In my opinion, the reason for the backlash is obvious!
The author of the article is just wrong on so many points....
Without training, You are just pretending
This is 100% wrong.
Everyday, all around the world, "untrained" folks successfully use firearms (and bladed weapons) to defend themselves.
It's a fact!
I am a firm believer that without training on the weapon you carry…you are MORE dangerous to yourself and loved ones than you were when you didn’t have one.
This statement is just wrong.
If it were true then an untrained gangbanger with a gun would actually be more dangerous to his fellow gang members than to his intended victims!
But we all know that this notion is just idiotic.
If an unarmed person threatens a cop, the cop might use pepper-spray or his baton or a taser.
But if a person armed with a knife or handgun threatens a cop, the cop will probably shoot that person, regardless if that person has been "trained" or not.
Why?
Because the cop knows that the armed person is MUCH more deadly to the officer than the unarmed person.
Criminals also know this to be true.
Carrying a knife with the intention of protection without the proper training is no more effective than carrying a firearm without proper training.
This is more BS.
Everyday, in prisons all around the world, untrained men and women use edged and pointed weapons to successfully defend themselves.
Since before recorded time mankind has used edged weapons to defend themselves...long before "training" ever existed.
To claim that the average person, without "training", cannot defend themselves using a knife is just wrong.
Far too many folks are under the impression that by buying and carrying a blade and/or firearm now makes them more prepared or more inclined to defend themselves.
Having a weapon does make one MORE prepared to defend themselves rather than less prepared.
Even the most primitive of mankind quickly learned that weapons made the odds of survival much better than not having weapons.
Mankind is at the top of the food chain for two reasons:
1) We are very intelligent.
2) We use weapons beyond our natural ones (which are pathetic when compared to most other creatures).
This mindset is like assuming you know how to play guitar by simply going to the store and buying one.
This is a very poor analogy...
Anyone who owns a guitar can play the guitar.
Maybe not well, and maybe not pleasing to the ears of others, but one can still "play" in their own fashion.
But if one does not have a guitar, one cannot play the guitar, regardless of training.
Simply having the instrument is half the battle.
After all, the very first human to ever create a stringed instrument had no "training".
Is it easier to go down to the store, buy a blade, and tuck it in the pants than it is to research training classes then travel to and participate in it? Of course. However, if the day ever came that you had to employ your weapon to defend yourself or a loved one…you fall to your level of training….if you have no training….well you see my point.
Again, folks have been using knives and guns to successfully defend themselves since knives and guns have existed.
To say that an "untrained" man cannot use a knife or gun to defend himself flies in the face of the truth.
People do it everyday.
If you truly care for the loved ones you claim you are protecting, you will make it a priority to seek training (blade and firearm alike).
This is a really crappy remark....
It suggest that if one does not seek "training" then one does not truly care for their loved ones.
More people die from heart attacks and choking than from gun shots.
But only a jackass would say "If you truly care for your loved ones you will make learning CPR and Basic Life Saving a priority".
My mother and father never learned CPR, and they raised 5 children.
And I'm sure they loved us all very much.
Seek training. Quit pretending you know what you’re doing. You don’t know what you don’t know…and you don’t know anything.
This is another arrogant and stupid remark from the author...
So if one does not have "training" then they don't know anything and they're just pretending?!?