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Citizen wrote:
As to why bother writing this. I get the feeling that there are folks in the OC community who carry primarily for a political statement, as a showpiece or a talking point over what carrying a weapon really is about. This is to give those folks a bit of reality of the responsibility they wear every day.
You speak as if I'm writing an article for Guns & Ammo....this is a forum where there are relatively few posts that provide what you're asking me to give to my "readers".
In my opinion, the best preparation is knowledge and maybe this will get folks thinking about what they may never have thought of before. And I really wouldn't consider it raising an uncertainty....I think it's pointing out the obvious. If you aren't ready, willing and able to carry out the purpose of what you wear at your side...you probably shouldn't be putting it on in the first place.
As far as resources to give folks....I honestly don't think you can teach that mindset, you either have it or you don't which is why you see type A personalities in spec ops, fire, emergency medicine and most positions in LE. If you aren't born with that type of mindset in the first place, I'm kind of doubtful it can be taught to you.
I've known folks where were in a combat arms MOS that once we were put on alert, they became a conscientious objector or a sudden family emergency popped up that prevented them from deploying. The same thing with folks at the gym....you can train MMA and do great rolling or sparring with someone at practice but set foot in the cage where it's real and you taste that first "real" punch and your training flies out the window.
So in the end I suggest exactly what I said in the original post. Think about what you're wearing and the responsibility it implies....if you aren't able to live up to that responsibility, maybe it's one you shouldn't have.
Citizen wrote:
I'm not here to write how you should go about killing someone, how you should deal with it after the fact or how to prepare yourself. I wouldn't know how to prepare someone for that aside from relaying what I learned from the military....which is years of indoctrination in combat arms.
As to why bother writing this. I get the feeling that there are folks in the OC community who carry primarily for a political statement, as a showpiece or a talking point over what carrying a weapon really is about. This is to give those folks a bit of reality of the responsibility they wear every day.
You speak as if I'm writing an article for Guns & Ammo....this is a forum where there are relatively few posts that provide what you're asking me to give to my "readers".
In my opinion, the best preparation is knowledge and maybe this will get folks thinking about what they may never have thought of before. And I really wouldn't consider it raising an uncertainty....I think it's pointing out the obvious. If you aren't ready, willing and able to carry out the purpose of what you wear at your side...you probably shouldn't be putting it on in the first place.
As far as resources to give folks....I honestly don't think you can teach that mindset, you either have it or you don't which is why you see type A personalities in spec ops, fire, emergency medicine and most positions in LE. If you aren't born with that type of mindset in the first place, I'm kind of doubtful it can be taught to you.
I've known folks where were in a combat arms MOS that once we were put on alert, they became a conscientious objector or a sudden family emergency popped up that prevented them from deploying. The same thing with folks at the gym....you can train MMA and do great rolling or sparring with someone at practice but set foot in the cage where it's real and you taste that first "real" punch and your training flies out the window.
So in the end I suggest exactly what I said in the original post. Think about what you're wearing and the responsibility it implies....if you aren't able to live up to that responsibility, maybe it's one you shouldn't have.
