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Are You a Sheep, Wolf or Sheep Dog?

by Brian Copeland

As I find myself writing this on the anniversary of the bombing of the World Trade Center buildings, I can't help but to be reminded that there are evil people out there who do truly want to do harm to us.

Using the analogy of wolves and sheep almost isn't fair to a wolf. After all, wolves kill their prey in order to eat, it is the natural order of things. Evil people prey on others in order to satisfy some sick instability/insecurity in their own personalities.

Some will use unthinkable acts of terrorism and others closer to home may simply be on a joy ride looking for someone to beat up, rape, mug or worse.

Proof that evil exists

While I don't recommend people walk around in a state of constant fear and readiness, I can't highly enough recommend that everyone ensures that they are prepared for violence.

Reflecting back on the 3 jets that were used as weapons against the citizens of the United States and many other nations who were our guests, I can't help but to think of what would I do if I were on one of those planes?

If I had my best guess I am sure that if you gave the victims of those terrorists a second chance, they would have fought. After all, the first two planes probably didn't know they were going to their impending doom. They probably thought that if they just did what the terrorists said that no one would be harmed (aside from the flight crew who were viciously murdered).

Yet, the 3rd jet was able to ascertain their fate after hearing what happened on the 1st two flights; they took action and attacked the terrorists and killed them. With the pilots dead and the terrorists dead, there was no one left to fly the plane. They sacrificed their lives to save many. They are heroes! They didn't ask or want to be heroes, they were thrust into it.

For many of my American readers this may be a rough walk down memory lane.
For my international readers, if your nation has never experienced an attack of this nature count yourselves lucky, if it has then you have my sincerest sympathies.

If you are fortunate you will never be thrust into such a situation; whether that situation is a terrorist attack or a rapist lurking in a dark parking lot.

But if you are, what would you do?

Would you know what to do?

At risk of sounding sacrilegious; I wonder what would have happened if any of the flight attendants, passengers or pilots knew how to defang the snake, a super effective method for using a weapon of opportunity (such as a pencil or pen) against a weapon wielding attacker. We can only speculate.

I can tell you that knowing this strategy of survival will make you walk with far more security, knowing that you can, if you choose, take out a human being with deadly quickness.

Evil men and women do not know these techniques, but they aren't afraid to use violence, it is their greatest tool. In fact, they hope you cower in fear. What they don't want you to know is that they don't want you to fight back because they usually aren't prepared for how to deal with violence being used against themselves.

As good men and women we must learn to cheat and use anything and everything in our power to ensure that we survive and evil is stopped!

That is what I teach, and now I think you know why!


There are three types of people in this life:
#1. Sheep
#2. Wolves
#3. Sheep dogs

Which do you want to be?

I choose to be the sheep dog.

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