Quote Originally Posted by Mick-Boy View Post
I'm not buying it Ronin. Flight is always an option and PTSD or service overseas isn't an excuse for getting into stupid fights over ego. One of the biggest things I learned that's kept me out of fights is that *no one cares* if you're the coolest kid in the room. You shouldn't either.

I've spent a lot of time around genuinely hard dudes. Guys that have killed more people than cancer and look like an African dictator in their dress uniform. One of the things that these men have taught me is that ego detracts from learning. Cruising into a room with a chip on your shoulder trying to compare dick size with every type A personality in the joint is a sure way to be branded an asshole and probably take a pretty good beating in the process.

Someone trying to start scrap either has an emotional or a financial interest in that fight. Stow the ego. Let them be the coolest kid in the room. It doesn't cost you anything.

So your original question was what to do about fighting while carrying.

Don't.

Getting into a fight with a gun or a knife on your body means that tool is in play.

If they have an emotional investment in the fight, deescalate (It can be done. I promise). If they have a financial investment make the cost/benefit unpalatable by whatever means necessary.
That may be the most wisdom in a single post. Ever.