Not really impressive, but this is Sweden, and it is just the beginning:
Despite Swedes’ reputation as a peaceful and mild-mannered people, confiscations of batons at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport have exploded in 2016, Swedish state broadcaster SVT revealed. According to Swedish customs authorities, batons are being illegally ordered abroad by Swedish citizens for self-defense.Swedish authorities were obviously taken aback by the findings and failed to produce a reasonable explanation. We honestly do not know why people have started to smuggle more batons,” Mats Pettersson argued. “Most people we talked to said they need batons to protect themselves and don’t intend to use them for criminal activities,” Mats Pettersson continued.
This will be a huge industry when the Apocalypse hits, just as will be light armored delivery with armed security. Getting both yourself and goods from point A to point B will be a high priority when the savages are about and danger threatens.
I saw where in South Africa, guys would run flexible copper piping from a propane cylinder to the periphery of their car, so with the flip of a WOG valve attached to a little barbecue sparker, they could have six foot propane-fueled flames blowing up all around the car. Car-jackers might shoot if you pulled a gun, but suddenly finding themselves engulfed “en fuego” would hit the reset button and get them running.
I’m more of a Tesla Coil, mounted in the back of a pickup and running off a generator, type of guy.
As a creative type, I actually look forward to the day we can engage in creative preparations, and maybe even have the chance to test out the effectiveness of our devices in the real world.
Fire and steel are more effective deterrents than guns and electricity. They trigger the amgydala on a more fundamental level. I’ve seen it while living in the hood. A gangsta that ain’t fraid a no gun finds someplace else to be when you pull a sword on his ass. The sound of a racking shotgun is scary, but not as scary as the SHKINK of an ASP baton being flicked open. Instant compliance with the ASP. (And cops know that the crooks don’t carry them, so they don’t set off the COP amygdalas as strongly. They associate them with their in group.)
[…] Swedes Going K And Buying Up Weapons […]
Are you kidding me! Swedes can’t even carry STICKS for self defense? Will it be illegal to pick up a rock? It’s like the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror where Homer buys a magical monkey paw in Morroco and Lisa wishes for world peace. While all countries declare peace and destroy their weapons, the aliens Kang and Kodos realize the human race is “ripe for the plucking” and, armed only with a slingshot and a club, enslave the Earth. Eventually Ned’s Flanders gets a wish to “Get rid of those awful aliens,” which is accomplished when Moe chases after Kodos with a board with a nail sticking out of it, then brings the aliens back to the flying saucer. Kodos laments their failed invasion, but Kang assures him that humanity is doomed: they will end up in an arms race creating increasingly bigger boards and bigger nails, which will ultimately “cause the human race to create a board with a nail in it so big to doom mankind.”
While I love your Tesla coil idea, I’m unsure if it would work. I think those things need to be earthed. But I could be wrong.
Every problem is just a solution to be found!
I’m not surprised we’re seeing what we’re seeing. Swedish society has been pathologically altruistic for sometime now. Many of the first refugees welcomed into western Europe were defectors and refugees from the soviet union after all. Even the kids they brought with them are rabidly K-inclined. And they never did find out what the story was behind the death of Alexander Bengtsson. Given how things are developing in Swedish cities with the gang war, I suspect he had criminal ties that concluded he was a liability to their operations and they eliminated him before he could further compromise them to Swedish law enforcement as they began focusing on him more intensely.
I was going to comment earlier, that I’ve been binge-watching Gotham, wondering how far it might parallel current events, how weird things could possibly get when people’s trust in law and order starts to completely break down. But I refrained, thinking it was just a little too silly to merit serious discussion.
Maybe I was mistaken.
Tell the Swedes about walking sticks. They’re simply medical devices for the differently-abled.