New American Truth

The only way to survive a violent attack and emerge victorious against evil is to train for it and respond to it with greater justified and completely moral violence. Until that reality becomes accepted and spread through our schools, violence will continue; the loss of innocent lives will continue; and politicians will continue to use such horrific events, leveraging them for their own power-grabbing agendas.

The law was given a nice simple name, picked by a team of politicians, I’m sure, to make it easily identifiable, short and somehow emotionally catching. But a law about “universal background checks” will no more be only about background checks than “Obamacare” (see? Just one word) is ONLY about extending health insurance to those too poor (or lazy) to afford it.

Let’s recognize that, thanks to the popular movies and television shows, most of us consider survival as having a combat/defense component. Sometimes it’s against a hoard of shuffling zombies and sometimes it’s against a well-organized pack of cannibals. Either way, and for all the variations in between, I don’t know a single survivalist / prepper who doesn’t include weapons in his (or her) planning and preparations.

Everyone has their own perceived preparedness level need. Everyone has their own perceived survival ability level. Combining the two, which is what we all do, creates a lot more than fifty different shades of preparedness. What’s yours?

You can be the best equipped, most prepared person on the planet but if you aren’t sufficiently fit to do the necessary work to survive, all that equipment and preparation is for naught. So, let’s start our survival preparation where we most need to: with ourselves.

True insanity is knowing that emergencies happen but making no plans or preparations to limit their impact on your life. True insanity is surviving, by pure luck, several dozen weather disasters and continuing to count on luck for your survival.

Mother Nature provides many of us with plenty of water – if we’re smart enough to catch and use it. Just last week the area I live in got a decent amount of rain. The forecast was for “two to three inches” over a 24-hour period.

If you’re not familiar with “Gibbs’ Rules” I invite you to do a Google search and you’ll find several reference sites with them. In the Borelli household we have a set of rules as well, but never before had I tried to actually list them. I could cite them, but they weren’t numbered like Gibbs’. SO… it was suggested to me that I do precisely that.

I can’t help but wonder if we’re seeing the beginnings of a second civil war. The first civil war didn’t start out with shots fired. It started out with states unhappy about federal power grabs and forced enforcement restricting rights that the confederate states felt were constitutionally exclusively theirs. Are we seeing the same thing again?

In this article we’re going to look at a few of the more popular handgun designs for the 9x19mm Parabellum, the pros and cons of each, and solicit your feedback on which is your preferred or favorite pistol (in this caliber).