This piece is designed to provide you with a few ideas to stimulate your creative thought processes. We’re all Constitution-loving, survival-oriented preppers who are always preparing for every emergency. The problem is that emergencies are not able to be “compressed” into a format: they arise. You plan the best you can, but there’s an age-old military adage that summarizes the whole situation, in a nutshell, “No battle plan ever survives the first five minutes of combat completely intact.”
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This is true, and places emphasis on the quality that made man the dominant species on this planet and enabled him to survive as long as he has: adaptability. In this light, there will be a time when you will need to defend yourself and do not have a weapon readily available. When such a situation presents itself, you must follow the advice of “Gunny Highway”/Clint Eastwood in the movie “Heartbreak Ridge,” advice that holds brevity and clarity:
“You improvise, you adapt, you overcome.”
That is eloquence swathed in simplicity. Yes. Two hoodlums, for example, are coming over to you at night in the parking lot after work. You can’t avoid them and get into your car before they’re on you. One clicks open a knife. It’s time to act. The action has to take place in a split second. Let’s say you’re unarmed – no firearms or blades, and you can’t escape. What now?
7 Improvised Defense Weapons That Could Save Your Life
Common objects on your person may either be utilized or prepared beforehand and then utilized. Let’s go through some of them you may have, and what to do with them:
- Keys: (this will take practice) – take three of them and slip them…