 Hey guys, Dylan Schumacher. Citadel Defense. So a couple weeks ago, a couple days ago rather, excuse me, I was texting with a couple of my buddies. And we were texting about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I heard this line that I'm sure you've heard multiple times, and I've heard it multiple times, and it goes something like this, right? When there's some kind of civil unrest situation, be it short term or long term, right, like a flood or whatever, something that I think Katrina after the, after the levees broke or something like that. You know, then I'll get a gun, right? When I need a gun in this kind of end of the world situation, or when everything's falling apart, or when there's some civil unrest, then I'll be able to go get one. You know what I'm going to do, Dylan? I'm going to go down into so-and-so's house, and they got a whole bunch of guns. They got a safe full of guns. They got a hidden room full of guns. They got whatever. And then I'll just, I'll just get one of them. And I always chuckle at that. You know, a couple weeks ago here in Minnesota, we had the polar vortex, right? No matter where you live in America, you probably experience the polar vortex. And some of you guys were like, man, it was like below freezing, like there was ice on the ground. Up here in Minnesota, it was like 25, 30 below, zero. Just, you know, Fahrenheit. Just so we're clear, like, I mean, it was cold. That was a straight temperature, no wind chill, no nothing. Just 25, 30 below, zero, period, just end of the day. It was great fun. I had my car, my wife's car, my mom's car, my driveway when that happened, and all three of them would not start. Okay. So I, along with everyone else, right, what did I do? Well, I went to the, you know, the car store, like I know Riley's tried to buy a battery, was trying to find an oil pan heater, was trying to find these things to try to get my cars to start, right? And a lot of places where you guessed it, sold out, right? They did not have, because demand rose through the roof. They didn't have the supply to meet the demand anymore, right? Basic economics, I think most of us are familiar with this. And so I was thinking, driving around to these different stores, having my buddy pick me up to try to take me to the store, to try to get this stuff, to go to one store, and they don't have it, and go to a different place, and whatever, to try to find what I needed to get the cars to start. And I was thinking, you know, here it is, and I can't find a simple basic things, like car batteries and oil pan heaters, in order to try to get my cars to start. But there are people who believe, or expect to believe, or at least they say, they're going to be able to get guns when the world is falling apart. You know, I mean, my world was not falling apart. It was really cold, okay, and uncomfortable. But I had a buddy who drove down and picked me up. But people think that when there's this time of civil unrest, you know, when their world, for all kinds of purposes, is falling apart at the seams, that they're going to be able to get them, and their wives, and their kids, and all their food and water they need to survive, or whatever, they're going to be able to go to a different person's house, unannounced, show up, say, hey, I need some guns, and I need some ammo. And by the way, can we just kind of stay here now, because you know, we can't go back to our old house, or whatever. And I just think that's, that's insane, right? Like that doesn't work, that doesn't, that doesn't compute. And if you take a moment to actually think about what you're saying, you know that that's not going to work. And I think most people just say it because they think some kind of civil unrest or something like that is so unlikely that they're not actually going to need a gun. So they just say, oh, well, I'm good, you know, I got insurance, I'll go to Bob's house and Bob will hook me up, even though they've, you know, barely met Bob or whatever, they just saw his guns once and they're there or whatever, you know, and they don't think about all the other people that have the same plan, right, they're going to go to Bob's house, and they're going to assume Bob will give them a gun, which Bob might not even give him a gun, he might tell him to just piss off, right? They're going to assume Bob has ammo enough for all of those guns. And then they're assuming that, you know, they'll be able to work out a tequila or whatever. And one, it's kind of like, it's this fantasy of like, you know, in the movies, they go into like the secret room and kind of like a jankity, like going to a jankity storage locker or something, then the floor opens up and it's all this brightly lit LED stuff with closed cell foam and just guns on the walls. It's like that. It's like, that's the, that's the fantasy they have. And it obviously won't work. I think it's really funny, but I think it won't work. So my point is, when you need a gun, you won't have time to go get one. When you need a gun, you better already have one. So if you don't have a gun, get one now, right? Real simple. I mean, this is not rocket science. The time to prepare for a disaster is now, right? If I was smart, before it got to be 25 below, I would have taken some steps to ensure that my cars would be functioning. Unfortunately, I guess apparently I'm not that smart. And so I paid the price. Now, the price that I paid isn't that big of a deal, right? I missed a day of work. I had to run around and try to get some car batteries and whatever. But the price that we're talking about here for not having a gun when you need them might be your life. So I just think that's worth thinking. So some people tell me, Dylan, I'm not a gun guy. I don't want a gun, whatever. I'm like, that's great. I'm not a car guy. I drive a car to work every day. It's a tool that you use that should be part of your adult life and you should have it and you should be able to access that tool when you need it. When you need a gun, you won't have time to go get one. That's why you need one now. And that goes for, like I said, this civil unrest thing that we're talking about, excuse me, and that also goes for times when you're just walking down the street and getting mucked, right? If your gun's in your car, you're not going to have time to go get it. When you need a gun, you won't have time to go get one. That's why you need one now. That implies all your life situations. So get a gun, keep and get trained with the gun, carry the gun, carry the gun loaded. It's real simple. So maybe there's someone in your life who said that and you could send him this video to help him get directed on the right path. If you've said that in the past, I encourage you to reconsider that because obviously that will not work. Do brave deeds and endure.