New Defensive Pistolcraft Post

Jon Low at Defensive Pistolcraft has published a new roundup of articles and videos related to firearms, self-defense and more. Plus he adds his own thoughts and commentary where needed. And although the effete censors at Blogger have put it behind a "sensitive content" warning, it is well worth your perusal. As Jon writes near the top of his post: 

     I teach a lot of self-defense / pistolcraft classes.  Because as humans, we use tools.  To shun the use of emergency rescue tools is stupidity, which is widespread.  

     Most of my students are sent to me by loved ones after suffering a traumatic incident.  Tim Larkin says 70% of his students attend his classes because they have suffered a traumatic incident.  So, I try to outreach to get the little girls trained and so avoid the incident in the first place.  

     But very few understand.  A person's gait, body language, posture, and such can make the person enticing to the criminal predator.  Fixing these things is just treating the symptoms, not the underlying cause.  The student must learn the skill at arms to be confident.  Because confidence cannot be bluffed.  The information leaks out in the person's behavior, causing the predator to deselect the person.  But very few understand and it's hard to educate the blissfully ignorant.  

     So step up and do your part to educate.  The life you save may be a loved one.  But you'll never know.  Because you can't prove your efforts prevented a thing from happening.  Maybe in Heaven you can ask God.  

Some other items:

• "The enemy's death should come as a complete surprise to him."
• "Maneuver to a safe background, and shoot him." 
• "Last night we had a homeless guy come into the emergency room.  He's a frequent flier.  He started taking bottles of booze out of his bag.  The receptionist at the front desk told me to get him out, because they don't tolerate alcohol in the emergency room lobby.  I called for back up (because I'm not stupid).  The two of us approached him and asked him to leave.  He went for a knife at breast level in his coat.  I stepped in close (he obviously expected me to back up).  I said, 'Pull it and I'll kill you.'  Not in a threatening way.  Just matter of fact, even friendly, like talking to a child.  

"He grabbed his stuff and left.  Cussing and screaming all the way.  

"My supervisor, who was standing next to me, said, 'Ya, you got to treat them like children.'  

"I don't know.  I've never killed a child.  But you have to be prepared to.  A lot of gang bangers are children, and they will kill you." 

• "The big difference between good guys and bad guys is that the bad guys will shoot through walls.  We will only shoot at things that we have positively identified.  We will only shoot at things that we know we will hit.  We will only shoot when we know the background is safe."