dove_poppers
Member
Since we can't abolish the types of people in our society who commit mass shootings and other nasty things altogether, the least we can do is learn how to protect ourselves properly and efficiently.
What programs are available to offer such self-defense training for all the various threats that may be encountered in 2019 and beyond?
There are many potential threats against life, personal liberty and limb in our society:
1. conventional crimes: kidnapping, robbery, assault, battery, murder, rape, sexual assault, desertion (stealing horses and cars, for example, to leave the vehicle/animal owner to die in a remote area as a desert), gang violence, mob violence
2. new-age threats: terrorism, mass shootings, mass murder with vehicles, attacks with airplanes, attacks with bombs
People have to know how to defend themselves and loved ones at home and away from home.
Besides being armed and trained with defensive handguns, rifles and shotguns, people need to establish layers of security. Locks and deadbolts on doors. Watch dogs. Cameras.
People need to learn how to immediately recognize a threat and properly react to it: if I were to suddenly hear BANG! BANG! inside a Walmart, my instinct would be to take cover, get as low as possible. I was soldier in the army but most American citizens have no military or tactical law-enforcement experience. The handgun one carries would be a last resort once a covered position was secured. In the army when were were in tactical field training environments, we would carry our M16 weapons at port arms. The rule was to lay down suppressive fire once a threat was recognized while seeking cover quickly. John Q. Pubic does not normally walk around with his handgun at the ready, it's concealed on his person somehow. The element of suppressive fire doesn't work for citizens who carry handguns. In this age of mass shootings, we will need new training and doctrine in regards to personal security and defensive countermeasures for possible threats.
Defensive firearms instructors who train citizens for carry need to address the modern threat issues.
What programs are available to offer such self-defense training for all the various threats that may be encountered in 2019 and beyond?
There are many potential threats against life, personal liberty and limb in our society:
1. conventional crimes: kidnapping, robbery, assault, battery, murder, rape, sexual assault, desertion (stealing horses and cars, for example, to leave the vehicle/animal owner to die in a remote area as a desert), gang violence, mob violence
2. new-age threats: terrorism, mass shootings, mass murder with vehicles, attacks with airplanes, attacks with bombs
People have to know how to defend themselves and loved ones at home and away from home.
Besides being armed and trained with defensive handguns, rifles and shotguns, people need to establish layers of security. Locks and deadbolts on doors. Watch dogs. Cameras.
People need to learn how to immediately recognize a threat and properly react to it: if I were to suddenly hear BANG! BANG! inside a Walmart, my instinct would be to take cover, get as low as possible. I was soldier in the army but most American citizens have no military or tactical law-enforcement experience. The handgun one carries would be a last resort once a covered position was secured. In the army when were were in tactical field training environments, we would carry our M16 weapons at port arms. The rule was to lay down suppressive fire once a threat was recognized while seeking cover quickly. John Q. Pubic does not normally walk around with his handgun at the ready, it's concealed on his person somehow. The element of suppressive fire doesn't work for citizens who carry handguns. In this age of mass shootings, we will need new training and doctrine in regards to personal security and defensive countermeasures for possible threats.
Defensive firearms instructors who train citizens for carry need to address the modern threat issues.