The Zombieslayer

I used to say the only reason for a handgun is to get you back to your long gun. I couldn’t be more wrong.

Buy handguns. You need them. I’ll explain…

As we speak, China is panicking. They should be. You should have heard their diplomats speak. They’re seriously worried that we’ll default on our loans.

As much as everyone seems to love Barack Obama, this stimulus isn’t going to work. Keynes didn’t work before and it’s not going to work this time. The thing that would get us out of our recession would be a technical innovation that creates JOBS. As I’ve been warning about since I started blogging in ‘05, we’ve managed to outsource more jobs than we created and it’s come back to bite us in the ass, and now we owe something like a trillion to China and they’re genuinely worried we may default on our loans.

We can always print more money, but as you know (assuming you understand economics), printing too much money causes inflation and we may end up with hyperinflation, something that has happened this decade in Argentina and of course, the most famous case was the Weimar Republic in Germany before Hitler came into power.

Can’t happen here? I sincerely hope so. If so, my Savings accounts and my 401k become garbage. So do yours.

What does this have to do with handguns?

Everything. Crime will go through the roof. Robbery, rape, and kidnapping stats will look like errors. As bad as that sounds, I live in a border state where we’ve already had sociopathic gang bangers kidnapping and decapitating people. What they do is they kidnap several of your family members, then decapitate one just to show they’re serious. They’ve found that they’re more likely to get their ransoms when they brutally murder one of your family members so you fear they’ll do it to the others. Very effective.

I’m a Historian. I know my shit. No, history doesn’t repeat itself but it follows trends. I did some research and found that the most important way to defend yourself is with handguns. Even with hyperinflation, you still can not walk down the street with a long gun.

Now, handguns are no guarantee that you won’t be kidnapped, robbed, raped (this includes you men out there, no matter how tough you think you are, you’re not going to physically overpower four men), or tortured and decapitated. But they’ll greatly improve your odds. Think in terms of having a choice of two cars - one with a seat belt and an airbag and the other with neither. The seat belt and the airbag greatly increase your chance of survival, but don’t guarantee it. Simply said, play the odds.

So yes, do your own research. Find out about what works and what doesn’t when crime goes through the roof. You will most likely come to the same conclusion - having a handgun on you at all times greatly increases your chance that you will come home to your family in one piece, so you can continue to put food on the table. For the home, you should have a shotgun.

Under hyperinflation, you will still work. You will still have to commute. It’s just, the guy who used to be a stock broker, you know, the guy with the 90k car but nothing in his fridge, is now robbing people to feed his family. Criminals know that they’re better off dealing with unarmed people. No matter what the gun control laws are, criminals will be carrying. You better be too. You want to increase your chance of survival. When they see someone who can shoot BACK, they generally leave and find someone else. Don’t take my word for it, do your own research.

Now, like I said, I hope America doesn’t experience hyperinflation. I have a lot to lose. But remember the Boy Scout motto - be prepared. Things aren’t looking good and hyperinflation can happen here.

If you’re interested, I can find an article from someone who lived through the Argentina mess. It’s a very long read, his English is horrible, but it might just save your life if our economy falls apart. Let me know and I’ll try to find it.