & to vote sensibly.

(US Bureau of Statistics finds that people now read 30% LESS than they did in 2004)

pol·i·ti·cian

  (pŏl′ĭ-tĭsh′ən)

n.

1. One who is actively involved or skilled in politics, especially one who holds a political office.

2. One who deceives or outmaneuvers others for personal gain: distrusted him as the office politician.

We seem to be living through the most corrupt era ever. - Politicians (of all parties,) who by definition are corrupt - are spending their time and our money endlessly debating false issues - to distract us while picking our pockets and 'lining' their own.

We can change all of this .. train & practice - AND select some ordinary honest person to vote for (Pick a candidate's name out of the Electoral Role or 'phone book!) - who is not another millionaire politician.

.. How about a working nurse, - a teacher,  or an engineer for a 'term' - they'll get plenty of policy advice?

- Just for starters: Replace the 800 member unelected "House of Lords" or 'Upper House' with a Citizens Assembly with it's 101 members drawn by lottery - and trust them to think & speak as fair-minded responsible adults.

(- The same way that we trust 12 only Jurists in court to decide on serious criminal matters).

Gun Banners should note that a current study by The Small Arms Survey has determined that there are now over 1 Billion firearms on our planet - some 155 Million are in Military and Law enforcement hands - while 857 MILLION are held by civilians.(400 Million in USA).

"Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids."

- attribution allegedly Clint Eastwood

Marty K.