Shooting a gun is relatively easy. The number of toddlers who have shot and killed themselves and others is ample evidence of that. Shooting a gun with enough accuracy for most self-defense situations is also simpler than it might seem. Ask those who took basic gun training courses with Tom Givens and successfully defended their … Continue reading
I was skeptical when Paul Carlson of Safety Solutions Academy invited me to attend a shoothouse course he was putting together for members of the gun media at Alliance Police Training. In addition to not exactly being a member of the gun media, the focus of my work is specifically on civilian armed self-defense as … Continue reading
Almost 8 years ago, I shot a gun for the first time, not because I was interested in guns, but because I was afraid of them. Exactly 6 years ago, in November 2012, I took my first gun training course: Massad (Mas) Ayoob’s MAG-40. (See also the funny and informative case of Mas testing the … Continue reading
In my two previous posts, I discuss the perspectives of Lee Williams (“The Gun Writer”) and Bob Keller (of Gamut Resolutions) on gun training and the gun training industry. I discovered their “Think Aim Fire” podcast recently, and sent a list of questions their discussions raised for me, which they were good enough to answer … Continue reading
My previous post on Bob Keller’s and Lee Williams’s views of contemporary gun training did not capture everything they said in response to the questions I sent them (on Episode 46 of the Think, Aim, Fire podcast, 27 September 2018), . One line of commentary I found particularly interesting had to do with the ways … Continue reading
I had to do a few hours of yard work the other morning, so I took the opportunity to listen to a bunch of episodes of a podcast I only recently discovered, “Think, Aim, Fire.” The podcast features Lee Williams, “The Gun Writer” from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune (and Army vet and former police officer) and … Continue reading
“We stand on the shoulders of giants. That’s why we are able to see so far.” – Tom Givens As I noted in an earlier post, part of which is repeated here, Givens is drawing on an aphorism commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton who said: “If I have seen farther, it is by standing … Continue reading
