The murder of Johnathan Joss should be a wake-up call. Staying armed isn’t about fantasy. It’s not about cosplay. It’s not even about violence. It’s deterrence. Against tyranny, street predators, or fate itself. You don’t need to fire a shot for a gun to save your life. 🧵
One time, I responded to a multiple fatality wreck. It was a Ford excursion with a dad and 8 young girls on their way to Utah for some sort of girls camp. They had a front right blowout, dad over corrected left, and it rolled, tossing 5 girls out of onto the highway, killing them all. The dad's head was crushed between the ground and the door frame because it was half out the window during the roll, and the other two girls were killed inside the vehicle because they were sleeping in the back and bouncing around while the suv rolled causing all sorts of blunt force trauma. I was on that fatal for 27 hours holding sheets for the coroner so she could determine the time of death and helping put them all in body bags and into coroner vans, doing traffic control, getting debris off the highway, helping the tow truck driver load the suv... One of the firefighters who responded had a daughter in that suv. The other firefighters didn't let him get out of the truck, turned it around, and took him home to his wife...