I don’t want a policeman to draw down on me in a parking lot because he sees my weapon in a pancake holster on my belt as I’m loading Christmas presents. I don’t want to explain to a child that the Glock in my sock is there because I have self-selected to safeguard everyone around me. I’ve decided I don’t want to spend another cent on guns, but rather intend to prepare myself mentally and physically for the unlikely scenario of having to act like a responsible citizen in a crisis. When I got back from Afghanistan last month, I was going to buy a weapon specifically for concealed carry. The following month, each SF guy received the highest valor award available for peacetime actions. The shooter shot one of the SF guys (not the one I knew) in the foot as they closed on him, but they tackled him and proceeded to beat him with great enthusiasm. They came up behind a soldier with an AK-47 and a pistol who was shooting members of his unit as they formed for a morning run. Please note: they heard shooting and ran toward it, though they were unarmed. They realized something was wrong and started running through the woods toward the sound of the shooting. In 1995 a sergeant from my unit was one of three SF soldiers running on Fort Bragg in North Carolina when they heard shots being fired from a brigade headquarters area. I'm taking a cue from one of my guys in 3rd Special Forces Group. Are we really going to turn our public spaces into shooting galleries? Somebody could monitor from a secure room and pan over the crowd looking for the wolf. 50-caliber-machine-gun mounts on the armored trucks driven around Afghanistan, and mount rifles on the side of the cameras. We could put an aim dot on the lens, just like the. We have the technology to arm surveillance cameras. I'm going to live in such a manner in my own country, the land of the free, the home of the brave? We’re all going to carry so we can be the armed sheep dogs waiting for the next attack? We’re going to turn the malls into OK Corrals waiting to happen? Maybe we should all carry and use what we have learned from weaponized robots, like drones with Hellfires. But everyone knew I was armed and presumably dangerous. I have no idea if my rifle deterred an Afghan from shooting me in the back. service member who died in a green-on-blue attack. My rifle was inconvenient to carry, but pistols were common to almost every dead U.S. Also, by carrying an M-4 carbine, everybody knew I was carrying something that could stitch even U.S. Pistols are worthless when facing a rifle, and all the Taliban carry AK-47s. I just came back from Afghanistan, where I didn't carry a pistol, but a rifle.
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