You gotta love the new generation of healthy young pups that are stupid enough to believe they will always be perfectly healthy and have the reflexes of Bruce Lee when they are 90 years of age because they CrossFit/Yoga/Pilates/Protein Shakes and shit.
Bad news boys, your bodies will fail you. Some very lucky bastards will be able to maintain a lifestyle and have a metabolism that will keep them somewhat fit, but most of you are going about the same way of the guy above.
And there is nothing you can do about it.
You see, I don’t carry a gun for the self-induce coronaries. I carry mine for the ones that come about somebody endearing himself to make me bleed to death. Or give me a massive brain injury with a rebar.
To insinuate that I am less prepared to face an opponent because I do not fit the bullshit parameters of what a Tacticool Jock is and I do not deserve the protections afforded to me by the second Amendment is an idiocy.
1) It is none of your business how I feel and what my health can be.
2) Amazingly, pulling the trigger on a gun does not require attending Leg Day or pounding the shit out of a tractor tire with a sledgehammer. That is where the whole Colonel Colt made Them Equal thing comes from.
3) The last batch of assholes that demanded to be surrounded by specimens of perfect health and fitting certain physical regulations were not very nice guys and eventually the need to remove their sorry asses from the face of the earth by extreme means was implemented.
4) Fuck you, you can’t tell me what to do.
Yup, I’m a high drag low speed kinda guy. No, I don’t think carrying will make me faster, stronger, better. No I don’t train as much as I should. However, if need be I’ll do my damnedest to pave my way to hell wth the bodies of my attackers. I may not succeed but at least I won’t be on my knees when I go.
I need to get a plugin where people can “like” a comment.
I was that fitness guy in my 20’s, but 2 broken feet, 2 knee surgeries, a torn rotator cuff and a few broken fingers make working out pretty hard. Give me the guns when the zombies (or rioters) come, I ain’t (can’t) running, I will give you all the time while i mow them down.
Nothing wrong with being fit. It definitely helps.
But not everyone has that luxury. I do stay fit and run a business, and it’s very, very hard to do both. If I had more responsibilities (i.e. like kids currently in the house, which I do not) then I think it would be impossible.
So, yah. Douche move by the tacticool guy. The right to protect yourself does not hinge on whether you have time to work out.
Not to mention…that doesn’t look like a protection piece to me. Looks like it was built up for competition.
True as all that is, the fact of the matter is that you’re FAR more likely to die of a heart attack than you are by getting shot. Or pretty much any other form of violent crime. Take care of your body and you’ll be sending rounds downrange a lot longer.
(says the young guy to all the old guys.)
Don’t take it as a personal affront clockworkgremlin, but as I said to some of the youngsters at my last unit;
1 Just wait.
2 If we’re both still around in 25 to 30 years come by and we’ll talk. 🙂
The Godwin abides…
Fitness is a component of preparedness. Crying about it doesn’t make it less so.
https://firearmusernetwork.com/fitness-is-hygiene/
You are right, how dare these people be unfit to be handling a gun
http://thefitnesstips.com/fitness-advice-and-healthy-exercises-for-wheelchair-users/
https://firearmusernetwork.com/strength-training-for-the-elderly-a-life-saver/
I noticed a distinct lack of obesity in the pictures you posted. It would seem they weren’t seeking excuses.
Fitness is a component of preparedness. Crying about it doesn’t make it less so.
Let me take a wild guess.. you are former military? OK, I am cheating, I looked you up and yes, you are former Military.
It explains a lot and solves nothing.
Those guys are both about as fit as they could reasonably be given they’re wheelchair-bound. Yes, your metabolism slows down as you age, moreso if you take on a sedentary lifestyle, but that doesn’t mean you have to start packing on pounds. Basic physics: mass in – mass out = mass accumulated. My own parents have both stopped eating nearly as much as they used to, and my dad (at 60) is in better shape than I am.
Maybe you can’t stop physical injury. But you can absolutely prevent turning into a giant tub of lard. Unless we’re wanting to turn the gun community into a branch of the fat acceptance community as well?
Understand one thing: I don’t give a damn how a person looks as long as he can safely place the BBs where it counts when it counts. You wanna look good, fine, it is your choice if you have the time and money and the lack of responsibility that maybe a parent working for a living has.
However I will not tolerate people trying to dictate how a person should look, feel, or weigh according to some guidelines that do not apply in civilian life. You bring out SJW with the “fat acceptance community” poke, but not too long ago people were chided about trying to have hguns because they had the wrong skin color or they had a circumcised member or spoke with a brogue. So, more than being part of the “fat acceptance community” I consider myself part of the “Why don’t you shut up and let people be what they want to be” community.
Hey, if what makes you tick is shooting among perfect species of human beings, you can rent or build your own range and accept only those with perfect physique. You don’t have to waste retina cells looking a fat people.
Holy shit! Where are all these Tactical Narcissists come from?
Id neither of you are wrong… So what, who cares he is fat? But the point remains, physical fitness is also important, but I understand not always possible for everyone. And fitness is more than just weight… And for all we know he could be one of those fat guy marathon runners, that’d outclass me immediately.
I have to agree with Miguel on this as well, too. Every so often I come across someone who thinks that guns in general should be banned, and if you can’t fight off any threat, it’s because you’re not man enough to take on all your enemies with bare hands.
The problem is that not all of us can get that kind of training, and be that fit. Some of us have health problems, and women in particular will NEVER be “manly” enough to fight off a threat. And when that punk may have a knife, a bat, or a gun, or two or three punk friends, it becomes more and more difficult to see how being a “manly man” is going to help out, at all.
And in the grand scheme of things, why should *I* be the one to accept the rules that some punk wishes to inflect on *me*? I just want to be left alone. I’m not going to pick any fights, and I’m going to try to defuse any argument I get into, but in the end, I’m doing the best I can to mind my own business. If someone is attacking me, it isn’t me who’s violating the rules of civilization; I fail to see why it’s up to me to be prepared to “be a man” and engage in fisticuffs to end the threat!