Author needs to be defenseless while being mugged, beaten, denigrated, treated like disposable subhuman garbage by a band of roving aspiring rap artists.
But even then he won’t get it.
If I have to take a bullet prior to gun ownership so I’ll know the consequences of being armed, then it follows that anyone who decides not to carry a firearm should first be robbed, mugged, assaulted, raped, etc. so they’ll know the consequences of being unarmed...