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0241 – The Throw Away Wallet

December 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We know that the best way to avoid the consequences of violence is to avoid violence all together.  If a dirtbag on the street decides to take my wallet and I truly believe that giving up the wallet will end the situation, I have no problem giving up the wallet.  All that the wallet contains is a small amount of cash.  Would you pay $100 to avoid getting hit, kicked, cut, shot or stabbed?  I would.  Even when I dominate that conflict there can be negative consequences.  I don’t want those negative consequences.  It is for this reason that I carry a Throw Away Wallet.

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0225 – Preparing for Cold Weather CCW

October 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Fall is definitely here.  leaves are on the ground and today for the first time, they have a nice layer of frost on top.  Fall means lots of things to me, and that includes getting ready to carry my handguns concealed in cold weather.  The cold weather makes life easier in some ways when it comes to CCW, but at the same time it can complicate an already complex task.  Today we are going to look at what we need to consider to effectively carry our handguns concealed in the cold.

0225 – Preparing for Cold Weather CCW

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Preparing to Stay Safe With Colder Weather on the Way

There is no doubt that cold weather is here.  I have had the first hard frost of the season, and the east coast has been hammered with feet of snow.  It is time, maybe even past time to get our act together when it comes to cold weather carry.

Cold Weather Means a Shift in Our Clothing

  • But we don’t necessarily need to shift out gear.
  • Easier to conceal your pistol
  • Harder to access the gun when you need it.
  • Layers complicate the situation
  • Moving from cold to hot and back it tough too

Keeping your Hands Warm

Gloves

  • Test them dry
  • Test them hot
  • They need to allow you to fully function your handgun

Keeping Your Head Warm

  • Hats = Good
  • Hoods < Hats for visibility, awareness.  One of the best hoods ever is on this Propper Jacket
  • If you need a hood, get a good one.

 

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0208 – An Evaluation of Manual Safeties in Fighting Handguns

July 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Violence is a horrible and dynamic thing.  It is our goal to make our performance in violence as simple as possible.  The violence itself demands so much from us that we need to make sure that the manner in which we choose to defend ourselves doesn’t increase that demand any more than it needs to.  When we are being attacked, there is an incredibly long to do list.  The more fat we can cut from that list, the more likely we are to be successful in violence.  Today we take a look at the way manual safeties on fighting handguns could effect our performance in violence.

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What we need to do to dominate violent encounters

To dominate in violence we have a long to do list that we must take care of:

Please DO NOT take this as an exhaustive list of skills and options to prevail in a gunfight.  That is not my purpose.

  • Make sure our mindset, conditioning, skills and gear are squared away and with us BEFORE the fight
  • Observe  the threat
  • Orient ourselves to the threat
  • Decide what we are going to about that threat
  • Act
Each one of these points has an infinite number of sub points depending on how detailed we want to break things down and the length of the to do list can really become daunting especially when we put it into context.  It’s dark, we are surprised, we may have been hit, kicked, stabbed, cut or shot for two full seconds all the way through O and O and we only have a precious few seconds to turn the tables.  To Decide and to Act.
I want to cut the list as short as possible.

The abridged version of handgun Fighting:  Decide, Move and Shoot

  1. Move and Access the gun
  2. Get a grip on the gun
  3. Draw
  4. Orient to the target
  5. Rip the trigger

The problem comes into paly when we realize that each and every step of this process can be a hornets nest of problems.

This isn’t an 1911 vs. Glock Argument

Why in the world would I want to add a step?  A manual safety adds a step.
This is not an argument against 1911′s
  • Love em
  • Have more money tied up in 11′s and accessories than all my other firepower combined
  • Carried a variant for years
Since some will turn this into Glock v. 1911, i’ll bite, but just for fun!
  • 1911′s have manual safeties for a reason, a light trigger pull
  • the trigger pull on a 1911 is a thing of beauty and it enhances accuracy wonderfully
  • BUT this isn’t happening at 25 yards!  Sexual distances to 2 arms length!
  • I don’t need a trigger to enhance my accuracy
  • I don’t need “accuracy” by the standard definition
If the safety wasn’t a trade off, I would take the trigger pull of the 1911 any day, but it is a trade off.

I See Manual Safeties Cause Problems

  • competitive shooting
  • students in courses
  • both situations provide stress, but nothing like the real thing baby.
We can train it, but with all that we need to train, why?
Don’t throw out your 1911.
  • This isn’t just about 1911′s
  • If you are dedicated to it no problem.  Train it.
  • 1911 solution
  • Understand that you are adding additional skills that you need to train.
  • Get it done.

 

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0190 – FF Pharmacy Hold-up Murder

June 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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One important concept when it comes to self-defense is cessation of threat.

In layman’s terms cessation of threat is the point that you are no longer in danger.  The threat could cease due to lots of circumstances:

  • You respond to a lethal threat with lethal force and shoot until the threat stops
  • You respond in some way that makes the scumbag stop and reconsider their actions and turn tale and run
  • You have a clear route of escape that does not put you in danger.
  • In short, one of the burdens of AOJP is no longer met.

When this is the case, the event is over and if you continue to act you will not be acting in self-defense.  The consequences could be severe.  It’s called murder.

  • reasonable man standard
  • perfection is not expected
  • judged on the totality of the circumstances

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0156 – Third Party Defense

April 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Today’s show is the third in a pretty loose series of episodes designed to help us to decide if we should get involved in situation that are taking place around us.  Remember that to even have the opportunity to make a choice in the situations we are referring to in these shows, we have to be aware.  Without awareness we are simply going to be bumbling in and out of situations without conscious control.  We never want to give up control of our destiny so start out by being aware.

We really have three choices when things go to crap around us.

  1. Dive in:  Get directly involved.  Do it instantly, do it decisively.
  2. Get out:  Our primary duty is to protect us and ours.  If we can’t act instantly and decisively, we may be better off getting out.
  3. Middle ground:  Often the best choice.  Use strategic positioning to protect yourself, be a good witness and call the cavalry.

Today is all about deciding whether or not you can legally DIVE IN!

We we get involved in a violent encounter on behalf of another person we are engaging in third party defense.  Depending on the circumstances the defense of another can be a ethical, moral and legal action.  When we evalutate third party defense scenarios here is what we need to look at:

  1. Clean hands doctrine:  The party that you defend MUST be the innocent party.
  2. AOJP:  The burden of AOJP must be met for the party you are defending
  3. Reasonable Man Standard and Totality of the Circumstances

Keep in mind that this can be a lot of information to process especially when you are viewing it real time from the outside.  Rarely do we witness situations from the outset.  This means we are missing pieces.  We will be judged on all the pieces whether we have them or not.

There are certainly times when we can clearly evaluate a situation.

  1. Uniformed officer being assaulted, shot etc.
  2. Small child being punched and kicked by an adult
  3. A situation we have witnessed from the start

But there are TONS of situations that we cannot clearly evaluate.  If we get directly involved in these situations we must understand that we are on shaky legal ground.

The bottom line is, if you put yourself in the third parties shoes would it be legal to defend yourself?  If the answer is yes, then it is legal for you to defend the third party.

Remember I’m not a lawyer and this podcast is my opinion and not legal advice.  Self-defense is a difficult legal topic and one of the areas where people can get them selves tripped up pretty easily is in third party defensive situations.  If you aren’t sure, take the middle ground and get help from the folks who get paid to sort this stuff out.  Violence is fast, ugly and chaotic.  The best way to avoid the negative consequences of violence is to avoid it all together.  The only thing worse than getting beaten, cut and shot, is getting beaten, cut, shot and locked up because you misunderstood the situation.

 

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