Just remember, most countries place a far greater value on gun control than their citizens. Its ok, as a trained LEO to not have a weapon, drive by a school or public venue and watch innocent children being slaughtered. Far better to have dead kids, than responsible armed citizens. Britian and Europe really love their laws, regardless of the dead. Hey, they can always make more, right?
Truth spoken here, but, most of these fat, untrained pigs would run at the first gunshot anyway.
“Security” is fine, just avoid anything that would identify you as a LEO, because, if you cap someone, you will be sued by some maggot, regardless of the situation. Dont let some defense attorney claim their clients’ “child” his killed by someone “impersonating a police officer”.
Thought for the day;
Never, ever forget, the freedoms you enjoy today were bought and paid for by the blood spilled in the past.
Copy that, and I like the graphic 
Going to the range this weekend for training? Make sure movement and stress are a high priority.
Just for something different, I ran this little drill early this morning before my class showed up for the regular Friday training. I dont have access to a training dummy, so, I used a 90 lb Rogue bag. I screwed the mag change up on the first run, but, hey, that’s why we train. Harder than it looks.
If you do go to train this weekend, share it with us.
Thought for the day:
How well do you know your battlespace?
How many of you live in an apartment, house, or condo? Probably all of you unless you are like me and live in hooch or rent a utility room. Now, can you navigate your battlespace in the dark? Can you find an intruder or fight off a home invasion by knowing every little detail of your home? If not, you have some planning to do.
I have banged the door on many a dwelling and no matter how good the intelligence, plans, or schematics were there was always Murphy hiding somewhere. Does your apartment have two bedrooms, an upstairs? Single flat with only one entrance? Fire escape or balcony? How do you get you and your family out in case of fire or attack? Do you know how to fight in a house? What is actual cover? (stop a bullet) and not just a fake sense of concealment?
It you live in a house, do you have an upstairs bedroom and the kids sleep downstairs? Or vice versa? How many entries and exits to the house and which is the weakest and which is a natural chokepoint for attackers?
Where are your weapons kept? Does your primary home defense weapon have a mounted light? If you home has two levels, do you keep a weapon secured on both floors? Can you find it in the dark if someone cuts power to your home?
“A man’s home is his castle”, as the old saying goes, but, it’s up to you to build the best defensible moat possible.
I am going to post an article about hallways that I originally posted in the Bad Ideas thread. It is a good basic article on hallways and corridors. Study the diagrams and apply it to your situation and if you have kids in school, this is usually the basic layout of an elementary or primary school (US).
Train the way you fight:
I was talking to a friend about training with my pistol (well, more like proselytizing) and he asked me how often I practice mag changes. The honest answer was pretty much never. In a fight, I would dump my mag on the ground and move on, at least I hope so, but in practice, mags cost money. This is something I need to work on. I was thinking about laying down a moving blanket or two for some cushion, and to prolong the life of my training mags.
Something struck me as funny in a YouTube video about draw stroke I found recently. The guy would draw, fire two rounds, reload and fire two more, every time. Does he train that way? That seems like a fucking terrible habit, dumping your mag after two shots. He seemed knowledgeable, was quick on the draw, and is probably a better shot that I am. But this made me think that I should probably watch fewer videos.
So, questions for Idaho and others; any good instructors making quality YouTube videos for the masses?
A point to bring up here (apology if addressed down thread):
Not to downplay your statement as your own writings state this thought over and over, but l see the mental aspect to be of greater value. Here is why - older men can’t defeat 3 (determined) young ones, or can’t handle the recoil of a powerful load, or overcome the lack of sensory deprivation caused by PCP, or the raw power of a 2000# bull crushing you into a corral corner.
For me, wrecking 2 lowest discs was my worst issue when added to the natural effects of passing 55 years. So ramping up caution of getting into untenable environments, heightened situational awareness, and training within the concept of needing to be a step ahead mentally - to compensate for previous physical capability.
Not saying physical fitness is not of high value. I just have had to rethink how best to survive potential hostilities by being smarter.
The basics are the key to mastery. I dont know what he was doing, but, I run reloading drills all the time. One of the reasons is, in times of high stress, not everything is perfect, so, if your grip is a little off, or you are off on seating the magazine, then the pistol will have a failure to feed. The primarly clearing method is “tap , rack, bang”, but sometimes you have to “rip” a magazine out to clear the jam. Practice reloading drills.
Invest in some dummy rounds, have someone else load your mags, then run a course.You never know when you may need to change mags.
Search for Rob Leatham, Robert Vogel, Mike Pannone, Pat McNamara, Ken Hackathorn.
You are totally correct. The mind is the most powerful weapon you have, one of the reasons I stress situational awareness and skill training so much, is, I think this lays the foundation for mental toughness and tactical thinking. So, if I have given a different impression, then thats on me and I will try to express myself better in the future.
Thought for the day:
Mind-set
Noun
The ideas and attitudes with which a person approaches a situation, especially when these are seen as being difficult to alter
Second thought of the day:
Got to love the Brits, “only cowards carry” . Fucking unbelievable. You walk into your dwelling and a predator is raping your 14 year daughter. Lets see, bad lanaguage and fingernails? Oh, I get it, you have trained your whole life and could kick anyones ass? right…I have no words for this shit.
You have always stressed an eyes open and continually trained response. No question that’s saved you in situations most of us can’t envision. So l was just highlighting a personal evaluation.
Not off topic, but slighly different viewpoint. A big and really strong friendof mine was penning some cows, got trapped in a corral corner by a big bull. He was pretty beat up in a matter of seconds. Couldn’t climb out, had no hotshot, punches unfelt by the beast. He ended up with several broken ribs and an arm, probably lucky to have stayed on his feet.
Great thread.
Glad your friend survived that attack. Never been in a bull attack, so, that is a new one on me. Jesus. As a follow on, a Australian trooper and I were taking about hunting feral hogs and he told that feral cattle kill several people each year. He said they were more aggressive than a water buffalo.
I like the 2nd last one… I don’t actually own a tomahawk, but I have a heavy bladed knife that would split wood.
Robert Rogers, Rule #13!
What do you think of this thing?
It feels a little clumsy to me. It’s pretty scary looking though.
I have a few anecdotes that I have wanted a sounding board for a long time. It relates to the general common sense of my family member who have lived privilege lives that I think causes them to be desensitized to much of the wider world.
In the 1970s, we lived in a nicer area of town. One morning we woke up and the front door was open, there were muddy footprints coming in and the television was gone. The police were called, but because NOONE COULD BE BOTHERED LOCKING THE DOOR they couldn’t assign much investigative time to it.
Fast forward a few years, we got ourselves a new house in a sleepy suburb with no sidewalks and drainage culverts. Mostly brick houses around, but it was suburban. My older brother declares that the front door lock was exceedingly cheap. My stepmother told him to shut up and that her and dad had been assured it was secure. To prove his point, he went outside with me as his witness, locked the door with his key, and with 2 stiff wires got in in just a couple of minutes. My parents rioted on him, telling him that he would be jailed and kicked out of the house. He protested saying that he had done them the dear service of proving to them what they out to have known.
In the early 90s I was in an employment resource centre, in the line up for the fax machine with a cover letter and resume. I felt a tap on my shoulder, and saw someone I had known a few years before, but not immediately noticed. He noticed me first, that says one thing. He said, “here is you pen back”. I hadn’t lent him my pen, I had last left it in the side seam easy reach pocket of a pair of twill slacks. He could have made off with my pen, really my keys and wallet and maybe neither I nor anyone in the crowd would have noticed. He just did me the dear service of proving to me what I needed to know without any real consequence.
Any time I try to tell my dad and stepmother about anything to do with real world security, they immediately feel uncomfortable, squirm and generally can’t see the rationale. they are sort of like large corporations that freak out with legal threats when an ethical computer cracker notifies them of an exploit. The thing is they try to ostracize me in that I sometimes have better real world knowledge than they do, and it is frustrating.
The frickin Brits are so stupid. The Bobbies and their batons can be formidable against unarmed citizens, but I’ll be damned if I’d live in a country where I couldn’t be armed. And a knife turn in bin? Really? Hope our politicians don’t get on a kick to seize cutlery here 
