Mugged by reality

A simple phrase that has made the rounds in the culture.  It was probably first used in reference to liberals who were actually mugged and decided that having a gun wasn't such a bad thing after all.

I googled that phrase and only came up with a lot of links that weren't very useful.  But, I'll use couple anyway.  Some of those fall into the genre of Dirty Harry.  Literally, they fall into the Dirty Harry mold.  But what is that?  That a single guy with a gun can take a gang of bad guys, shoot them all down except one, who takes a hostage.  To which, Dirty Harry says "go ahead, make my day".  He makes the bad guy back down.  What a guy!  What a load of bull.

Another was the Charles Bronson film in which he plays the husband and father of a couple women who were killed in New York, which had a strong tendency to let the police do the policing, but regularly failed.  He became the Vigilante, who got his revenge and control over his life.  The point is that the films are made as a kind of "jerk-off" fantasy for gun-nuts.  I suppose that's the point of the films, to discredit self-defense.

I could give a personal example of how that all could go; but that story is rather complex. Besides, you wouldn't believe it, and I don't want to tell it.  Not to mention, in my telling it, would serve no purpose.  But the point is that having a gun may definitely save your life.  The bad guys will definitely back off if they think that you can and will fight.  I KNOW.

A better example might have been the film, The Godfather.  Michael Corleone knows that his father's enemies are going to go to the hospital and finish him off.  He stages a bit of deception, in which fools the gang into thinking he and his companion were armed and willing to fight in order to protect him.  They drive off and bring in the crooked police Captain in order to get rid of him so that they can do their evil deed.





Enzo is scared shitless.  Yep, very true.  But he did his job and his duty.  That's all that's needed sometimes.