by Grant Cunningham | Sep 19, 2018 | attacks, awareness, CCW, Concealed carry, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Firearms Industry, Greg Ellifritz, gun safety, Holster & Carry Methods, Home Security, Personal Defense Network, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, Reviews, Revolvers, Rifles & Shotguns, security, Training, Training Talk
I’ve got an interesting mix of articles for you this week, all of which I believe to be worth your time to read. Yes, even the infuriating one at the end! Concealed carry and traffic stops How should you handle a traffic stop when you’re carrying a defensive... by Grant Cunningham | Sep 17, 2018 | attacks, awareness, Current Events, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Incident Analysis, Personal Safety, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Training
It’s easy to think of self defense as a thing you do in response to a bad guy. After all, that’s what most self defense courses focus on: bad guy appears and you perform the indicated response. So neat. So tidy. So precise. And so misleading. Self defense doesn’t... by Grant Cunningham | Jul 23, 2018 | attacks, awareness, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Training
The great physicist Werner Heisenberg is responsible for describing a very interesting phenomenon in quantum physics: our observations effect the behavior of quanta (quantum particles). In other words, by simply observing an experiment, it’s possible that we... by Grant Cunningham | Jul 16, 2018 | awareness, Concealed carry, confidence, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Home Security, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Training, Travel Safety, Unarmed Defense
No matter what the preparedness focus, be it just self defense or a full-blown disaster, in the back of everyone’s mind is a little voice that wonders if they’re not being just a little silly. “After all”, the little voice says, “you’re spending a lot of your time,... by Grant Cunningham | Jul 2, 2018 | awareness, Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, instructors, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Training, Unarmed Defense
A few weeks back I wrote an article on why I don’t entertain the notion of “what-if” scenarios. If you haven’t read it, you should. On a somewhat related note, I also don’t entertain the notion of the foregone conclusion scenario. It’s the one that presupposes a... by Grant Cunningham | Jun 20, 2018 | awareness, CCW, Concealed carry, Current Events, Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Greg Ellifritz, Incident Analysis, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Defense Network, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, Revolvers, security, Street Smarts, Training, Training Talk, Travel Safety
It’s another Hump Day, and I’m here to share some more great personal defense and preparedness articles with you. (Which is actually redundant, because personal defense is but one form of preparedness, though not everyone realizes that — yet!) “People don’t plan...
