Mir, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s interim heavyweight champion, had a pair of real handguns on his hips and two large knives around his midsection. A fierce advocate of the Second Amendment, Mir holds a concealed weapons permit and believes there would be less crime if more people carried guns. A skeptic questioned why Mir, one of the finest mixed martial arts fighters in the world, would need more weaponry than a small-town police force for protection. Mir didn’t budge. “No question about it, I need them more than you,” the powerfully built, 6-foot-3, 250-pound Mir said to a middle-aged, out-of-shape reporter. “If someone’s coming after me, they’re probably not going to come after me 1-on-1. And they’re probably going to come after me with the intention of doing me harm or doing my family harm.”
