Serious Use of Tools for Defense.
This includes 20 gauge shotguns of course.
Here is the bottom line, and one can bold and underline this in red.
One cannot buy skill and targets.
Mindset, Tactic, and Equipment make up the Hiearchy Triad of Survival.
One may not have a gun, and still with Mindset at the top of the Triad, survive a situation.
One's Tactics , in not having a gun, and perhaps this means Evading, "could" mean the best Equipment, is a good pair of foot wear, a broomstick, walking cane, flower vase, lamp off a lamp table...
Marketing is a powerful force. It has been used throughout history to Brainwash , Indoctrinate, and Control the masses.
Anti-Gun Folks throughout history have used "Marketing" to disarm peoples.
Tyranny has disarmed peoples and We The People all over the World, all through History, have with Mindset, have Successfully overcome Tyranny and Evil with "no weapons".
Pro-Gun Folks have also used Marketing to Brainwash, Indoctrinate and Control the masses.
Yes, there is truth to the idea that he that had the most advanced weapons, is better able to Survive.
Still...Mindset, Tactics have beaten Enemies throughout History against those with better Equipment.
Buck-n-Ball beat out those with Repeating Rifles.
Bows and Arrows Beat out those with Modern Arms.
Criminals continue to win over law abiding with a screwdriver, even law-abiding with CCWs and Tactical knives clipped to pockets.
Criminals Mindset is such, they use Tactics to pick Victims, and the Equipment is whatever "tool" they have, from a found screwdriver, beer bottle, scrap pc of wood, length of Rebar or Conduit.
Criminals "shank" each other in Prison and "shank" the Correction Officers that are Armed with Short Barreled, 12 gauge shotguns.
Think about that.
Criminal found or "obtained" a pc of metal and fashioned a "tool" and maybe "sharpened" it with cardboard. No fancy New Steel, No fancy Jig sharpeners and No concern about Primary, Secondary Bevels, blade geometry, heat treat, pocket clips and if the tip is up or down , or what style of lanyard.
Mindset being "fashion a tool". Tactic Being how to employ that tool to accomplish a means.
Correction Officer has a Issued 12 gauge Shotgun. Training, trigger time, required training and quals and - Security of all sorts to keep that Criminal away from others, and from Law Abiding Correction Staff, some being Armed and some being Medical, Clergy, Staff and the like.
Correction Office had Better NOT even let MINDSET Ever think, just because they have This 12 gauge and other Equipment, plus bars, alarms and other security measures they are Safe.
That criminal will use his Mindset, Tactic, and then the Equipment to shank that Correction Officer in the blink of an eye.
Mindset is at the top of the Triad for a Reason.
Correction officers are told, trained, and drilled into them to Never share about personal lives.
Never speak of Family or Friends or anything else "personal". The reason being, a criminal is wired unlike the law abiding and will use any and all "personal information" to distract the Mindset of a Correction Officer.
All a criminal needs is a split second of distraction and that shank will do harm to that Correction Officer, another Officer, or to another inmate.
How many of you folks stand side-by-side when speaking to each other?
There you armed with Firearms, extra mags, and knives clipped to pockets...
Correction Officer and other Professionals always face one another and position themselves to watch each others backs, and to keep tabs on surroundings.
One never knows the where or when of evil - CRSam