Analyze Colorado Springs Shooting

Here is one of those tactical analysis situations, again. It is based on a shooting in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

First, go to the link & read the article. Then tell me whether or not the shooting was justified. Careful, though. Read & analyze thoroughly.

If there is insufficient information for you to make a judgment, then give me hypotheticals: "If it went down [this way], then it was a justifiable shooting." Give reasons (that hopefully correspond to Biblical principles) for your conclusions.

Here's the link:

Colorado Springs Shooting

I will probably post a follow-up on Monday. Thanks to my barber for sending me the link to this article.

Locate Sex Offenders

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

(Proverbs 22:3)

Forewarned is forearmed. (Old saying)

Here is an online information tool that will pinpoint the residences of registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. Just type in your address, and it generates a map with your house at the center and markers for registered sex offenders who live and/or work within a radius of about four or five miles.

The results may surprise you. I know they surprised me.

This information may change how you think about the safety of your neighborhood. It may also move you to teach your children to think & act tactically.

Here's the link:

Family Watchdog

Only Me

My daughter Merrianna wrote this when she was 15. I had published it on another blog which is soon going to be dismantled. Thought it was appropriate for the WARSKYL context.

Only Me

When I was compassionate,
I did not know I was.
I knew only
I had been there;
I knew how it felt,
So I said so.

When I was courageous,
I did not feel brave.
I knew only
It had
To be done,
So I did it.

When I was full of loss,
I did not feel noble.
I felt only
The pain,
And alone
I wept.

But those to whom I had compassion
Remembered me.
Those for whom I was courageous
Thanked me.
Those who saw I was full of loss
Honored me.

But it was only
Who I was
And what was
To be done.
God worked it all.
I was only me

Sheepdog Chef Foils Would-Be Robber

My barber drew my attention to this news story. His only comment was that "this has you written all over it!!!!" I wonder what he means by that?
;-)

The incident took place in Waukesha Wisconsin. Here's the account as related in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

According to a criminal complaint and restaurant employees, a man wearing a black motorcycle helmet and black leather jacket entered Williams Supper Club, S76-W17745 Janesville Road, about 10 p.m. Friday from the rear kitchen entryway, grabbed an employee by the arm and said, "Give me the money or I will shoot you."

The complaint says the man, later identified as Geraci, also told restaurant employees he had a knife. When one employee asked Geraci who he was, Geraci replied: "Would you want to die? I have a gun," the complaint says.

Bartender Terri Blight pulled two bags of cash from behind the bar and gave it to Geraci, the complaint says.

. . . . The chef, Erik Minor, and a cook, Andrew Tess, realized what was happening and fought back, Blight said.

The chef hit Geraci on the helmet with a large metal spoon, and the spoon broke in half, according to the complaint.

The chef then grabbed Geraci, put him in a headlock, dislodged the helmet and wrestled him to the floor. A customer and Tess helped pin Geraci down until police arrived, the complaint says.

Minor on Monday said he at first didn't realize Geraci was robbing the restaurant. He said he went after Geraci because Geraci had an employee by the arm.

"I wasn't going to let someone manhandle an employee," Minor said. (emphasis added)

Chef Erik Minor's motivation and reaction was that of a sheepdog.

He gets an "A" for attitude & mindset, and also for improvised weaponry. Let's also not neglect to mention his grappling skills.

Kudos as well to the unnamed customer and to Andrew Tess, the cook who helped restrain the robber until police arrived.

I'm not sold on the idea of using a headlock on a man who claims to be armed. But thank the Lord, the crook was bluffing.

Does this remind you of Under Siege (caution: movie contains language & nudity)? As you may recall, Seagal's character was a ship's cook who put the hurt on a bevy of terrorists who had hi-jacked a nuclear-armed navy vessel.

You just never know who may be wearing that white apron and poufy hat.

Choosing Sides

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

(Eph 6:10-13)

Choose your friends carefully, because on the basis of your friendships, your enemies will choose you.

It's not just the friends you choose, though. It's every choice you make. If you choose red meat, vegans will hate you and brand you a murderer.

If you choose to defend your daughter's (sister's/mother's) sexual purity, then the feminists will ascribe incestuous motives to you.

Most of all, if you choose Christ as your Saviour, Lord and King, all the forces of wickedness up to and including Satan himself will array themselves against you. Even now, as they continue in their slide toward the fiery pit, they snarl and sneer and lash out against God's elect.

Most of you I do not know well, if at all. But if you have chosen to follow the posts on WARSKYL for the right reasons, we probably could be friends. And if our choices define us . . . if our friends and our enemies define us, then I think we have chosen well.

"Have You Ever Thought about Putting Your Rifle Away?"

At the end of his interview with Benjamin Busch, National Public Radio correspondent Scott Simon asked, "Have you ever thought about putting your rifle away?" He wisely avoided commenting on the answer and let the interview end there.

I sometimes find NPR's liberal bias maddening. This interview, however, is a listening must. Here is the link:

Bearing Arms

Thanks to my wife Laura for drawing my attention to this powerful audio presentation.

WARSKYL: A Christian Martial Art?, 2

Continued from "WARSKYL: A Christian Martial Art?"

Having arisen out of the heart of Buddhist faith and practice, the Eastern civilian arts developed as more than methods of self-defense. They served as a means to pursue self mastery & perfection and, ultimately, to escape the limitations of existence.

Under the Meiji regime in Japan, the samurai were suppressed, along with the unarmed combat arts. In response, the arts downplayed their self-defense applications and emphasized their disciplines as philosophical paths to enlightenment.

Thus karate (whose ideograph can be interpreted as Chinese fist), became karate-do (now interpreted as "the way of the empty hand"). Jigoro Kano transformed jujitsu (supple technique) into Ju-do (now interpreted as "gentle way").

Jujitsu seems to be the first Eastern art to gain a following in the West in the late 19th & early 20th Centuries. Among the best of the various manuals of jujitsu published in the US during that period was Secrets of Jujitsu by Captain Allen C Smith.

As a logical-thinking Scot, Smith was able to assimilate, analyze and explain the aspects of Eastern arts that are difficult for Westerners to understand. He transformed his jujitsu into a Western art by separating it from its Eastern philosophical and mystical environment.

I have had enough jujitsu training to know what will likely work & what won't. Smith's book teaches principles and includes training exercises that provide a practitioner with the necessary kinesthetic sense to achieve a measure of proficiency in the art.

One of my long-range plans is to include Smith's instruction, along with comments and supplementary drills, in a Big Book of WARSKYL Self-Defense and Combat Skills. It would also include material from my "12 Techniques" book and from the WARSKYL Conference.

At any rate, World War II rekindled an interest in the combat arts. W E Fairbairn combed through the techniques of the Eastern arts to isolate a few that were brutally effective and simple enough to learn in a short period of training.

Thus, WWII Combatives came into the world as a true martial art.

To be continued.