You don’t get to decide whether or not you’re going to be forced to deal with a deadly attack. You can, however, decide how well prepared you will be if and when that happens.
What should you say to police? In short, not very much. If you’re not sure what to say, just say you were in fear for your life and that you want to talk to an attorney before answering questions.
Unfortunately, thanks to Hollywood, almost everyone in America — and indeed the world — is all too familiar with the whole concept of “warning shots.”
A tactical absolute that I was taught decades ago was this, if the fight begins and you are not behind cover your feet should be moving.
“If you don’t think you need the Second Amendment or if you don’t think you need to carry a firearm or have self-defense, then you are coming from a place of privilege and you’re not coming from a community that is plagued with violence.”
Politically, the field had a violent streak which, by the way, Fidel comes from that tradition. Afterwards, the issue has become a lot of use of weapons against the population by security forces, with a population that has no ability to protect itself.
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.
