Why Self-Defense Is Dangerous

If you’re armed, if you know
You’re armed, then you’re more

Likely to think others
Have armed themselves as well.

Crutch could be a rifle,
Binoculars pistol,

Any solid object,
Dark in the hand, a gun.

Mistakes happen this way,
Even minus bias

About who is holding
The shadowy object.

Nonetheless, if you’re armed
It makes you feel safer.