Quote Originally Posted by bovi
...... I'd go with Machiavelli: "For among the other bad effects it causes, being unarmed makes you despised; it is not reasonable for an armed man to obey an unarmed man willingly."
I second that.

for the OP something u can do is to use them, and once their numbers get low, retire them in some confi city where there are many women and few men.