“‘Unarmed combat’ is what we enter into when we have been foolish enough not to have a weapon”
WE Fairbairn
“Cheap advice” vs “Sage advice”
Cheap advice is foolish, imprudent, and little more than liberal-agenda-driven drivel, but it fits well within glib sound-bites, and like junk-food, it is readily-available, bland, and comfortable (at least for the shallow and self-centered). It is routinely mouthed by glamorous “experts,” invariably trotted-out by the liberal media in the wake of reported violent events.
Terms like “rare,” “random,” ‘isolated” are what we call “weasel words.” They’re always contained within cheap advice. They cynically understate real danger, brainwashing the naive into recklessly dismissing genuine risk. Odd that the same genera of “experts” tell us to always wear seatbelts while driving, even though car crashes are “statistically rare”
We hear these same “experts” endlessly insist that routinely carrying a concealed pistol represents an “over-reaction,” and is a sure sign of “paranoia” and other mental illness. Cheap advice goes on to insist that carrying deadly weapons for the sake of personal safety will “just escalate things.” Besides, they pompously add, “You’re too stupid to own a gun. Do nothing until ‘the professionals’ arrive.”
Yet, advice like “just call 911,” while sound, is incomplete. What they dependably leave out is, “… but understand you’ll be ‘on your own’ during the minutes or hours that tediously elapse until help arrives”
So, cheap advice offers party-line pat answers and half-truths. Conversely sage advice asks, “What’s important now? Are you going to be able to unilaterally finish the fight and immediately stop the threat?”
Lives and health of good people are worth more than the cost of cheap advice!
“Immature strategy is the cause of much grief”
Miyamoto Musashi
/John
