The Riot Survival Guide

Surviving Riots

Prior to any national unrest it’s generally well advised to buy some short-term stock in gun and ammo companies. Good luck to the rest of your portfolio, though.

Oh, and it’s also advised to get the hell out of major cities.

Just recently we discovered yet another example of failing to comprehend riot strategies for the average individual:

Dallas rioters savagely beat man to a pulp after he confronts them with a SWORD (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
As looting and mayhem gripped the streets of Dallas, Texas, a mob descended on a man allegedly defending his neighborhood with a long blade. Punched, kicked and pelted with rocks, the man was left mangled and bloody.
Lawlessness continued to reign supreme in Dallas on Saturday night, five days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests and riots. Following an afternoon of mostly peaceful protests, nightfall saw a spree of vandalism and looting in downtown Dallas.
In one shocking and graphic video captured by Blaze TV’s Elijah Schaffer, a man was set upon by a mob, after allegedly rushing rioters with a large machete or sword. He was quickly surrounded and beaten with rocks, fists, boots, and a skateboard.
Little is known about what set off the incident, but Schaffer claimed that the man “attempted to defend a shop” from the mob, who responded by attacking him. Another angle shows the mob pelting him with rocks before he made an ill-fated attempt to rush the crowd.
As he lay motionless on the ground, with blood dripping from his face, the man was tended to by a group of “volunteer medics,” and was later taken to hospital. Dallas Police told local media that he was in a stable condition. They added that he had brandished the weapon to “allegedly protect his neighborhood from protesters.” Schaffer said that some rioters attempted to revive the man after he had been beaten to the ground, while others carried on looting around his motionless body.
A man called C.A. Shoultz came forward on Twitter on Sunday morning, saying he was the one being beaten in the video and adding that he was “quite alive, if a bit worse for wear.” Shoultz explained that he doesn’t have a gun and “didn’t expect them to rush me more than a dozen at once, or start throwing rocks at me first,” while admitting it was not the best idea to rush a rioting mob with a machete.

Which is nothing new. You can find plenty of similar past incidents through a simple search.

One that comes to mind is Reginald Denny:

The attack on Reginald Denny was a hate crime that occurred during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, when Denny, a white construction truck driver, was beaten nearly to death by a group of black men who came to be known as the “L.A. Four”. The attack was captured on video by a news helicopter, and broadcast live on US national television.
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Reginald Oliver Denny, born 22 January 1956 (age 64), was a 36-year-old construction dump truck driver on the first day of the rioting. He was attacked by several men, pulled from his International Road Tractor and brutally beaten, sustaining serious head trauma and other injuries. Denny’s ability to speak and drive were affected by the attack, and he had to undergo years of rehabilitative therapy.

It’s not super complicated:

Don’t be in a riot.
Repeat: Don’t be in a riot.
Situational awareness. Distance yourself when tensions increase.
Blend in and move out when the opportunity is present.
Use range. Rooftop Koreans won while our machete-wielder got decimated. The lesson is don’t get up close.
Keep moving. Don’t bunker down. Don’t stop your vehicle.
Retreat when outnumbered.

Remember that mob mentality is strong. They are already mad, violent, and willing to do whatever is necessary to “correct” whatever the mob feels is injustice. They have little issue annihilating you in the process.

You and your kin are likely to be outnumbered. Don’t stop, keep moving, fight back when provoked but do so from range.

We live in the US. There is no reason for you to not have a gun. Use it.

And obviously, don’t bring a machete to a mob fight.

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It was heartbreaking to see Steve Baca in Albuquerque, and Kyle Rittenhouse in Minnesota, wander into a mob, get attacked and have to shoot some of their attackers in self-defense.

The Left now controls the legal system, and both of them will probably not fare well in court, even though in both cases it was pure self-defense. And of course the Right has left them to twist in the wind — as it has the 440 people arrested for the Capitol incursion. (If they had been on the Left, there would be demonstrations for them every week, letters to the editor, support for them via letters if they were incarcerated. The Left knows how to do these things.)

So your advice is good, but … sometimes it’s right to fight back. The problem with the Right is that many of its most conscious and militant members think that the way to do that is to bring your AR15 to the riot, as Kyle Rittenhouse did. A bad move. It’s worse than useless … at the moment.

Right now, the Left is using sub-lethal warfare: riots, but not guns or bombs. Rocks, skateboards, lasers, bear spray. Guns and bombs will come later.

We have to organize, and learn to use sub-lethal methods of warfare ourselves. Since we are usually playing defense, that means wearing the right gear, carrying protest placards that can douible as shields, and above all, being organized. We can learn from the French, with their service d’ordre marshalls who steward their demonstrations.

You urge people to move to the countryside and grow their own food, weave their own cloth, smelt their own iron and forge their own steel … a few will, but most won’t. The division of labor has been the key to human progress and people will not give it up. Given what’s coming in America, they should at least move to the ‘Redoubt states’ … but they won’t … until the last minute, when Yugoslav-style forced population transfers come to America.

What is realistic right now is to organize at the neighborhood level. A good book for tips on how to do this is the Civil Defense Manual (two volumes), from CivilDefenseManual.com. An organization which is trying to organize at the local level is the Civilian Defense Force, at CivilianDefenseForce.org.

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Doug
July 7, 2021 / 5:10 pm Reply
It was heartbreaking to see Steve Baca in Albuquerque, and Kyle Rittenhouse in Minnesota, wander into a mob, get attacked and have to shoot some of their attackers in self-defense.
The Left now controls the legal system, and both of them will probably not fare well in court, even though in both cases it was pure self-defense. And of course the Right has left them to twist in the wind — as it has the 440 people arrested for the Capitol incursion. (If they had been on the Left, there would be demonstrations for them every week, letters to the editor, support for them via letters if they were incarcerated. The Left knows how to do these things.)
So your advice is good, but … sometimes it’s right to fight back. The problem with the Right is that many of its most conscious and militant members think that the way to do that is to bring your AR15 to the riot, as Kyle Rittenhouse did. A bad move. It’s worse than useless … at the moment.
Right now, the Left is using sub-lethal warfare: riots, but not guns or bombs. Rocks, skateboards, lasers, bear spray. Guns and bombs will come later.
We have to organize, and learn to use sub-lethal methods of warfare ourselves. Since we are usually playing defense, that means wearing the right gear, carrying protest placards that can douible as shields, and above all, being organized. We can learn from the French, with their service d’ordre marshalls who steward their demonstrations.
You urge people to move to the countryside and grow their own food, weave their own cloth, smelt their own iron and forge their own steel … a few will, but most won’t. The division of labor has been the key to human progress and people will not give it up. Given what’s coming in America, they should at least move to the ‘Redoubt states’ … but they won’t … until the last minute, when Yugoslav-style forced population transfers come to America.
What is realistic right now is to organize at the neighborhood level. A good book for tips on how to do this is the Civil Defense Manual (two volumes), from CivilDefenseManual.com. An organization which is trying to organize at the local level is the Civilian Defense Force, at CivilianDefenseForce.org.