I agree with XB's post number 21
I do differ on web sites to visit.
I suggest:
http://www.teddytactical.com/
I suggest reading "Talking to The Indians" first.
http://www.teddytactical.com/archive/MonthlyStudy/2005/03_StudyDay.htm
Read that site and pay attention to any and everything Skip shares.
Why do I recommend teddy tactical and NTI study group?
I am 53 years old. All my life, I have assisted with single ladies, single mom's and kids, that have been stalked, battered, beaten, abused, raped, sexually assaulted.
The hardware is easy. Give me 10 min and I will have a lady up to speed with a youth single shot 20 ga. Give me 20 minutes and she will be up to speed with a med frame dedicated .38spl revolver with standard pressure 158 gr LSWC.
I have done it too many times, over the decades.
Boyd wrote:
Mindset, Skillsets, "then" toolsets...in that order.
Teddy Tactical, NTI, Skip, closely mirrors my life experiences and observations.
One has to know self, and know Models of criminals in order to stay safe.
The hardware (gun and ammo) is not a magic talisman. In my dealings I and mine made the run to take care of evil
right now, get through the night, or immediate time frame.
Those 10 or 30 min lessons were to get through the time period while I or I and mine slept on a couch, or in a chair or whatever, and evil came, and got past us, and to them.
While we were moving them, anything where that lady and kid might be caught.
Software was the main deal. Reading the room of evil, to prevent evil from doing more harm. Meaning what "model" of criminal are we dealing with.
'Talking To the Indians addresses this.
Reading the room to keep a lady and kid safe. I speak of "perceptions" often, and for a darn good reason.
We changed locations, routes to work, shifts, vehicles, along with software changes such as not traveling alone, lighting of residence, , door locks, dawgs, ...
Change playmates, playgrounds and playthings.
It is not always a guy going after a girl, girls go after girls too.
So one is wise shut up, and not trust anyone, except a very small circle.
You file a RO on a guy, it is not uncommon for a gal to become resentful and want pay back for "her side/ her fella"
This gal might get other gals, and some the lady that is in danger and filed a RO, or was beaten, stalked, raped , whatever , knows and gasl will work you and get information out of you.
"Suzie is not driving her car, she is using her mothers to hide from you and changed from first shift to working second shift now".
Loose lips, sink ships.
The gun is the easy part. Not using the same dry cleaners is the hard part.
Not running into some mutual friends, even girls, and having to not talk to them, or been seen driving another vehicle and what it is, is the hard part.
You might "think" you know the person that is stalking, or battered, or whatever, then again folks change when matters get more serious.
What "model" are they?
Re: Hardware.
Why did I and mine most often use a youth single shot 20 and dedicated .38spl with standard pressure 158 grain LSWC.
1. These victims fought attackers, or where injured.
When a knife is produced both parties are going to get cut.
So victims had cut hands, fingers, wrists, plus just being stabbed and more worse things
Fingernails get ripped out of cuticles, fingers broken, wrists sprained...
You get the compound crap beat out of you, or shot, stabbed, sexually assaulted and you need the simplest thing to operate, even with just one "decent" hand.
XavierBreath can tell you about these victims, including kids.
2. Safe
They have been through a living hell, and keep in mind, some have kids that were abused, or hurt in all this.
They want something they and the kids "know" is loaded, unloaded and "safe".
One cannot buy skill and targets.
I know about 'try before you buy", that said, when evil is upon you, it is the software that counts.
10 min for a single shot, and 20 min with that revolver, I have literally shoved into their hands, and they don't even have to know, or care what make , model, caliber or gauge.
ADEE is applied and if matters dictate, this is how whatever this darn gun is, works and puts projectiles on target.
Hits count, period.
Domari Nolo - I will not be subugagted.
NTI deals with software , then hardware.
I agree with them on this statement. I was mentored and raised this way.
NTI catches flak for these words, and I have caught flak for saying similar, and expressing the same:
The men who shoot the NTI are superior to the common man in many ways. This superiority comes not from physical prowess or intellect. It radiates from the fiber of the man his spirit. This spirit is communicated by the saying “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn said it even better. He said, “It is better to fight on your feet than on your knees, but you can still fight on your knees.”
The inferior man loses his will and his tenacity when the matter before him advances beyond words. The superior man looks at the conduct of such men with revulsion. A bad man walks into a McDonalds restaurant and orders another man to lay down on the dirty floor next to his children and then executes them all, is viewed as disgusting bully and a murderer. However, the man who allowed this atrocity to occur, without a struggle to protect his family, is putrid and sickening.
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