Sucker Punch: America's Meltdown Tips and Tricks to Survive in an Increasingly Lawless Society

By DAVU

Sucker Punch: America's Meltdown is a comprehensive survival guide for individuals who don't want to be caught off guard by emergency situations or semi-natural disasters.  You don't have to become the target of random criminal activity, or the victim of the mentally unstable striking out without reason or provocation. Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones with no military or martial arts training. The key to survival is being proactive, not reactive. I'll show you how. Inside this book, you'll discover strategies and techniques that will enable you to not only survive emergency situations in densly populated areas, but also thrive while others without this knowledge often flounder and sometimes perish. You'll find instructions, tips, and tricks you can use to maintain a high level of safety and security for yourself, family and friends in the increasingly lawless environments we find ourselves in today.

Sucker Punch: America's Meltdown uses simple language and common sense methods to help you identify dangerous situations and individuals before the trouble starts giving you the time and opportunity to escape. It offers solutions to help you prepare for shortages of food and water which are compounded dramatically when living in close quarters with large groups of people. It will change the way you see the world around you, and your place in it.

Davu

• Language: English
• Publisher: DAVU
• Release date: Apr 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224420766

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Sucker Punch:

America’s Meltdown

Tips and Tricks to Survive in an Increasingly

Lawless Society

by Davu

Published by Davu, 2024.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my wife, whose help and support enabled me to create this vade mecum, and to the saints at the Church of God, whose prayers, support, and encouragement led me to and sustained me in this endeavor.

To Almighty God be everlasting glory. Amen

Edited by Davu

Copyright © 2024 Davu

All rights reserved.

Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.

Important Publishers Note

This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. If legal advice or any type of assistance is needed, please seek the services of a competent professional. This book is for informational purposes only. All technical information, instruction, and advice reflect the beliefs of Davu and are intended as information only. This book is not intended to serve as a replacement for professional instruction. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Davu and Lulu Press Inc. from any and all claims and damages as a result of reading this book, which is for informational purposes only.

Introduction

If you’re waiting for the guy wearing a cape to save you from the impending collapse of whatever metropolis you call home, you can tell Lois to quit calling for him, he’s not coming.

This time, we are going to have to save ourselves. And I want to share with you exactly what I’m doing to make that happen. So who am I? Well, if I had a military call sign like most of the guys who author survival books, it wouldn’t be Reaper 1, Black Hawk 505, or Death Dealer. It would be 2 Tired 2 Tango.

10 short years ago, neither you nor I needed spec ops combat training just to ride the subway, get on the bus, walk our children to school, or make a trip to the grocery store. But in the bizzarro world we live in today, that’s exactly where we are. Everything is upside-down, inside-out, and backwards.

In reality, I’m just like you. That is, if you are a law-abiding, reasonably sane individual with a sense of morality, a basic concern for your fellow citizens, and the desire to live a quiet and peaceful life.

I’m fed up with the threat of being the next victim of some untreated sociopath who had one bad day too many. Couple that with living in a densely populated area, and the potential for victimization is always around the  corner.

Now, whether we are targeted for victimization or not on any given day depends mainly on how loudly you ping what I call the cradar (crazy people’s radar) of the hundreds of criminals and lunatics you and I unknowingly cross paths with every time we venture out into the public sphere.

For those that may not know, a ping is an infrasonic or ultrasonic sound wave created by sonar in echolocation. The sonar emits a soundwave or ping, it strikes an object and bounces back to the sonar. This gives the operator the distance from the object and helps to identify it as well. For our purposes, pinging their cradar simply means drawing their attention.

Now, I have nothing against people with mental challenges or personality disorders. Like you, I have one or two in my family that I know of, and I love them dearly. However, them I know, it is the other ones I am addressing here. That unknown quantity, the Jack in the Box, if you will. I’ll refer to them as just Jack going forward. You know the ones I am talking about. The individuals left undiagnosed,  untreated, and unrestrained, free to roam about and terrorize the general population unabated. Free to wreak havoc at a moment’s notice. They strike without warning, without reason, and often without provocation.

Full disclosure, I am not an ex-Seal, Green Beret, Army Ranger, Delta Force, or Air Borne. I have never parachuted behind enemy lines and rescued hostages, taken out a terrorist target, or even considered trying any such heroic acts.

And I‘m ok with that, because chances are, if you are reading this book, then neither have you and you should be ok with it too. Because having done any of those things should not be a prerequisite for being secure in our persons and property.

Nevertheless, you and I do have something in common with those guys. We all have the same penchant for self-preservation. In short, we want to remain amongst the living as much as they do.

Naturally speaking however, they are better equipped than us to do so. That was until now. Because my goal is to equip you with the tools and knowledge to make you safer from day to day in a society gone mad. At the end of this, you still won’t be a super soldier, but you’ll be far from a hapless victim. And sometimes that small edge is all you need.

A lot of what soldiers and para-military types teach in similar texts is based on their military training and experiences in the field. That gives them a particular perspective that civilians don’t have. A trained fighter will see certain situations such as a physical confrontation, much differently than someone who has never thrown a punch. A combat veteran may encounter an attack by multiply assailants, however his skillset makes it well within his wheelhouse to repel his attackers with prejudice. This guide is not for people with that type of background and ability. They do not need my help.

So by now you may be asking yourself, what makes this guy think he can teach me anything if he’s not formerly trained himself? Well I’ll tell you why I believe we can learn something from just about everyone we meet, even a Jack. I’ve spent a number of years doing handyman work as sort of a hobby. And I’ve replaced quite a few doorknobs for family and friends in my time. I’ve also ruined quite a few screws in the process trying to screw them in, because I always had to angle the screwdriver around the doorknob. I thought it was a stupid design flaw.

That was until one day I saw a guy reach down and depress the little silver tab at the bottom of the knob, and off it popped leaving only the collar and a clear path to the screws beneath. Of course I slapped my forehead  in complete astonishment. Who knew? I suspect you’ll experience quite a few of those moments yourself as you go through this book.

It only seems like commonsense once someone has pointed out to you what probably should have been obvious from the start.

Taken in that light, this is a comprehensive guide for those who may have never fired a gun in their lives, swung a stick outside of a sporting event, or wielded any blade more lethal than a restaurant steak knife, you know the one with the rounded tip. By the way, have you considered that maybe they’re rounded just in case a Jack happens to be seated at the next table and attacks the waiter because there are spiders in his soup. He may suffer some cuts, but he probably won’t get stabbed. That little edge could mean the difference between life and death.

If you’re playing poker, having three Jacks is great, but late at night walking on a dark deserted street, three of these Jacks is not a winning hand. Now I don’t know about you, but chances are I would not fare well in hand-to-hand combat in that scenario. So then you might ask, what would I do when faced with that situation?

My answer would be nothing, because I don’t walk on dark deserted streets in the middle of the night, and neither should you any longer. In fact, I’m rarely even out at night, unless I’m in a group or headed to, or from a certain destination. And personally, I’m more concerned with the daywalkers. And that is really the essence of this book. Learning and adapting some commonsense ways to:

›  Lower your cradar ping.

›  Recognize trouble coming if you have  already been targeted.

›  Calmly and correctly analyze your options, and if possible, escape the threat.

›  And finally if trouble is unavoidable, react properly to address it.

I felt compelled to author this book because commonsense is not so common anymore,. Some of this content, you may already know, and some tips and techniques will be completely new to you. However, all the strategies discussed herein will be possible for you to put into practice right now, today, and that is what is most important. Getting started.

So the choice is simple, either you can train like a Navy Seal until you’re proficient in self-defense, or read this book and make less strenuous, but highly impactful changes to your everyday way of thinking, acting, and living.

Either will dramatically improve your chances of surviving in a big city, both in your everyday activities, and in the aftermath of a disaster. However, your time to prepare is growing shorter by the day. So which one makes the most sense?

As I said before, I felt compelled to write this survival guide for people living in large metropolitan cities. As to why now? If you have not noticed, there is something cataclysmic heading our way.

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

-William Shakespeare

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Consider this scenario because I have, and I found it extremely distressing to say the least. If you live in an urban area, then chances are someone else provides the food you eat, the power that lights your home, the water you drink, the clothes you wear, and possibly even the shelter you live in.

As you contemplate, maybe for the first time, the real implications of this revelation picture this dystopian nightmare in your mind’s eye. What if, one day none of the people we have come to depend on for almost everything showed up for work? What if there occurred some type of widespread disaster that prohibited them from going about their daily routine?

What if one morning you woke up and the all the grocery stores were closed?