Unfortunately some school officials don’t do what’s necessary to keep children safe. Some are too lazy to ensure exterior doors are secure. Others suffer from denial that anything bad would ever happen. Denial, of course, has no survival value.
Owning a firearm for personal protection doesn’t just stop once you get it home. You owe it to yourself, your family and society to acquire the training needed to properly handle and successfully deploy that firearm should the need arise.
While I try to put in training time at the range, I never feel like it’s enough. Because of that, I’ve been using several alternative methods of keeping my skills sharp. The Mantis BlackbeardX system is the one I use the most.
Donna Anthony is currently the Chief of Police for an Alaska police Department with over 20 years of law enforcement
You know how on Christmas Day when kids open a present like a football helmet or other piece of sports gear, and immediately have to suit up despite still being in pajamas? Well, that was me when I received the package from Alien Gear.
You don’t get to decide whether or not you’re going to be forced to deal with a deadly attack. You can, however, decide how well prepared you will be if and when that happens.
Unfortunately, thanks to Hollywood, almost everyone in America — and indeed the world — is all too familiar with the whole concept of “warning shots.”
A tactical absolute that I was taught decades ago was this, if the fight begins and you are not behind cover your feet should be moving.
I have had people who went through the process getting a state-issued concealed carry permit tell me, “I don’t carry all the time, I’m not paranoid.” I’ve lost count of the times that someone who’s a ‘gun person’ told me, “I only carry when I think I might need it.”
The moral of the lesson was, instead of preparing for our imagined gunfight or the ideal self-defense situation, we should rather be preparing for any eventuality from a verbal altercation to an attempted murder.
