I am going to pick this one out of an otherwise reasonable post. Man, I get the concept as a platonic ideal, but my honest and frank sense is that there is no “likely” anymore. A body could be facing anything from a flash mob to a rare and random active shooter, to IEDs stateside (I’m fucking serious, btw: Mrs Totem and myself would have been at ground zero of an IED that made it into a netflix series, if not for a keen-eyed city employee—I’ve told that one here before) to EDPs, to substance abusers, to street bangers, to…
Sure, the DD PDW with optic in a bag is cool for an active that emerges at your 12, but is a non-starter in an up-close street robbery initiated by ruse. A J-frame in the pocket is awesome while pumping gas, but is something I’d prefer to keep to myself if caught up in some sort of antifa flash mob fuckery… and so it goes.
Maybe it’s just me coming hot off a good “attitude adjustment course” that I’ve seen enough times before to finally be able to start learning and processing, at a “conscious incompetence” level. Maybe it’s just a long weekend, drive, and some extra-curricular sport MUCing today. I dunno.
All to say, I suspect that we need to tailor our *software* patches to as many of the problems we are likely to face that we ideally can, which really ranges from nothing (most probable) up to horrific tactical imbroglios so myriad as to escape our collective ability to catalog them all.
Life is a crapshoot; get your SA game up, get some social literacy (and fluency) going, and learn to grapple enough to survive the initial surprise. You dance with what you bring. Don’t forget to look at the roses while counting thorns, too.
Not at all aimed at you directly, paherne, as I suspect you may well have forgotten more life experiences than I’ve had in this arena; I’m just musing aloud at that conventional wisdom turn of phrase.
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Cecil Burch, I hear you loud and clear, Maestro. I agree that someone will be solving the immediate problem—if it goes well—with what they’ve got left in the box, and without that spare mag. Problems tend to cluster and stack though. ;)
JMO.