She don't like guns

She don’t like guns – Steve Lee

She don't like guns - Steve Lee
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I love Steve Lee love songs…  My favorite is I like guns, but this one is pretty good.  I share it because I think many of us are in the same place.  We like guns, and we love out partners, but she don’t like guns.

Luckily while my wife isn’t a gun person, she loves me.  Because of this she puts up with my personality and the guns that keep appearing in the house.

More importantly, she understands where I am coming from and is supportive as I share the American gun culture with our son.

Obviously you can love someone that is not a clone of yourself, people disagree, and my wife believes things that I don’t.  But a mutual respect allows those disagreements to be dealt with in a postivie manner.

For us, Genny goes shooting with me, and she enjoyed it, but she does not love it, so after she learned the basics of firearm safety she gradually stopped going to the range.

That’s fine, because I did the same with trips to her mothers…  All joking aside.  The song She don’t like gun’s celebrates mutual respect and how a person can live with someone they don’t always agree with as long as the base is their.

You Have to Practice Your Plan

Prepper Precepts #25 You Have to Practice Your Plan

 

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You have to practice your plan, thinking is not the same as talking, and talking is not the same as doing.

Practice helps you find gaps, practice makes perfect, practice is much better than talking and never doing.  In this world actions are much more powerful than words.  Don’t talk about your plans for preparedness talk about what you did.  Get out and get it done.

This prepper precept has payback.  I promise you that the more you do the better you will become at doing.  Be a doer and not a talker – your life will be richer and so will your wallet.

Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace

These precepts are my creed, and having prepper precepts guides me when I face tough choices.  A wise man once told me that when facing a moral problem, the right choice is usually the action you don’t want to take.

I am not a pollyanna person that is wishy washy or blindly follows rules, heck I have a little rebellious streak and love to know the WHY of rules, but I do respect and understand the need for law and know how vital it is for a society to have a moral code.

By knowing what I believe in you can know how I will act. This is very important in times of stress.  If you don’t want to read east prepper precept individually, the completed list can be found here: Completed 27 Prepper Precepts.

Ayoob on Continuing Training

Ayoob on Continuing Training

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Continuing training is vital to continued skill.  If you want to carry a gun for self protection, you have to invest in good training and time spent keeping that training up to date.

According to Wikipedia Massad Ayoob is an internationally known firearms and self-defense instructor. He has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense to both law enforcement officers and private citizens since 1974.

He was the director of the Lethal Force Institute (LFI) in Concord, New Hampshire from 1981 to 2009.  Ayoob now directs the Massad Ayoob Group (MAG).

Additionally, Mr. Ayoob writes some of the best firearm books on the subject of the legal aftermath of a self defense shooting.

Furthermore, I widely quote his work in my classes,  and recommend his books courses and videos to my students.

With many things I learn a skill, try it out, have fun with it, and then put it on the shelf until I need it.  The concept works well for basic skills that are rarely used and have low consequence for failure.   In contrast, this does not work when failure is not an option.  With skills like the defensive use of a firearm continuing training is vital.  Finally, shooting is a perishable skill, shooing for self defense is complicated and has extreme penalties for failure.

Handgun Scenario #1 Bank Robbery

 

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This video is a clip of a Handgun Scenario from the old TN handgun permit video, it is being used under the fair use doctrine.

This video will show a brief encounter that a legally armed citizen will face.

Please watch it and then think about what you would do in this situation.

An armed citizen generally has an extremely compressed window in a use of force situation. If you have not spent some time seriously considering what would cause you to use force and the implications (Physical, Legal, Moral, Psychological, and Sociological) then you are setting yourself up for failure.

Consider your gut reaction and what you immediately think you should do. Then think about the implications of those actions and see if it changes your mind on what you should do.

Answer these two questions:

  • Would I have taken same action as the armed citizen in the video?
  • If I had, would it have been legal?

Tomorrow we will discuss the “legal” response…  I have several of these handgun scenarios that I hope you find useful.

I think this kind of what would you do training is invaluable to preparing a person to carry a gun for self defense.  If you never work on handgun scenarios you will have to work through the situation when it occurs – this will waste precous seconds and may cause you to do the wrong thing.  Please look at the post on OODA loop for more information.

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I like Guns – Steve Lee

I like Guns - Steve Lee
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I love Steve Lee love songs…

I like guns was the first song I have heard from Steve Lee and the Lees, it is also still my favorite.

Not only do I love the song “I like Guns” but my boy does too.  I have a video of him dancing to this song and acting like a wild man.

He actually asks for the song.  He dances, but he also like holding his toy and acting like he was shooting as they did on the video.

I like them, My boy like them, and we both like Steve Lee’s song I Like Guns.

I hope you enjoy the video, both official music video as well as my son’s tribute video to the song.

If you don’t like firearms that’s okay, no judgements, but really they are tools so I don’t understand the hate.  Especially when you look at the root and realize that most gun guys don’t love guns, they love what they stand for and what they protect.  At least that is where I come from.  I like guns, but I love that I can use them to protect my family, my country, and my way of life.