I have had people who went through the process getting a state-issued concealed carry permit tell me, “I don’t carry all the time, I’m not paranoid.” I’ve lost count of the times that someone who’s a ‘gun person’ told me, “I only carry when I think I might need it.”
If I’m out with my toddler and a lunatic comes at us with a knife, I shouldn’t have to waste time (while under an adrenaline rush) calculating whether I have a chance to escape before shooting to defend my little girl and myself.
The moral of the lesson was, instead of preparing for our imagined gunfight or the ideal self-defense situation, we should rather be preparing for any eventuality from a verbal altercation to an attempted murder.
“Gun safety” advocates have praised the bill as a way to prevent armed extremism and vigilante violence.
Alternative media can do what the mainstream media won’t. Here are four examples of armed self-defense that I found in my news feeds just yesterday…time and again, individuals saving innocent lives.
The scenario part of the training began for each student individually when she entered a dimly lit room — “parking lot” — with the goal of getting to her car safely armed with only a flashlight and a key fob.
What makes this case extraordinary was the fact she carried her five-month-old baby on her hip as she successfully navigated a gunfight against three armed intruders as they were shooting at her.
It’s not every day that you get wisdom from a United States Senator, so when it happens, it’s worth taking note.
The killer was admitted to a “specialist education centre” where he stated the reason he brought the knife to his previous school was “to use it.” He was later referred to an anti-extremism program after he researched school shootings in class.
Given how thinly the police are spread in the midst of this massive regional disaster, armed Americans may be the only thing standing between civilization and anarchy.
