An effective s/d weapon within most of our reach?

From what I've seen; most situations show a good Samaritan, with the firearm, coming to the defense of others. Who might have died that night if not for him? Won't be surprised if he came out of "public service".

 

I never leave home without my glock. I thankfully have never had to use it but it helps me rest easy. I have done a lot of training one of which we shot over a dozen police, FBI, and Air Marshal qualification courses. I passed them all. Air Marshall was by far the hardest. Only three out of the ten of us in the class passed after everyone was given three chances. I am a gun nut and shoot regularly and have shot competitively. I am confident I could outshoot 90% of the cops out on patrol.

I have a pretty severe arthritis type condition where my neck, back, knees, and elbows are not worth a darn. I could not fight to save my life and go way out of my way to avoid trouble but if it comes down to it and my life is threatened the other person is getting a face full of lead.

Being in the truck at night is a fairly safe place to be to me. If someone harasses me I stay in the sleeper and draw my gun and have it at the ready. If someone tries to come in they are in a pretty compromising position going over the seats and it would be easy to plug them. I worry more when I am walking around the truck doing a pretrip focusing on the truck and someone sneaking up on me.

 

Not a trucker yet (school starts Monday) but have seen truckers on YouTube picking up trailers from some sketch, lonely lots. Doing the drop-off, inspection and hook up with their head on a swivel. Would be nice to have a dog in situations like that.

 

I am trained partly by Israel, they come here to the States with core IDF courses in certain levels and when the training is done you are essentailly able to take on terrorists which is way above the average knuckle dragging thug in chicago. But training is never finished. Training keeps the rust off.

I can shoot pretty well and fighting is no longer a option for me. When I got my sight back in 2009, I ramped up the training across several sources in our local area as a act of defiance to being blind before. There is a class coming up soon that goes into trauma, medical EMT type work specifically for gunshot. When that is complete I will be in a better position to deal with chest wounds etc than before.

Our state passed a enhanced carry last week. The State police will be building a course where I will get a chance to go after active shooters with the state police instruction sometime by 2018. I look forward to it. With that improvement I will be permitted to carry into some govt buildings, state capitol and colleges etc. Which will be a threat to the bad guys where we are in Arkansas because some of these places are in less than wholesome areas. We are 220,000 so far, there is another 550,000 or so people now who can take this training and we will be not too far behind Texas with it's million plus everyday carriers in a few years.

Some of you talk about not carrying at all. I hope that nothing ever happens to where you need one and not have it. I encourage you to consider training and carry. Our society has not done very well these last few years being under economic pressure. We are about a few weeks away from total anarchy which means no law other than the law of the jungle to choose a bad analogy. No I am not a nut. There are a great deal of fun, learning and meeting good people in training.

One of these days when things get too challenging medically I wont care anymore about all that. But until that day, I don't intend to allow the bad guy a chance to walk over me and mine. There are people in my life who I love very much and they cannot fight at all due to their medical situations worse than mine. So the term im looking for is Sheepdog. Our area has been declining crime wise as it spreads out from Little Rock itself with the predators hunting naive nice friendly country people to take advantage of. There is a awful lot of weaponry where I am so they don't always get away with that.

In Eastern Oklahoma we had a home invasion last week in which a female drove 3 gunmen who came through the kitchen door. The 19 or 21 year old resident used his rifle to drop all three. Two died in the kitchen and one died outside in the drive way. And the lady driver was captured. She stated that the three did pick that home to invade and steal what they can. My heart goes out to the youngster who had to do the terrible things he did in defending his home. But he had to do it. So there is that. (Castle Doctrine) no charges for him.

If I was not dealing with the issues I deal with since birth, I would have been a Leo or Military long before now. There is a little bit of that in our family. It tends to run in it with our history. But Im more than happy to live quietly and never use my Colt. Such as it is. That is a good thing.

Thinking back to trucking, ive already been invaded twice inside my tractor one was already after my wife and made it onto my drivers seat when I came out of the bunk from being asleep with a blade in my hand going for his throat in Denmark TN (Jackson TA) and he fled thankfully. Another time a predator got inside and it took a few moments to get him gone. That one was not the best of situations. But thinking on it I had it coming looking like prey as I did that day long ago and was late to the fight. There is that anyhow. I already know how it feels to be in a fight where everything does not rise to the occasion but rather falls down and makes a hash of everything inside you. If you don't train and keep it up, if something happens it's not going to go very well.

 

I can appreciate this mindset - albeit my own is aligned with the notion that I'll rip your head clean off with my bare hands should it come down to survival.

You seen to have a sensibility about your weapons, Mack. I think some here just have an itchy trigger-finger and want to feel powerful behind a fist full of steel.... I suspect their manhood is up for debate.

I understand leveling the field.
I also sense much unnecessary cowardice.

 

I have no problem throwing down when I have to(black belt in karate,purple in bjj))but should the situation come up where somebody has a weapon then I have no problem pulling out whatever gun I decided to carry that day on some thug!

 

Judo.

Close the distance & throwdown, mercilessly.

 

this is what I carry all the time regardless if I have one of my full size guns or not just put in front pocket and go.nobody knows your carrying,north american arms .22 5 shot.

 

Not that stuff. The red can is 1,1,1 trichloroethane... non-flammable.

 

As far as the other posts about "a Gun Grab".Geez,I Sure wouldn't Want to try it.The pistol isn't "coming out to grab",like in the Steven Seagull movies.This is the "last ditch effort to "save life and limb". I wont be standing 1 foot away from the bad guy,talking and getting distracted.