Situational Awareness
Reviewing the five elements of self-defense, we know that the threat needs to be reasonable and imminent.
In France, the second culprit behind an ISIS-linked attack on a church that left a priest dead... was a teenager reportedly identified by security services as a potential security threat.
19-year-old Abdel-Malik Petitjean, was identified following DNA testing.
Petitjean and accomplice Adel Kermiche, also 19, targeted the church north of Paris during a morning Mass.
A police source told Reuters that security services had opened a special file on Petitjean on June 29th amid suspicions he had been radicalized.
The government has said there are about ten-thousand-five-hundred people with so-called "S files" related to potential jihadist activities in France.
The accomplice, Kermiche, was not only known to security services but was also ordered to wear an electronic bracelet.
So, even when these alluded renegade's are identified and electronically tracked, they can still make their way into a church and slit the preacher's throat.....
FBI Director James Comey has a [in more ways than one] disturbing assessment, warning that gains on battlefield against ISIS could cause terror cells to metastasize across the globe from Syria.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton weighs in...
When we have a situational stew like the one that we are in right now, including an imminent random threat from foreign combative's on our streets, ineffective leadership at the national level, domestic incomprehension, intrusion from 'industrial' grievance groups like the SPLC, and a potent media catalyst — it's time to appreciate the Second Amendment, and recall giving some serious thought to the old Scout Motto!.
And remember, the "government" has no legal burden to provide individual citizen's with personal protection.
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