There is continued rising global instability. This is a very dangerous situation. A few things to note are included here. Hamas still has hostages from their brutal Oct 7 attack on Israeli citizens. There were several groups that came in for the purpose of participating in this attack. Ten, so far, have been identified and were financed by Iran. These splinter groups took some of the hostages. Even Hamas does not know where they are. Some are being ransomed, many are dead. And in great irony, one of the groups was the Mujahideen Afghan Brigade using American made weapons compliments of Biden. Did you hear that the former CIA Director recently came out and stated that Trump would be a disaster because he would be a dictator. He was appointed by Obama. During the Obama administration, he converted to Islam. As you probably know, I worked in Croatia during the war in the Balkans. I trained and led a team called Croatian Rangers. This was a small but highly effective team that did sabotage, reconnaissance and LRRP (long range reconnaissance patrol). They recently had a reunion and there was an article about the team in a Croatian newspaper. If you haven’t read it, it is in a prior post in this blog. Closer to home, gun shows are under attack. As I have talked about many times, they must come after our guns. This is yet another step towards it. If you need something, better get it now. In a year from now, it will be very different….. And as our area continues to see rising homelessness, we are also seeing the inevitable rising crime. Communities that provide assistance will continue to see this population increase and the corresponding crime rise. Washington allows them to hang out at the library and provides a food box so they can stop by and pick up food. The more we do, the worse it will get. More and more businesses are dealing with this. We have a member’s daughter who was threatened in the library, complaints have been made repeatedly about the harassment of employees from the hospital and other facilities walking to their car. These are all indicators. And, no real surprise, a nurse was assaulted a couple weeks ago. The man was arrested. He was known to law enforcement as a harasser. He had been harassing females in parking lots and he frequented the library in Washington. We WILL SEE MORE OF THIS. When an incident happens, initially YOU WILL BE ON YOUR OWN. I will continue to say it. Get Ready. Bad Times Are Coming.