Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Are weapons ideal for lazy people? Unpopular opinion.

Do you ever feel that some people rely on weapons too much? Do you witness people treating weapons as magic wands?

I argue that people who think they will never need self-defense training are wrong and some of them are naive. Nevertheless, people who carry weapons are convinced that they will encounter a self-defense scenario sometime in the future; otherwise why do they carry weapons?

Therefore I expect people who choose to carry weapons to be responsible: Train in self-defense; get stronger or stay fit; go to the shooting range (if you carry a legal handgun), etc.
Most importantly: do not lose your weapon! If you carry a weapon, you have the added responsibility to protect it.

I argue that if you are a lazy person who wants to feel more safe, weapons will only give you that: a false sense of security, if not coupled with actual self-defense training and weapons training.
Your own weapon and your weapon-focused-mindset... can get you killed; injured; sent to jail; your weapon may get stolen from you and used to attack or threaten another one of us; it can get you in severe danger; it can escalate a scenario needlessly.

Dear redditors, keep in mind that handguns might be legal in your local jurisdiction, but not everywhere on this planet. Therefore the advice "get a gun." could be illegal.

First advice should always be "go train" IMHO.

What do you think?



Submitted June 22, 2021 at 09:44AM by theopresent https://ift.tt/2UtT3gD

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