Diamondback
I'll Lock Up
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This, RP, is also part of why I was a Psych student too. As a firearms instructor and old Marine I have a great deal of respect likes to say, "Your best defense is a lifelong commitment to Avoidance, Deterrence and De-escalation." It's a sobering thing when you realize that you've become, to a degree, responsible for the lives of everyone who crosses your path... a responsibility not to take lightly by any stretch of the imagination, and part of why several other instructors I respect and I like to say that the majority of a successful self-defense is done in the library, studying alternative options so that you have additional "tools in the bag" and only pull the deadly-force "sledgehammer" when the scenario is truly In The Gravest Extreme, if I may lift the title of a really good reference on these matters.reetpleat said:While i have nothing against people who are into, or carry guns, I do have a little concern. As the old saying goes, "when all you have is a hammer, suddenly every problem starts to look like a nail."