You know as well as I do,
Concealed Carry and Effective Self-Defense are very deep topics that deserve some time and investment.
And even though I could easily spend the last few remaining minutes that I’ve got with you here today giving some good tips on a couple of these items – here’s the thing:
That would only be a
Band-Aid. You don’t need a band-aid, and I’m not in the business of giving people band-aids.
See, when I was faced with the frustrating reality that the sort of education just didn’t exist that would answer all the questions armed citizens like you and I have, …and guide us through shoring up
The Three Pillars of Effective Self-Defense in our lives, I began using my position within the industry to barrel down the path looking for answers.
“Why do good guys keep having to learn the sort of lessons that you just saw in that video the HARD WAY?”
“Why do good guys keep having to pay for the lack of education on this subject with their lives?”
Well… The deeper I dug the
more disappointed I became.
It seemed to me that the general consensus among the people who HAVE this information is that…
A: It’s either privileged information that only those in the upper echelon of law-enforcement are entitled to…
…or
B: “That average Joe Permit Holder simply can’t handle this information. They aren’t ready for it. They want to strap on a gun and say: ‘There! Problem solved!‘”
And one of the most frustrating attitudes I encountered was that “Hey – if that’s what people want, let’s give it to them.”
“Let’s keep making handguns smaller and easier to carry – never mind that they’re also more useless – and let’s keep dumping concealed carry training down further and further.”And that is exactly what has happened.
Concealed carry training has been dumped down to the point where according to the general consensus, the only training we need is: shout “stop or I’ll shoot“, and then shoot to stop the threat.
But because you’re here, I know you see the devastating fault in this attitude.
I know that you understand – like I do – that saying
“shoot to stop the threat” is like telling a second-grader: