There’s a lot of reasons to carry the great equalizer.
Violent criminals. Lunatics. Terrorists.
And, angry bullies who take offense to your mere presence. It doesn’t matter if you took a wrong turn, or are simply in the public right of way passing the time. They don’t like you for no good reason, other than perhaps the color of your skin or the way you part your hair.
It may have happened to you.
It’s happened to me.
For me, it was a number of years ago with my first wife. We were on vacation, visiting some of her family members in Mississippi. They were wonderful people and we had a great time. While there, we went for a ride one day and took a wrong turn. It was a very rural area and both sides of the road were lined with tall grass.
Two shirtless white guys who looked like their ancestors could have been at the casting call for Deliverance stepped out of the weeds. They were carrying a canoe and one carried a machete. They gave me the evil eye as we went by. The very evil eye. I was quite glad to have made it past them but then the road turned into a dead end a half-mile down, past a couple of curves.
As we turned around, I was never so glad as to have that reassuring feel of, at the time, a Beretta 92 on my hip. We drove past them, not slowing one bit this time, but I was ready if they forced us to stop for some reason.
In Milwaukee, a video has surfaced of a young white woman who for whatever reason, ended up in the northern part of that city where a two blacks, a female and a male, proceeded to accost her and stomp her into the ground. The male repeatedly kicked her about the head.
Frankly, had I been there, I probably would have drawn down on the head-stomping half of the equation and quite possibly punched his ticket.
This video does nothing but serve as another example of why it’s prudent to be aware of your surroundings and to have a means to defend yourself from violent criminal attack.
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