"...the most important skill/knowledge to have is common sense and the ability to recognize when a situation is beyond one?s capabilities and equipment."

That is really the crux of the survival problem, isn't it?

Yet, what Vince says is true. IMHO, the main issue of our government is control of the people. Everything else is way down in second place. Generation after generation, the people DO get trained to let others do their thinking for them. And then, when some kind of "negative situation" develops, everyone wonders why the people are so stupid, yet we still have pompous LEOs (etc) telling people what they can and can't do, no matter what the situation. I am reminded of a fireman who grabbed a woman who was preparing to leave the path of a firestorm (Oakland? Malibu?) and literally carried her off when she opened her front door. The woman fortunately went ballistic and the fireman had to let go. She WAS evacuating, but she was determined to take her blind husband with her. The fireman never bothered to ask if there were other people in the house.

The face of a situation often isn't a true representation of the situation itself.

Now, let's move on to Vigilante Justice.... <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Sue