by Grant Cunningham | Oct 17, 2018 | awareness, CCW, Concealed carry, Current Events, Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, gun safety, Holster & Carry Methods, Home Security, Incident Analysis, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Training, women
More great defensive preparedness articles for you this week! Making your home into a fortress (?) 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... by Grant Cunningham | Oct 10, 2018 | Accessories, CCW, Concealed carry, Current Events, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Firearms Industry, flashlights, Greg Ellifritz, gun safety, Handguns, Holster & Carry Methods, Home Security, Incident Analysis, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, Reviews, Rob Pincus, security, teaching, Training, Unarmed Defense
I’ve got another great selection of articles for you this week! This happens too often, and I’m tired of it This one happened last July; yesterday I read of a 3-year-old who died when he got hold of an unsecured firearm. Too many kids are dying from... by Grant Cunningham | Oct 3, 2018 | awareness, carbines, CCW, Concealed carry, Current Events, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, gun safety, Handguns, Holster & Carry Methods, Incident Analysis, medical, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, Rifles & Shotguns, security, Street Smarts, Training
It’s the first Wednesday of October, and I’ve got some great defensive preparedness articles for all areas of your life. (Oh, and one article about an idiot with a gun that we should all avoid emulating!) Need some help prioritizing your preparedness? If... by Grant Cunningham | Sep 24, 2018 | attacks, awareness, Concealed carry, Current Events, Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Incident Analysis, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Training, Training Talk
This story made the rounds of social media last week. For those who haven’t seen it (or the graphic video shot by the girlfriend of the man who was eventually killed in the confrontation), the story boils down to neighbors having an ongoing disagreement over trash... 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 | Aug 1, 2018 | Accessories, attacks, Cecil Burch, Current Events, Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Greg Ellifritz, Home Security, Incident Analysis, instructors, Legal Issues, medical, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Defense Network, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, Rob Pincus, security, Street Smarts, teaching, Training, Training Talk
I found more interesting articles for this week’s List, some of them guaranteed to make you think twice! Whatever happened to positively identifying your target? I’m not sure where to start with this article, but I’ll boil it down to this: Just...