When you find yourself in the gravest extreme, you won’t magically rise to the occasion, but you will react with the level of training that you’ve mastered. What that level might be is up to you.
Americans love handguns for many reasons which we don’t have time to enumerate here. The reality is that proficiency with a handgun is more difficult to come by and achieve than it is with a long gun which has four points of contact.
According to ye olde English verbiage, your home is your castle. And yes, I’m talking about the Castle Doctrine, something
Before you say, oh no, now you’re victim-shaming, let’s be real. It’s always stupid to provoke a high-risk incident and even stupider to decide to wander into one.
Much of the correspondence we get boils down to, “What gun do you recommend for…?” Fill in the blank with, “a home defense pistol,” or “a home defense shotgun,” or “a home defense rifle,” etc.
This isn’t an add-on you install into an existing gun like the Mantis Blackbeard. Instead, the TitanX is a complete optic-ready laser training pistol.
We all want to get more people into gun ownership and shooting. That’s good for everyone. If you’ve ever taken a noob to the range and started them out the right way, you’ve seen what happens.
If there’s any takeaway from the Everytown “training” course a gun owner or potential gun owner should pay close attention to, it’s their own disclaimer – consult a qualified professional.
The most important thing that you can bring to a class is your brain. Show up with an open mind, park your ego, and enjoy the experience.
I like to shoot guns for the marksmanship challenge and I get what the ultimate goal is but do I really have to shoot at targets that are shaped like people?
