Legally licensed concealed carry does not make you law enforcement or grant you authority to act as one.
You are not a sheriff, deputy, or officer of the law, and you are not responsible for enforcing rules, intervening in public conflicts, or acting as “civilian resistance.” Training for legally licensed concealed carry is explicit about this boundary.
Your responsibility as a concealed carrier is modest and disciplined. Avoid danger when possible. Do not provoke, encourage, or exacerbate situations. If you can disengage, you disengage. If you can cross the street, take another route, or leave early, you do. Those choices aren’t weakness—they’re exactly what responsible carry training teaches.
The “sheepdog” idea is often misunderstood. In a legally licensed concealed carry context, it does not mean seeking threats, inserting yourself into chaos, or acting as informal enforcement. It means protecting yourself and those immediately under your care when there is no safe alternative and a clear, imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm—and nothing more.
Carrying a firearm comes with restraint, not authority. Deadly force is a last resort, not a strategy, and every decision leading up to it will be scrutinized later. Legally licensed concealed carry exists for personal self-defense—not intervention, not enforcement, not heroics. The real responsibility is judgment, humility, and knowing when to walk away.
Legally licensed concealed carry isn’t about being a sheriff, deputy, or tough guy. You’re not law enforcement or civilian resistance. Your responsibility is modest: avoid danger, de-escalate, disengage, and leave when you can. Carrying is for last-resort self-defense—not enforcement.
Session Twenty-Six: The Wachter House Raid, the Parlor Full of Devils, and the Level-Up We Didn’t Earn chrisabraham.substack.com/p/session…
Fascinating insight from a trained American counterinsurgent.
What A Green Beret Sees That Others Don’t In The Minnesota Protests youtube.com/watch
This is an extremely LOW NUMBER, for perspective. Considering the scope of the mission.
Report shows more than 170 US citizens were detained by immigration officials
A very sober take from a concealed carry (CCW) Minnesota lawyer
The Pretti Case Exposes a Dangerous Lie youtube.com/watch
This is a very good one. Are you a fan of Bridget Phetasy yet?
Is Minnesota Ground Zero for Civil War 2.0? - Dumpster Fire youtube.com/watch
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Interview with Senior Communications Specialist Melanie Cherry by Mike Falkow of Meritus Media www.youtube.com/watch
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake. Amen.
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Feds Don't Protect or Serve
I think people conflate three different things: local cops, federal agents, and the TV version of “the police” where everyone’s a friendly public servant with infinite patience and a heart of gold.
“Protect and serve” isn’t a universal promise law enforcement makes to you. It’s an LAPD-origin motto that got adopted as a slogan because it sounds comforting on a cruiser door and in a script. Federal officers (DHS, ICE, FBI, etc.) don’t “pledge protect and serve” like they’re your neighborhood guardians. Their binding commitment is the federal oath: support and defend the Constitution and faithfully discharge their duties. That’s not marketing, that’s the actual job description.
So when someone says “law enforcement’s social contract can’t be malleable,” I agree on the substance but not the framing. The binding part isn’t a vibes-based contract, it’s the real one: statutes, constitutional limits, agency policy (including use-of-force rules), supervision, and consequences when those are violated. That’s what’s supposed to restrain state power.
And the same is true on the civilian side: you have rights, but you don’t have a free license to escalate into force, obstruction, or street violence and then act shocked when the situation gets ugly. Once either side treats rules as optional, you don’t get “justice,” you get a loop: fear, anger, escalation, injuries, riots, then everyone digs in harder.
Also: “cops are your friends” is mostly a TV hallucination. Some are decent, some are not, and institutions can be brutal even when individuals mean well. If you want “binding,” demand law, clarity, and accountability, not slogans.
I am watching RT live on Rumble. Always fascinating to see their reporting. I highly recommend watching pure video feeds from the RT and Al Jazeera. It’s amazing to see how they report Good and Pretti. rumble.com/v35waq4-r…
Across the developed world—Western Europe, Japan, Australia—protest clashes with police still cause serious harm. A BMJ review of riot-control weapons found ~3% of documented cases ended in death and ~15% in permanent injury. U.S. protest-related gun deaths remain rarer, making each case an outlier.
Globally, protest clashes with armed police are far deadlier: a BMJ review found ~3% of documented crowd-control cases ended in death and ~15% in permanent injury. In the U.S., protest-related firearm deaths are rare by comparison—making each incident an outlier, not a baseline.
To many Americans, the “villain” in Minneapolis isn’t obvious. Some see federal agents as restrained professionals under constant verbal and physical pressure. Others see protesters as heroes blocking harm. From the outside, hero and villain flip by viewpoint and death follows the clash.
Alex Pretti’s killing creates a paradox: if lawful carry is treated as lethal provocation, courts may strengthen carry rights. At the same time, fear may push even anti-2A activists toward concealed carry for self-protection—quietly normalizing CCW while undermining gun restrictions.
8 years ago and never a truer satire—especially in 2026
Hot Robot 3: Journey to Boob Mountain youtube.com/watch
Law enforcement’s force ladder runs from presence and commands to hands-on control, less-lethal tools, then lethal force. The slippery slope is speed: under fog-of-war stress, misreads, crowd chaos, or sudden weapons can collapse multiple steps into seconds.