This is a sobering tale, and I share it for a lesson that’s not immediately obvious.
Concealed Carrier vs. Armed Robber
The story is relatively simple: Mr. Miller was at his son’s house looking at a plumbing problem. His son was not home at the time, but was on the phone with his father. The timeline is a little unclear, but it seems that Miller ...
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Last week I received a request for information on the use of birdshot for self defense. Rather than writing a whole missive, ...
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(Note: I hesitated sharing this article because of the rather violent techniques shown, and because it seems cruel to use them against ...
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The defensive shooting world has worked overtime for the last few decades to teach people how to draw faster, shoot faster, ...
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This article from Greg Ellifritz is one of the most important I’ve read. Most people never think about where ...
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In the defensive training world, everything is always about “faster”. We train to draw faster, shoot faster, move faster. Our drills are always about ...
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When we speak of defensive shooting with a handgun, there are two likely ranges: within arm’s reach ...
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This is another thought-provoking post from Greg Ellifritz. A 62-year-old woman is out walking her dog at 9:pm when she’s kidnapped, robbed, ...
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It’s been a long while since I’ve featured any gear reviews here on the List. I intentionally don’t do much talking about gear, because ...
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A while back I said that the lawfully carried firearm is a defensive tool with an extremely narrow range of application. ...
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There is a persistent and vocal group of people who truly believe that just because someone is in their house, they ...
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About a decade ago, I started talking publicly about the idea of context: the condition or environment in which something can be understood ...
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A large percentage of violent incidents start as ordinary interpersonal encounters gone horribly wrong. The term for this is social violence (as ...
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I’ll admit I had a few reservations about sharing this article, largely because of the references to seducing women (and the machismo ...
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Back in the ‘olden days’ of defensive shooting training (which I’ll arbitrarily define as the 1990s), ...
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This article is better than most I’ve seen on the subject. The author brings up a point that most people ...
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I get a lot of questions regarding concealed carry for hikers, joggers, and other outdoor enthusiasts. There are a number of options, and this article at RECOIL ...
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Sometimes it’s about bad animals! This news story out of Georgia shows us that dangers don’t always look like our preconceived notions, and sometimes your defensive firearm ...
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We in the defensive training world spend most of our time talking about the neat stuff: shooting, punching, kicking, and the like. We spend very little to no time on ...
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Over the years I’ve gotten occasional feedback that the Hump Day Reading List is too long. More than one person has emailed me to the effect that their time is limited, and that they’d like me to identify the most important information for them.
I’ve been getting more of those emails lately, which tells me people really do need help “de-cluttering” ...
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It’s Wednesday, and time once again for my hand-picked selection of this week’s best articles to increase your safety, security, and survivability!
One of the things I’m most proud of is my involvement in the design of the Kimber K6s revolver. Getting the opportunity to make the vision of an ideal defensive revolver into an actual product that people ...
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It’s the first Wednesday of 2019, and thus the first Hump Day Reading List of the new year! Sit back and treat yourself to my hand-picked selection of this week’s best articles to increase your safety, security, and survivability!
I’m sharing this article not because I necessarily agree with the base assumptions (or the terminology), but because the exercise described ...
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It’s Wednesday, and time once again for my hand-picked selection of this week’s best articles to increase your safety, security, and survivability!
It never has been, and it never will be. Self defense is about the resolute refusal to be a victim, and using whatever means you have at hand to enforce that decision. This group of middle-school girls ...
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It’s Wednesday, and time once again for my hand-picked selection of this week’s best articles to increase your safety, security, and survivability!
Cecil Burch is “the guy” when it comes to dealing with attackers who are in physical contact with you. In this informative PDN video, Cecil introduces a simple yet effective “survival posture” to ensure you’ll stay ...
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It’s Wednesday, and time once again for my hand-picked selection of the best articles to increase your safety, security, and survivability!
The holidays are a time when we typically invite guests into our homes to share in the celebrations. Everything gets cleaned and spruced up — but what happens to those defensive tools you have staged “just in case”? Those need to ...
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I unearthed some really good articles for you this week. Read them and increase your safety, security, and survivability!
Whether it’s a criminal attack or a natural disaster, many people — perhaps, even, most people — simply don’t believe it will happen to them. This is an insightful article about why people don’t take threats ...
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It’s the first Wednesday of November, and I’m starting the month off right with some great articles for you!
This article explains what that means, and why it’s important to understand. It’s possible for a violent criminal to appear normal and “safe” until they’re put into the environment where it’s necessary to use violence to ...
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It’s Halloween, and I’ve got some great stories to help you tackle frightening topics!
In the self defense world, many people seem to have comfortable ideas of how things happen in defensive incidents. That was fine back in the days when we didn’t have objective evidence, but today we do — and yet many misconceptions still exist. Cecil ...
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Another Wednesday, another great collection of articles for your enjoyment and enlightenment!
One thing I do before renting a room (or AirBnB) is to check the neighborhood’s crime stats. This used to be a tedious process, but there are new tools out which make it easier.
I know a lot ...
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More great defensive preparedness articles for you this week!
I’ll acknowledge that the author of this article goes a little over the top at times, and that I think his mania for protecting his identity is a little silly in this day and age, but his article has some excellent information and looks at the topic ...
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