OldMarksman
Staff
I think that Glenn's prescient suggestion about starting a thread on training was right on point. some people have required wi th some emotion. While playing lip service to the goodness of training, many have bought up that old saw about how many people have defended themselves without having received any training at all. N now has mined the cases we have read about here for almost a decade in which people without training have been severely injured, killed, charged, tried, and sometimes convicted for using firearms ineptly and unlawfully and for hitting innocent people.
But not all of those outcomes should be attributed to lack of training. We also need to consider mindset.
A person attacked without warning because he is unaware or unobservant may have been better able to succeed due to training, but the real issue is mindset.
Would training better equip one to be aware of a risk that a robber int the sore had an accomplice protect him? I sonnet thing anyone has to take a class to learn that, but one how knows should not ignore it.
The person who observes but ignores danger signals? Same thing.
And then there is disbelief--this cannot be happening. A person who "freezes" may be no better prepared than the person who is not armed.
So, how about the Texas airline mechanic, who, when hearing someone outside, went out with a shotgun to investigate? He was ambushed, attacked, disarmed, and maimed by a man armed with a knife. He survived, but he lost his livelihood due to crippling energy.
Training, or mindset?
But not all of those outcomes should be attributed to lack of training. We also need to consider mindset.
A person attacked without warning because he is unaware or unobservant may have been better able to succeed due to training, but the real issue is mindset.
Would training better equip one to be aware of a risk that a robber int the sore had an accomplice protect him? I sonnet thing anyone has to take a class to learn that, but one how knows should not ignore it.
The person who observes but ignores danger signals? Same thing.
And then there is disbelief--this cannot be happening. A person who "freezes" may be no better prepared than the person who is not armed.
So, how about the Texas airline mechanic, who, when hearing someone outside, went out with a shotgun to investigate? He was ambushed, attacked, disarmed, and maimed by a man armed with a knife. He survived, but he lost his livelihood due to crippling energy.
Training, or mindset?