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"Just buy a gun."

Oh wait you live someplace where the Police wont approve your CCW permit or even a FOID card. Screw you for self defense. Break the law, get and carry a gun anyway, after your arrest I'll get your gun from my buddies on the force (yes the same ones I bad mouth in public to make myself look cool).

Oh wait. Your company wont let you have a firearm at work. Screw you for self defense, quit the job you've had for decades and get a job elsewhere at lower pay and crappy new employee hours just so you can carry a gun. Or better yet ignore your employer and take a gun anyway, yes if caught you'll likely be fired and may be arrested but your cool and will have a real gun until your arrest, then I'll get it from my buddies on the force to add with the others I got from them.

Screw you and your self defense because I'm superior and own a real gun. But don't point that less than lethal "toy" at me, it's no better than a BB gun and only old women and wimps would consider less than lethal.

Your less than lethal hits at 300fps or more and will break auto glass but that is just like a fly landing on me because I have a real gun.

I'm immune to all forms of OC and CS gas, I walked through the gas chamber in bootcamp like a clean mountain meadow singing God Bless America, because I'm cool and own a real gun.

That small jolt from the leads on the taser, that put the big bad Army Drill Sgt on the ground, will just tickle me because I'm superior because I own a real gun.

Oh, you have a guard dog. How cute, I have a gun so screw your self defense. Buy a real gun.

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Salt, Byrna, Taser, or any number of other less than lethal options including owning a guard dog has their place within a self defense world. Because, not every situation calls for a lethal response.

I daily carry a gun with hollow points and spare magazine. But, I also carry a collapsible baton. I have used the baton on more occasions than I've drawn the gun. Not because I think the baton is superior, but because the situation didn't call for a lethal response. But, I had the gun if things escalated to the need of lethal force.

I see some people in the gun community lately get a stick up their butts sideways at the thought of someone having a less than lethal option. When less than lethal is brought up they react as if the only answer to any and all situation is lethal. Someone is running at you across the parking lot with something in their hands, shoot them. Someone steps on your property covered in blood, get a nice double tap on them. Someone throws a rock at you from 30 yards away, make sure to empty the magazine into them. Shoot to kill first, ask questions later. You sir/madam are the poster child for the gun grabber community.

Now don't get me wrong, which I know some of you will, I advocate owning and training with firearms (handguns, rifles and shotguns) but having a less than lethal option is great. Start training as young as possible. Train with all forms of firearms, alternate hunting equipment and less than lethal self defense tools. Train hand to hand if that the only alternate means of self defense you have. But train.

Get that firearm, but also get that $20 collapsible baton. Get those 12ga less than lethal rounds for your shotgun. Buy that $30 1 mil+ volt flashlight stun gun or the $60 stun gun that shoots 8 mil+ volt leads out. Pay the $300 or more (depends on brand and manufacture) for the gun that will shoot an OC/CS balls or canisters, as well as kinetic balls or pellets that will hit at 300fps to 1000fps (depending on the LtL gun). Get that trained guard dog, or even just a dog that you can train yourself if you have the skills. And again train with what you get.

A bhuj, gilded and decorated with red and green stone, Kutch (India), mid 19th century

Cloisonne decorated tachi, Japan, Taisho Period (1912-1926)

Spencer Model 1865 lever action rifle, United States, circa 1860's

Moorish style ear dagger done in 14th-15th style, Spain, 19th century

Hand and a half sword, German or Swiss, circa 1550-1580

A pair of double barrel miquelet pistols, Spanish, circa 1830's

A pair of flintlock pistols crafted by Thomas Murdoch of Doune, Scotland, third quarter of the 18th century

Flintlock pistol with silver stock, Albania, circa 1850

Doran, kiseru-zutsu, kagami netsuke, and ojime; the kanamono with design of Goshisho (Wuzixu) holding a bronze vessel above his head and writing with the other hand

Japanese Edo period late 19th century Mitsuyoshi (Japanese)

Miquelet blunderbuss pistol with brass mounts, Spanish, 18th - early 19th century

Hiking trailers!

This is the monowalker fatmate, which I have my eye on because it's built for more rugged terrain than most.

Beyond long-haul, they're good for family bugout kits where you may be carrying extra gear for children, elderly, and pets.

Most hikers just resupply so this is a joke, it would only slow them down.

For those who can't resupply, or want less weight on their back and/or more gear, these are neat.

I wouldn't compare them though.

You can't store a donkey in your gear closet and use it at your convenience.

And pack goat rental cost 50 bucks a day last I checked.

Longer than 3 days pays for a hiking trailer.