What kind of person walks around unarmed?

[Lee-Lee]

63. The kind of person who has accepted that their place

In life is to be a victim if anyone wishes to make them one, and has given up on the idea their life is worth the effort to defend if forced to- that is who refuses to take steps to provide for their own safety.

Note that this doesn't just cover armed with a gun, some means of self defense even if less effective is better than none.

I know the knee jerk reaction to what I am saying, but think about it. To choose not to equip yourself to defend yourself you are taking one of two mindsets- either you are convinced it will never happen to you, or you have accepted that if you are attacked you will submit to whatever your attacker wishes to do to you.

Some people just never think about it. Some are so passive and submissive they can't imagine standing up for themselves like that.

I am sometimes amazed that the same people who talk all about empowerment are against the simple act of empowering a person to defend their own life.

I have noted that most of the women who come to me for self defense classes do so only after either they were the victim of a crime or somebody close to them was- because at first they were of the mindset that it would never happen to them, but after they saw that was not true they refused to be the group that were passive victims.

You may not understand people who have chosen to take responsibility for their own safety instead of passively hoping others will be there to help when needed. I get that, I see it every day. But because you don't understand it don't make idiotic assumptions like this one.