Wolf Knowledge - Sheep Don't See
This topic has two parts because there are, while unintentional, two meanings. Once you’ve decided that it’s time to act like a wolf, you’ll likely be carrying firearms and other weapons on a regular – hopefully constant – basis. Since guns and knives tend to unnerve the sheep, and since it’s irritating to law enforcement officers if they are called every time you are out and about, the subject of concealing various hardware comes up, with an almost unlimited variety of methods recommended for hiding what needs to be hidden.
Nothing seems to work sufficiently when you’re with some other wolves, invariably one of them will be able to notice that you’re carrying something. Keep in mind that is what we wolves are supposed to do, we should notice things that the average person will not. And the average person does not notice. If you’re making a reasonable effort to keep everything concealed, the sheep won’t see a thing. Whether you need to hide something from some other wolves will require a bit more thinking, but that can be done as well. Time does it better than anything else, as I mentioned here.
Back to the blind sheep – they’re not sightless, they just can’t see what they are not expecting to see. It is completely outside their scope of expectations in their world. They won’t see a slight wrinkle in your shirt where the material is going over a pistol’s grip, because that would not mean anything to them. I don’t think sheep would see a riot gun under a jacket. I once got out of a truck with an AR-15 rifle and a 12 gauge riot gun and walked across a parking lot containing the usual assortment of people in a public place. Ideally, I would be able to say that no one noticed, but one person did. She walked up and asked me what advantages there might be with the shotgun over the rifle. Clearly not an average herd member. I’d not recommend strolling around with a couple of long guns, but again, people just generally do not see the unexpected.
And that leads to the second part of what sheep don’t see. They won’t see threats. Since it hasn’t happened to them in the past, their logic seems to be that anything bad only happens to others – vague others that they hear about on the news who have been robbed or beaten or killed. They have no internal basis for thinking that a threat could be a very real possibility, so a threat by default can’t exist. Something ugly shows up and the response is disbelief, then shock. Can’t see guns, can’t see threats.
That is until one or the other is unavoidable, leading to surprise, inaction and fear. While sitting in an often-visited tavern, a bartender asked me for a knife and I popped open my folding knife and handed it to her. The knife has a 6” blade, so it’s rather large by folding knife standards. Neither I nor the bartender gave it a thought, but some lady sitting at the bar was loudly and visibly upset at the sight of that knife.
Why? I can’t imagine going through life in such fear of inanimate objects when not even being threatened by them. I’ll leave the fear and blindness to her and those like her. If there’s a threat, I plan to see it and act accordingly. If it’s not a threat, I’ll ask to see the knife, gun or whatever. Given the reaction of the sheep, perhaps I should carry an even larger knife. But, I don’t particularly like scaring people for no reason. And, I suppose I wouldn’t. If I carried a Bowie knife with me, who would see it?
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