The avoidance of a dump truck by the driver of a Volkswagon GTI is also reasonable based on a basic understanding of how mass, velocity and momentum work.
I call such understanding the “Do Not Get Squashed Like a Bug” mindset.
Star Wars accidentally changed my life. These days, when something like this happens, I think “… let the Wookie win.” The circumstances of that particular scene comfort me. I started before I started carrying, and it’s still the way I deal with it.
May 31st, 2012 at 10:06 am
Enter the obligatory “an armed society is a polite society.”
May 31st, 2012 at 10:57 am
Avoidance certainly is the #1 method of self defense in my mind.
May 31st, 2012 at 11:20 am
The avoidance of a dump truck by the driver of a Volkswagon GTI is also reasonable based on a basic understanding of how mass, velocity and momentum work.
I call such understanding the “Do Not Get Squashed Like a Bug” mindset.
Yes, I used to drive a VW Bug, why do you ask?
May 31st, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Star Wars accidentally changed my life. These days, when something like this happens, I think “… let the Wookie win.” The circumstances of that particular scene comfort me. I started before I started carrying, and it’s still the way I deal with it.
May 31st, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Yep. Been there, done that. http://flat5.net/2011/05/enablement/
May 31st, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Apparently the man in the article mentioned in the post above this one….did NOT ascribe to this philosophy.
May 31st, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Good stuff.