I believed him.
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- Forget about knives, bats and fists. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. Bring four times the ammunition you think you could ever need.
- Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammunition is cheap – life is expensive. If you shoot inside, buckshot is your friend. A new wall is cheap – funerals are expensive
- Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.
- If your shooting stance is good, you’re probably not moving fast enough or using cover correctly.
- Move away from your attacker and go to cover. Distance is your friend. (Bulletproof cover and diagonal or lateral movement are preferred.)
- If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a semi or full-automatic long gun and a friend with a long gun.
- In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
- If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running. Yell “Fire!” Why “Fire”? Cops will come with the Fire Department, sirens often scare off the bad guys, or at least cause then to lose concentration and will…. and who is going to summon help if you yell “Intruder,” “Glock” or “Winchester?”
- Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on “pucker factor” than the inherent accuracy of the gun.
- Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
- Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
- Have a plan.
- Have a back-up plan, because the first one won’t work. “No battle plan ever survives 10 seconds past first contact with an enemy.”
- Use cover or concealment as much as possible, but remember, sheetrock walls and the like stop nothing but your pulse when bullets tear through them.
- Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
- Don’t drop your guard.
- Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees. Practice reloading one-handed and off-hand shooting. That’s how you live if hit in your “good” side.
- Watch their hands. Hands kill. Smiles, frowns and other facial expressions don’t (In God we trust. Everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.)
- Decide NOW to always be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.
- The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.
- Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet if necessary, because they may want to kill you.
- Be courteous to everyone, overly friendly to no one.
- Your number one option for personal security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
- Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with anything smaller than “4”.
- Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. “All skill is in vain when an Angel blows the powder from the flintlock of your musket.” At a practice session, throw you gun into the mud, then make sure it still works. You can clean it later.
- Practice shooting in the dark, with someone shouting at you, when out of breath, etc.
- Redardless of whether justified of not, you will feel sad about killing another human being. It is better to be sad than to be room temperature.
- The only thing you EVER say afterwards is, “He said he was going to kill me. I believed him. I’m sorry, Officer, but I’m very upset now. I can’t say anything more. Please speak with my attorney.”
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These situations can also backfire if there are multiple "good" people pulling out their guns they could very well shoot each other wrongly thinking the other was the "crazy" person.
Wouldn't it be better if the crazy person just didn't have a gun to begin with?
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Right... Because you can Absolutely Guarantee, EVERY TIME, that with a Law or a Rule, the Bad Guys won't use a gun... [sarcasm]
My actual comment is that...
"Wouldn't it be better if the crazy person just didn't have a gun to begin with?"
Is literally the most ridiculous statement to make after the comment,
"...situations can also backfire if there are multiple "good" people pulling out their guns they could very well shoot each..."
Can you name specific situations where former has happened or is happening and where the latter situation worked out?
In other words, please make your comment make sense... because it doesn't makes sense... AT ALL!
Seriously.
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It makes complete sense and has happened. Here is an example for you:
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/264755/carjacking-gone-wrong-houston-texas/
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Great. Now we have a benchmark for the former in your remark; people with guns CAN make mistakes. I'm not disputing this. In fact, here is a story about a Cop shooting another Cop in a Drug bust.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/albuquerque-police-release-video-showing-officer-shooting-undercover-cop-n549461
Now if you can show me where a "Gun Free Zone" stopped a crazy person from using a gun.
Or where just banning guns outright has put an end to violent deaths, not just shooting, because Canada has plenty of knife attacks and blunt force traumas to worry anyone.
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"To evade an argument, let me just scoot out of here by just saying,
Good Luck disarming people; especially gun owners."
I think Australia is the classic case to point to but I don't think it would work in the US. At this point there are so many guns and such a huge cultural attachment that you'll never see a big disarming like that.
Thanks for the link to the WT article it's an interesting read. I'm not sure that it proves causation but I will accept it as an example of what I asked for.
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"Canada has plenty of knife attacks and blunt force traumas to worry anyone."
But not gun attacks, you just proved my point. Take a look at Australia too. Since you are so adamant about about examples, please show me an example of where arming a populace with guns lead to less gun crime.
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the odds of you dying from cancer is 1 in 7
the odds of you dying in an automobile wreck is 1 in 114
the odds of you dying due to a firearms discharge is 1 in 6,905
why not ban automobiles?
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Ok...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/14/murder-rates-drop-as-concealed-carry-permits-soar-/
To evade an argument, let me just scoot out of here by just saying,
Good Luck disarming people; especially gun owners.
It's a ridiculous concept, forcefully removing force from people. Think about it.
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"why not ban automobiles?"
Automobiles have a primary purpose that is vital to society a gun's primary purpose is to kill. Beyond that though there is automobile control in place. You have to have a license and there are reasons you can be banned from driving. Why not the same for guns? Do you think "crazy" people should be allowed to own guns?
Let me be clear I'm not for banning guns, I'm for reasonable gun control laws. Of course the term reasonable does open a pandora's box of interpretation but that is the case for many laws. Where I live if I really want a gun I could get one after going through a licensing process and I'm okay with that.
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you're wrong..the primary purpose of a gun is to save lives.
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Interesting perspective but I have to disagree.
To me that would be a secondary result of the primary purpose being violent destruction of a target. It can only save a life through killing/disabling a threat or deterrence due to the implied threat of violence.
It's not like they are flotation devices or can be used to perform CPR. I will freely admit they can be quite useful though, especially in a rural setting. I'm all for responsible gun ownership and licensing.
Do you think a paranoid schizophrenic that hears voices and sees people that aren't there should be able to have a gun collection? Another example I can think of would be a suicidal manic depressive with a documented history of attempts on their own life.
To me stopping the mentally ill from acquiring firearms is a lot like not letting a blind person drive a car.
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is paranoia restricted to individuals? Can the state be psychopathic?
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@contentjunkie is right. Guns are Preemptive Murder devices. Which is why leaving it only to fictional hierarchies to decide who is armed or not is sociopathic hysteria. Don't want a gun, don't own one. I'm more worried about the teenager who just got a new car and a cellphone. We all have our hysterias. Let's just agree not to use state violence one another to enforce our worries to each other.
Peace!
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epic
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