» Are you armed?
By Vince on March 26, 2012
I’ve been asked this I can’t tell you how many times. I’m always at a loss as to how to reply.
I realize they mean, “Do you have a weapon/pistol/gun/knife on you?” but what they don’t seem to realize is that those things are just tools.
I don’t mean to sound cliché, but I am the weapon. Those tools are nothing without me to use them. By themselves, they don’t “DO” anything, being inanimate objects.
I know you’ve heard this before too, “mind set”. It’s really as simple as the Nike commercial that says, “Just do it.”
Many times, even if you don’t have the skill, simply having the “will” to survive, to say to yourself, “I’m going to get thru this!”
Now imagine that will combine with skill.
There is the old military saying that goes, “Be polite, be professional, but ALWAYS have a plan to kill everyone you meet.”
Disclaimer here: I’m NOT saying to Do this! I’m merely pointing out the preparedness aspect of the saying.
So I could be stark naked and as long as I have the ability to think, I am, for all intents and purposes, armed.
Will training help? Yes. Most emphatically yes, but without the will to implement it, it is worthless.
So train and don’t ever feel “unarmed”, because you’re not.