The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Aug 20, 2018 8:56 am
I’ve thought about it, but decided for now not to buy body armor for the following reasons:
- If I’m ever in the situation where I need to be wearing it, then I’m in the wrong situation, and need to find myself another one, post haste.
- Short of wearing body armor 24/7....just like I carry my pistol.....would I ever even have enough time to put it on? No. Probably not.
- What I CAN control to some extent is whether or not to put myself into a body-armor-wearing situation.
- I’m gimpy enough and out of shape enough that I am sure I would find it hard enough just to wear a harness loaded down with magazines and carry a rifle. The added weight of AR500 plates in a plate carrier is beyond my practical capacities.
- I’m old and fat, and I love Jesus. Dying is the least of my fears.
Some of that, I can remedy.....specifically the aerobic conditioning part.....but my crippled spine is what it is, my worn out right knee is what it is, my no longer functioning left ankle is what it is. I can’t run to save my life, and I’m sure as hades not going to run
toward the sound of the guns. It’s not that I’m only interested in me and mine, it’s that I’ve arrived at the point in life where I’m no longer
that guy, and I accept that.
I definitely can’t say it as well as you TAM so I will say all of the above
