Category: Mindset
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No Stress, No Change: Carry Trainer S12 2024 AAR
Welcome, friends. Synopsis S12 is a multidisciplinary 4-day training event hosted by Mickey Schuch of Carry Trainer. It’s billed as a wholistic experience incorporating instruction in defensive pistolcraft, tactical combat casualty care (TCCC), and combatives, as well as guided breathwork and mindfulness exercises. The event was held at the Five…
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Teenagers Scare The Livin’ Sh*t Outta Me: Minors as Unknown Contacts
Welcome, friends. Imagine an armed robbery or assault. Focus on the attacker. Picture them. What do they look like? For many people, the character that came to mind is a young man between the ages of 18 and 35. Maybe your imagination added some extra details—identifying marks like tattoos, scars,…
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Hold My Guns®: No Legislation, No Stigma, No Questions Asked
Welcome, friends. This blog post is going to be a very personal one—one that I’m very self-conscious about publishing, even though I suspect more people in this community than will admit to it have similar backstories. If curating a positive online persona was my priority, I wouldn’t be sharing this.…
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Know Thyself: Self-Knowledge for Self-Defense
Credit to Alex Sansone (The Suited Shootist) for his competencies diagram, shown above as the featured image. Welcome, friends. Military strategists and philosophers have preached the tactical and spiritual benefits of self-knowledge since time immemorial. As self-defenders, we’re required to dabble in both of those worlds to some degree. Although…
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Living (and Dying) Vicariously through Victors, Victims, and Villains in Violence Caught on Video
Welcome, friends. The exigence for this blog entry was a social media post from the Shivworks group and its subsequent reposting by revolver expert Caleb Giddings. It was posted to Facebook and Instagram on December 23rd (it appears to be a screenshot from Twitter, so I assume it was posted…
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