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you dont know his background. he could be LE or a bodyguard or someone who NEEDS to have a firearm him 24/7
regardless if you are going to carry a gun you need to know how to protect it first and then also train in fighting with it and without it.
the last thing you want is to lose the weapon.
I have trained a bunch of LE and for them they are most likely to get into an altercation while having a loaded firearm.
regardless if you are going to carry a gun you need to know how to protect it first and then also train in fighting with it and without it.
the last thing you want is to lose the weapon.
I have trained a bunch of LE and for them they are most likely to get into an altercation while having a loaded firearm.
delphiOne said:There is a tricky bit of business with using a gun for self defence. I suppose this might be hijacking the thread slightly because paridhm mentioned his interest in a defensive art. Sending someone to the hospital or morgue by using a deadly weapon isn't too defensive.
The main problem with a gun is that these are really your only two options, unless you merely want to use it to intimidate which is an extraordinarily bad idea, by the way.
The fantasy of defending yourself with a firearm is drastically different from the reality. Realistically, if you defend yourself by shooting someone, you WILL end up in court and you WILL be faced with approximately $10K in expenditures and probably a year of legal hassling - and that it is if you are found innocent of any misjudgement!
If it is found that your judgement was off in any way, you could be in very serious trouble. If someone is dead, you can bet there will be someone who wants the person to blame for it. It is a little more lienient in Texas but everywhere else in the US, the legal system seems to protect the criminal more than the victim. Totally backasswards, sadly, but that's the way it is.
This brings up another very interesting statistic: more than 85% of violent crimes are not random street encounters, but happen between people that have met before. Chances are if you are involved in a violent confrontation, it will be with a friend, relative, or someone you know. Do you really want to leave someone you know dead or hospitalized? To me, this is the biggest case for martial arts training. You should be able to neutralize a threat without killing or seriously injuring someone. Through training, you can choose just how much you need to 'illustrate your point' upon an attacker. There are a number arts that you can really put the hurt on someone and not leave so much as a bruise for him to use as evidence.
Now, it's not that I'm against guns. In fact, I've been an eager gun enthusiast since I was a kid and own quite a few. There are times when a gun is exactly the tool for the job, and martial arts won't do squat for you. I'd love the opportunity to carry a gun all the time (it'd be sweet to live in Vermont), but it would be used only as a last resort. I would only bring it out if I felt there was no other option and my life were being threatened. For most situations, it is way more tool than you need - kinda like using a chain saw to cut your steak.
One last thing, you can also get through a metal detector with martial arts training!
