No one is coming to help.
EVERYTHING is your RESPONSIBILITY.
Save who needs to be saved.
Kill who needs to be killed.
Never stop working.
Matt Graham

When you find yourself is a serious, life-or-death situation, you can’t afford to depend on someone else to save you or your family. No one is coming to help until after the predator has done most of his damage. Saving yourself, your loved-ones, and those in need, falls on YOU, and you only. It is all YOUR responsibility.

At that time, you need to be prepared. You need to be ready to act. Standing around like a deer in the headlights will only put you and your family at risk. Turning and running with the crowd, only makes you one of the targets. You have to fight back; you have to take control of the situations and make sure your loved-ones are safe.

As Matt Graham stated, “Save who needs to be saved. Kill who needs to be killed.” But, in order to do this, you must be prepared long before you find yourself in this situation. THIS is what you train for. What good is your martial arts training if it doesn’t give you the tools to save your life, or the life of your loved-ones, when your back is against the wall?

If you are training in sports martial arts, don’t make the mistake of thinking that you are ready to take on such a threat – YOU’RE NOT! You are no more ready to handle a deadly predator than a soccer player or jogger.

In order to handle a situation like this, you must prepare for a situation like this. You must train to take down and stop a dangerous predator, not to score points and scream like a banshee. If you want to be able to protect yourself, you had better get serious about your martial arts training, the correct KIND of martial arts training!

All martial arts training is not equal. There are some instructors who have been there and done that, and then there are others who read about maybe being there and fantasized about doing that some day. You want an instructor who KNOWS, not an instructor who THINKS HE KNOWS.

Either way, when the shit hits the fan, you are on your own. Everyone will be looking out for number one. No one is coming to save you. Your safety and the safety of your loved-ones, will be YOUR responsibility. Make sure you are ready, willing, and able to handle it.
The police are very rarely there to STOP a violent crime; they get there to take a report and try to find the wrong doer. That does you no good after your wife, son, daughter, or even yourself, has been killed by a psychotic predator. I cannot stress this point enough – your survival is your responsibility. You had better be ready!

Wise martial artists understand this. They don’t live in a fantasy world. They understand that there are really bad people in this world. They understand what the police can and cannot do. And, wise martial artists understand that martial arts are more than a fun hobby or sport; true martial arts are about survival.

This is why you must develop your warrior spirit. You must train to make your martial arts skills deadly serious. You must be ready to do whatever needs to be done to save your life or the life of your loved-ones. This is the way of the warrior. All else is the way of the average man or woman. Choose to be a warrior, not a statistic.

SIDE NOTE: Facebook in their infinite intelligence, or more accurately, their lack of intelligence, blocked my account for posting this short article on personal responsibility. It offended their delicate, Left Wing, pussified sensibilities. It is time for every American who believes in freedom of speech to start standing up against these Left Wing morons and their cancel culture and stop allowing them to censor Americans! Start standing up for your rights as Americans! It is time to STOP allowing these fringe lunatics to control what we say or do in our country. STAND FOR FREEDOM OR FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO LIVE!

Bohdi Sanders
Author of 
MODERN BUSHIDO