Duck and Cover

Back during the Cold War — and still, if we wanted to be honest about it — the danger of a nuclear attack was a real possibility deterred by the one thing that always keeps aggressors at bay — the probability that the target possessed sufficient firepower, capability and will to destroy an initiator of violence. That’s also true for individual attackers. We, each of us, can possess the means to defend ourselves, our loved ones, and those for whom we have accepted responsibility. In the face of evil, we can play Bert the turtle and retreat into our shells while a monster slaughters innocents depending on us for protection, or we can assume our role as free men and women who provide the only true civil defense, that which the founders deemed necessary to the security of a free State.