The Junkyard Dog: January 2011

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It's an instructional book to show people how to develop a straightforward, but comprehensive mindset or mental attitude to be aware of their surroundings, make simple but effective plans, and know when to put them into action. You can read a preview of the book online. A lot of people say that we need to develop a warrior attitude, but that just doesn't work for everyone. In my book I'll show you, regardless of age, gender, background, physical ability, and especially attitude how to be better prepared to survive the bad events in life by becoming a junkyard dog. Just click here.

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Monday, January 3, 2011

Armed American Radio

Last night I was a guest on Armed American Radio. This is one of the fastest growing radio shows in the country, and last night they added local stations in Illinois and California to their growing pool of listeners. The show covers topics associated with firearms ownership, legislation and crime. One interesting aspect of the show was my discussion with host Mark Walters about the murder of a Georgia police officer by a career criminal. It seems crazy that the justice system allows violent offenders to get into a cycle of being caught and released to commit another violent crime, caught and released again.

We agreed that the legal system has to be reined in to do more with repeat offenders than just put them in this revolving door system that has been a problem for decades. (Does anybody remember career criminal Willie Horton, who gained notoriety during the 1988 Bush/Dukakis presidential campaign?) Mark is going to kick off this effort with a petition to the government that will be available on the Armed American Radio website, and we'll see where it can go from there.

Why The Junkyard Dog?

Sooner or later, almost everyone is faced with some kind of bad situation. I’m talking about things like criminal attacks, natural disasters, car accidents…you name it and someone has experienced it. Some people have died or been severely injured, while others have survived. More than a quarter of a century ago, I began asking myself why some people survive events that others don’t; why some people resign themselves to becoming victims of some violent act of man or nature while others fight back and win.

I realized that few people, if any, have all the answers and are able to survive every situation; but I also realized that there are some common rules or procedures that can increase the average person’s chances of surviving most things, most of the time. That seems like a big step forward in surviving our own lives for as long as possible. Because that is what we want to do; survive the events of our own life. We all die eventually, but what I want to explore here is how we might put off that final outcome for as long as possible, and give ourselves the chance to live our lives to the fullest extent.

This blog is about finding ways to prepare and plan for, and hopefully avoid the kind of bad things that happen to people.

This blog is called The Junkyard Dog because it is a metaphor for the mindset that I believe anyone can learn in order to better protect themselves and their loved ones from the deadly threats that people have to face.

Imagine an actual junkyard. It is an area where things that are of value to the owner and the customers are stored. A high wire fence with a gate surrounds the junkyard to define the boundaries and to protect the things inside. A junkyard dog guards the junkyard when it is closed. The junkyard dog is alert and watches people who pass by the junkyard without coming inside, but he doesn’t take action against them because he doesn’t have to. They are outside his boundary. But if they attempt to climb the fence, he acts. He barks and growls and persuades them to go away. If they persist in climbing over the fence into his junkyard he will bite them. If they escape back over the fence, he won’t chase them down the street because he has already done his job, and they are no longer in his space. The junkyard dog understands that the fence is a boundary and as long as people are on their side of the fence when they aren’t supposed to be in his junkyard, he is happy.

A Junkyard Dog has three rules:

1. The junkyard dog is vigilant.

2. The junkyard dog will deal with any threat in the junkyard.

3. The junkyard dog will not pursue the threat outside of the junkyard.

We can take this illustration and apply it to our own security. A person who lives near a river that bursts its banks from time to time, flooding the surrounding area, can decide that if the river reaches a certain height, they will head to higher ground. They don’t have to wait until the river floods before they decide to take action. They know that when that boundary (the river reaches flood level) is crossed it’s time to leave.

This is what being a Junkyard Dog is all about: Being aware of our surroundings and knowing what to do when someone or something crosses a boundary that the junkyard dog has defined. A Junkyard Dog is Prepared, Aware, and Decisive.

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