Armed and Unarmed: A Difference in Mindset
Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- Being armed or unarmed is, in many ways, a state of mind.
An armed person sees the world differently from a person who has decided to be unarmed. Nicolo Machiavelli, the famed author and political philosopher, states it well in The Prince:
Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work well together.
Reactions to a recent murder and self-defense shooting highlight the difference of the viewpoints of armed and deliberately unarmed people.
On 21 October, 2018, a neighbor, Tyler Herrick, entered a house, uninvited. Kyle Adams, one of two roommates, was in the house. He woke to find Herrick in his bedroom. Adams told Herrick to leave. Herrick left.
Adams texted his roommate, Brennan Pebbles. Pebbles immediately left work and came to the house. After Pebbles arrived, the neighbor, Herrick, entered the front …Read the Rest
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