Who has the best hand?

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8. I appreciate your personal control...

"But there are individuals... they are looking for trouble. "

That description only covers those who would be out and out trouble makers and easily detected. The real problem are the majority of undetectable who are the carry would-bes and the inexperienced class graduates. There are not that many left in society that have the ability to know what they would do in a dangerous situation. They can mimic the words and ideas but after a time, things change. The weapon is owned by them and becomes more casual and personal as time goes on. How many people in 2014 do you think have the focus to retain a code of conduct rigorous enough to follow through with self-control after a year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Our society does not hold that kind of focus and devotion as an asset. Our society is on the edge of the trigger in everything in daily life from having a job to getting groceries, to driving the kids to practice, to entertainment, to relationships, to fundamentalism... Society is on the trigger's edge in everything they do and we are taught every day to be in the "on the edge" condition.

Self awareness is not a revered attribute in this century. On the contrary, it's an attribute to be discarded for the blitz of the moment. In that lie the foundations of disaster.