{"id":84865,"date":"2025-10-04T01:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=84865"},"modified":"2025-10-04T01:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:14:06","slug":"the-armed-citizen-corner-criminal-mindset-make-yourself-harder-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/04\/the-armed-citizen-corner-criminal-mindset-make-yourself-harder-to-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armed Citizen Corner: Criminal Mindset \u2013 Make Yourself Harder to Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gangs-criminals-guns-750x400.jpg\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/criminal-mindset-make-yourself-harder-to-kill\/\">Criminal Mindset \u2013 Make Yourself Harder to Kill<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>It might be cheesy to open an article up with a quote from Sun Tzu\u2019s Art of War, but it applies so well; if<em>\u00a0you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.\u00a0<\/em>Today we are going to talk about knowing yourself through the lens of your enemy. The enemy being criminals. Using the criminal mindset to critically analyze your daily life is an excellent way to spot weaknesses and make corrections.<\/h2>\n<h2>Adopting the Criminal Mindset<\/h2>\n<h2>Seeing things through the eyes of a criminal takes some practice. Most of us don\u2019t sit around considering how exactly we are going to rob a little old lady walking through a parking lot. However, Mr. Mugger, he does. He\u2019s also plotting how he can take advantage of you. Criminals are predators, and unlike that badass alien who hunts commandos, a predator is not a badass. They are, however, perfectly okay using a toolset that you aren\u2019t though, violence.<\/h2>\n<h2>Predators look for weaker prey; by definition, they are\u00a0<em>\u201ca person or group that ruthlessly exploits others.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>To use the criminal mindset, you have to explore a darker element of the human mind. Feeling disturbed by this is natural. When using the criminal lens, you should think about who you could exploit at that moment. Who is the easiest person for me to get something from? This is the toolset that they are comfortable using while you are not.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/lions-and-tigers-and-terrorists\/\">Bad guys<\/a>\u00a0aren\u2019t typically looking for a fight; they are looking for a quick score. When you take the time to adopt the criminal mindset, you should do it to observe the world around you and to examine yourself, your family, and your home.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/criminal-mindset-make-yourself-harder-to-kill\/\"><em><strong>RTWT @ GAT Daily<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/117333307_3527937830591940_3205576862867354709_o-1024x1024.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal Mindset \u2013 Make Yourself Harder to Kill &nbsp; It might be cheesy to open an article up with a quote from Sun Tzu\u2019s Art of War, but it applies so well; if\u00a0you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.\u00a0Today we are going to talk about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,13890,5150,2351,17964,13969,5477,387,388,389,390,13,74,5512,1307,398,399,10,404,405,1897,3321,15564,9904,24,1309],"tags":[9380,658,8490,18990,4551,7402,6686,16238],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84866,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84865\/revisions\/84866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}