What is the least useful self-defense advice you have ever heard?
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highorder
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On GunTalk, I heard Tom speaking with a caller who claimed to be a NRA-certified instructor. He claimed to specialize in training women for home defense.
His golden advice?
"I always tell women to torch off a round into the floor to let the bad guy know you're serious."
Tom stopped him in his tracks, and immiediately (with southern charm) chew him up for doing something so foolish and dangerous.
His golden advice?
"I always tell women to torch off a round into the floor to let the bad guy know you're serious."
Tom stopped him in his tracks, and immiediately (with southern charm) chew him up for doing something so foolish and dangerous.
Shadow 7D
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shoot them dead, "then shoot them again"
Might work in the military (it is still frowned upon) but I don't think it works in the real world.
Might work in the military (it is still frowned upon) but I don't think it works in the real world.
boalex207
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" Shoot 'em in the yard, and then drag 'em inside ! "
Makes me CRINGE every time !!! :banghead:
Makes me CRINGE every time !!! :banghead:
Deanimator
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Back in the '70s I used to read a lot of martial arts magazines. I think there was one called something like "Taekwondo Today". On the cover of one issue was an attractive woman on a tennis court being attacked by a shady looking individual. She was kicking the guy in the head with a roundhouse kick... while holding an aluminum tennis racket in her hand. My disdain for Taekwondo dates from that time.
theotherwaldo
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"Carrying a weapon will just make things worse."
MrTuffPaws
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"I'd shoot them in the leg. I don't want to kill anyone"
Erik M
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Zombieland, Rule #4 -Doubletap-
I had a firearms instructor tell us one time that the preservation of life was the most important thing to consider when in a defense situation. He said something along the lines of 'you will save yourself alot of legal tears, sweat, and pain if you dont CC a weapon. You are better off just running away instead of trying to play gunslinger with a potential foe'. This came from handgun instructor at a local indoor range.
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The sound of the shotgun chambering a round will render an intruder incapable of rational thought, and he will fall to the floor, curling into the fetal position crying.
RoostRider
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That haven't been mentioned yet?
"Don't go where the trouble is and you'll be fine"
Trouble is absolutely everywhere.... city, country, bar, restaurant, general store... everywhere...
My grandma actually lectured me for finding a dead body once, in a park in St Paul, because I shouldn't be there if that kind of stuff is happening there.... like I had any idea there were corpses in the park before I went there...
"Don't go where the trouble is and you'll be fine"
Trouble is absolutely everywhere.... city, country, bar, restaurant, general store... everywhere...
My grandma actually lectured me for finding a dead body once, in a park in St Paul, because I shouldn't be there if that kind of stuff is happening there.... like I had any idea there were corpses in the park before I went there...
yes. the mythical sound deterent, usually spouted off by those who have never had to work a pump action under stress to begin with.
shiftyer1
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roost rider.........that sounds like something my grandma would say.lol must be a minnesota thing.
Loyalist Dave
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"I carry a .22 round in my purse, so if I get attacked I can throw it on the ground, and it will go off, and scare the badguy away"
This was an actual quote from a young, adult female. She showed me the .22LR round that she carried in her purse to ward off her future attacker. :banghead: She was quite proud of her thought process. The cost of a handgun was much higher than a box of .22 LR, so she was saving money too.
I asked her in my best poker face if she had ever "tested" her theory about throwing down the round to make it go off. She had not but was sure it would work. :banghead:
Well it was unfortunate that this example of a true village idiot had already bred two offspring when she made the statement, the offspring, who (by my observation) were not much smarter than mama.
She was and is a statistic looking for a place to fulfill her victim-destiny.
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This was an actual quote from a young, adult female. She showed me the .22LR round that she carried in her purse to ward off her future attacker. :banghead: She was quite proud of her thought process. The cost of a handgun was much higher than a box of .22 LR, so she was saving money too.
I asked her in my best poker face if she had ever "tested" her theory about throwing down the round to make it go off. She had not but was sure it would work. :banghead:
Well it was unfortunate that this example of a true village idiot had already bred two offspring when she made the statement, the offspring, who (by my observation) were not much smarter than mama.
She was and is a statistic looking for a place to fulfill her victim-destiny.
LD
EricM said:
Did you stand up and immediately demand his resignation? Or ask him if he has ethical qualms living a lie?
I agree that you would rather NOT shoot someone, but advising NOT to CC when these people are paying you good money to do just that is the tantamount to a pyramid scheme...
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lol i heard from the guy teaching our CC class "empty the mag into the suspect, reload empty the other half then proceed to check for more." im not an expert but i think a prosecuting lawyer would try to hang you for excessive....i mean hell they have used the prosecution of "do you reload your own ammo for you personal defense weapon?" then go on bout how you load it especially to inflict more damage etc.
She was kicking the guy in the head with a roundhouse kick... while holding an aluminum tennis racket in her hand. My disdain for Taekwondo dates from that time.
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I think this may have been a sound tactical decision. Let the BG watch the tennis racket as that seems like the thing you're likely to hit him with, roundhouse kick to the head followed by a tennis racket to the face.
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I think this may have been a sound tactical decision. Let the BG watch the tennis racket as that seems like the thing you're likely to hit him with, roundhouse kick to the head followed by a tennis racket to the face.
sidheshooter
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Some good ones already. I always liked the "everyday objects" defense articles in popular magazines back in the day–the ones with hatpins, rolled up magazines and hairspray.
They never mentioned, oh, say, claw hammers or pipe wrenches or fire extinguishers or full bottles of wine...
I'm all for improvised weapons, if that's what you've got, don't get me wrong; it's the selection process in those old articles that drove me nuts.
They never mentioned, oh, say, claw hammers or pipe wrenches or fire extinguishers or full bottles of wine...
I'm all for improvised weapons, if that's what you've got, don't get me wrong; it's the selection process in those old articles that drove me nuts.
mesinge2
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After shooting the assailant, wait until he dies, then call the police.
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