Defendo Self-Defense

03/28/2023

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/03/28/nashville-shooting-suspect-texted-friend-im-planning-die-today/

The 28-year-old transgender suspect who killed six at a Nashville Christian school Monday texted a friend before the attack, "I'm planning to die today."

03/28/2023

Good guys with guns.

On Tuesday, the Nashville Metro Police Department released the bodycam footage of the officers who took down the female shooter who murdered three children

07/17/2022

Progressive defund policies too much for woke Starbucks

Days after Starbucks announced it is closing 16 stores due to safety concerns, leaked video showed CEO Howard Schultz saying “America has become unsafe”

07/17/2022

Apparently, a 5-shot, .38 spl. revolver still does the trick.

A mother of twins has been hailed a hero by her husband after she shot an intruder in their Loganville, Ga., home last Friday afternoon. "She protected the kids. She did what she was supposed to do as a responsible, prepared gun owner," said her husband, Donnie Herman, in an interview with ABC's Atl...

07/13/2022

Prudent people must assume that they are on their own... Government is not coming to save you. Americans have ceded control of their lives to corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats and administrators These have have curtailed freedom and provided no enhancements to our safety and prosperity in return for this surrender.

The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE published an edited compilation of videos from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The footage shows the scen...

12/29/2021

Lots of YouTube content creators have done tests of various rifle and pistol calibers to see which ones pe*****te interior walls, exterior walls, what have you. You own every bullet you fire and you will buy whatever your bullets strike. If you miss your intended target, terrible things are very likely to happen. This cop, using an optic-equipped rifle, at less than ten yards, against a full-exposed man wielding a bike lock, apparently skipped a round off the floor and killed an innocent girl.

North Hollywood: On December 23, 2021, around 11:45 a.m., North Hollywood officers responded to a radio call for an Assault with a Deadly Weapon in Progress,...

11/02/2019

Appendix Carry and the striker-fired pistol can be a potentially lethal combination.

06/04/2019

Wow!

Deputy Scot Peterson has been arrested over his failure to do anything to stop the Parkland gunman during the February 14, 2018, attack.

02/25/2019

25 or so years ago, I was training with a guy in Seattle named Bradley J. Steiner. He used to tell his students never to carry a knife for self-defense. His reasons were very similar to those I recently heard espoused by Varg Freeborn.

Juries and prosecutors, Steiner argued, would likely not be sympathetic to a civilian who used a knife in self-defense. In the minds of many in the public, he said, knives are utility tools and only a criminal would carry a combat-type knife and have an orientation towards using it on another person.

Freeborn has added another dimension very much worthy of consideration—the number and the nature of the wounds you would likely need to inflict with a knife in a life-or-death encounter will be horrifying to a jury unacquainted with violence. Your disfigured and maimed attacker will make a hideous and pathetic spectacle in the courtroom and this will work in his favor; not yours.

Steiner urged his students to carry (legally) a concealed pistol. So I did. I carried a folding knife but always regarded it as a tool for survival, but not for combat (as a rule).

During this same period of my training experience, I saw the film, “Surviving Edged Weapons.” This excellent film from Calibre Press introduced me to the Tueller Drill and the idea of moving off-line in a shooting-versus-knife-attack scenario. The film also highlighted that carrying a knife created another retention problem for officers. The knife clip showing outside of your pocket will identify a weapon to be seized by an adversary and used against you.

In one scene in the film, a handcuffed prisoner pushes back against an escorting officer. As the officer struggles to control and redirect the prisoner, the prisoner picks the officer’s folder from his duty belt. The prisoner then opens the knife and uses it against the officer; this time pinning him between the sharp point of the blade and his patrol car.

Since those early days of my training experience, I have tended to regard my folder as a utility tool—and not primarily as a defensive tool. I generally carry my folder inside my waistband with the clip behind my belt so it is not visible.

I have attended classes covering the defensive use of the folding knife and I think there was real value in that training—there are applications. But as a rule, I stick with the knife-as-utility-tool rule and I try to keep it concealed and safe from pick-pockets.

01/12/2019

This is an example of a sympathetic motor response (what you do deliberately or forcefully with one hand, you will do subconsciously and to a lesser degree with the other). Or it’s a startle response. This is why we have redundant safety rules:

Rule #1, Always keep your gun pointed in a safe direction. Your partner’s back is not a safe direction.

Rule #2, Keep your finger away from the trigger until you’re ready to shoot.

Three more quick observations:

1. A striker-fired Pistol generally is easier to shoot than a hammer-fired, double action (DA) gun is. The trigger press is much lighter, and much shorter. Easier to fire means easier to have a negligent discharge. I believe the DA trigger is a mechanical redundancy that backs up the above-mentioned safe-handling rules.

2. The negligent officer had bad trigger finger discipline. You can see his finger in or at least next to the trigger guard while he’s moving around the apartment. The trigger finger needs to be indexed on the slide, above the trigger guard.

3. Searching with the weapon-mounted light worries me. It’s likely you will you point your gun at all kinds of things you shouldn’t (things you’re not willing to kill or destroy). It’s likely you will grow lax about muzzle and trigger finger discipline.

** (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) ** The Lafayette Police Department released the body cam vide...

07/12/2018

My approach to firearm safety is informed by some of the work done on high reliability teams and organizations (HROs). Some of the principles of HROs that can be easily applied to individual fi****ms handling procedures include:

1. Acknowledge human error.
2. Focus on how we fail.
3. Develop systems or processes that reduce both the opportunities for failure and the possible impact of any mistake that we fail to prevent.

I favor a double-action trigger pull on my pistols. I don’t favor appendix carry. Why?

I know I am not infallible or omniscient.

I known I’m liable to make a mistake.

I know too that the conditions of stress under which I’m likely to be operating if I draw my gun, heighten the chances of my making an error.

I know also that carrying and handling a gun everyday can lead to complacency and that opportunities for error arise sometimes when we are over-familiar.

I know I can’t foresee let alone control the variables that could come together under the “right” circumstances to lead to a negligent discharge.

John J. Nance exposes a dirty little (universal) secret: As humans, we expect ourselves to perform perfectly 100% of the time in our personal and in our prof...

06/07/2018

What’s my issue with striker-fired gun’s? When you make guns easier to fire, they are also easier to fire unintentionally.

I’ve chosen, for now, to stick with double-action-only and double-action/single-action pistols for safety reasons. It’s a personal preference.

This article caught my eye because it points to some issues I’ve raised before.

If you carry a gun—any gun—for self-defense, you must be intimately familiar with safe handling procedures specific to your gun and you must practice till you master those processes.

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