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Training and Use of Lethal Force...Lesson 5
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This is a hot topic, but we will make some things clear. As a human we are limited on how much information we can access under stress. WE HAVE A LIMIT! The mainstream types that feel you will be able to call upon Hollywood type moves and concepts when facing death ignore this issue.
Another myth is the entire concept of "muscle memory reflex." A term that is the exclusive domain of gun magazines and related fans. The term has only one medical application. That is the ability of a muscle to return to a prior condition after an injury. It has nothing to do with shooting.
You have to think of your odds of being in a shooting situation. They are almost slim to none. Some estimates claim police have about a 2% chance of using their gun in an entire career. Anyone can give you a "plan" and the chances it will ever be put to the test are rare. And if you fail they blame you for the failure, not the training. A nice cozy position to be in.
Our entire concept is simplicity. To keep training simple and at a level that you can master it and expect reasonable results. In the panic of a self-defense shooting your mind will not be able to recall complex procedures. It also won't do anything "automatically." EVERY move a muscle makes is based on thought process. It doesn't just happen. You may not be able to explain why you do something, but the muscle can not respond without a thought process.
The thinking process is very limited under stress and even comes under attack by built in self-serving methods to allow survival based on concepts that may go back a hundred thousand years or more.
Each of us is indeed unique, but we are limited in how we can respond. It is vital to make it clear that we are so highly limited. We MUST reduce the amount of information we process to make any opportunity to respond with any chance of survival possible.
We have two choices. We can attempt to process huge volumes of complex information and apply it to a given situation, or we can attempt to rely on our God given instincts, which seem to serve us so well in so many areas.
There is the concept that we can call upon complex target shooting disciplines in the high stress of self-defense. This type of technology is 300+ years old. Regardless of a fancy buzzword name to a method, it is still target shooting concepts. Effective target shooting requires not only constants but also low stress. The reliable and accurate placement of a bullet is a learned skill and requires the application of complex procedures against a target that is at a known distance, in almost ideal conditions and doesn't move. It also is not a threat to you in any manner.
To take those elements and think you can bring them over to self-defense where you may get killed under the most horrific and unpredictable conditions is being the ultimate optimist.
Target shooting requires breath control, trigger control, sight alignment, quality vision, and a stress free environment. You won't find any of these present in self-defense.
We have to look at what is KNOWN about self-defense shootings. The vast majority is at very close range. Most are well UNDER 21 feet. 21 Feet is a rather common living room range. Estimates are pretty clear you are shooting at a human size target at room range. This is hardly the atmosphere target shooting thrives at. In fact, using target-shooting methods on a comfortable gun range, you can shoot a single hole grouping without much effort at that range.
If target-shooting methods can produce a grouping under an inch at this range by average target shooters, why is the miss rate at this range in self-defense off the scale? Something is very wrong with the target-shooting concept. Target-shooting methods are not paying off in the self-defense arena of life. Something is very wrong and the shooters are not the problem. It is the methods that aren't working, but we insist on clinging to these antiquated methods that are killing us.
We have reviewed HUNDREDS of actual shootings on video and in photographs. It doesn't take long and you soon see a common thread in the very vast majority of shootings, which are frequently police oriented. The officers are not resorting to training and what you see is seldom addressed in training programs. Most training programs are designed to protect employers from liability, not to keep the officers alive. Officers are put on the street with a MINIMUM of training to try and protect the employer from liability and they would reduce that amount of training if they could.
The actual videos show some very revealing facts. One is the inability of the officer to use the sights on the gun. The thugs don't allow such a luxury in the real world of self-defense. The officer is almost always responding AFTER the threat starts and the time frame of being able to defend ones self is limited to non-existent.
Most training will ASSUME you get to make some choices. In almost all circumstances the thug will make decisions that you can only respond to IF you are lucky.
Your response will be limited by a wide variety of things going on. That is why we reduce training to the most simple and basic procedures that require the least amount of thought process and effort on your part. The methods are designed to produce reasonable performance under the most severe conditions you can imagine.
The actual videos of real life shootings have been a source of incredible information that was never before available. They have a broad range of consistent information that is there for us to harvest. Those that ignore the information they contain are not serving our best interests, but only their own agenda.
To point at the failings of the shooters captured on those videos is dancing in their blood. What we feel is that the present on-line systems now used are failing and it now on video for all to see and many people are embarrassed by the very public disclosure of their efforts that are failing.
It is time to stop blaming the shooter for any failures and blame the lack of basic common sense in training shooters the REALITY of self-defense and what we can do to protect ourselves.
The gun-laced snake oil now being sold is well documented to fail. We have done our best to harvest what works from those videos, interviews, and other sources.
To do so shows a huge common series of threads that are now not addressed by the target-shooting crowd of self-defense methods. In the next lesson we look at what we have seen to be true and how we can perfect our responses with those known characteristics of self-defense.
Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
This is a hot topic, but we will make some things clear. As a human we are limited on how much information we can access under stress. WE HAVE A LIMIT! The mainstream types that feel you will be able to call upon Hollywood type moves and concepts when facing death ignore this issue.
Another myth is the entire concept of "muscle memory reflex." A term that is the exclusive domain of gun magazines and related fans. The term has only one medical application. That is the ability of a muscle to return to a prior condition after an injury. It has nothing to do with shooting.
You have to think of your odds of being in a shooting situation. They are almost slim to none. Some estimates claim police have about a 2% chance of using their gun in an entire career. Anyone can give you a "plan" and the chances it will ever be put to the test are rare. And if you fail they blame you for the failure, not the training. A nice cozy position to be in.
Our entire concept is simplicity. To keep training simple and at a level that you can master it and expect reasonable results. In the panic of a self-defense shooting your mind will not be able to recall complex procedures. It also won't do anything "automatically." EVERY move a muscle makes is based on thought process. It doesn't just happen. You may not be able to explain why you do something, but the muscle can not respond without a thought process.
The thinking process is very limited under stress and even comes under attack by built in self-serving methods to allow survival based on concepts that may go back a hundred thousand years or more.
Each of us is indeed unique, but we are limited in how we can respond. It is vital to make it clear that we are so highly limited. We MUST reduce the amount of information we process to make any opportunity to respond with any chance of survival possible.
We have two choices. We can attempt to process huge volumes of complex information and apply it to a given situation, or we can attempt to rely on our God given instincts, which seem to serve us so well in so many areas.
There is the concept that we can call upon complex target shooting disciplines in the high stress of self-defense. This type of technology is 300+ years old. Regardless of a fancy buzzword name to a method, it is still target shooting concepts. Effective target shooting requires not only constants but also low stress. The reliable and accurate placement of a bullet is a learned skill and requires the application of complex procedures against a target that is at a known distance, in almost ideal conditions and doesn't move. It also is not a threat to you in any manner.
To take those elements and think you can bring them over to self-defense where you may get killed under the most horrific and unpredictable conditions is being the ultimate optimist.
Target shooting requires breath control, trigger control, sight alignment, quality vision, and a stress free environment. You won't find any of these present in self-defense.
We have to look at what is KNOWN about self-defense shootings. The vast majority is at very close range. Most are well UNDER 21 feet. 21 Feet is a rather common living room range. Estimates are pretty clear you are shooting at a human size target at room range. This is hardly the atmosphere target shooting thrives at. In fact, using target-shooting methods on a comfortable gun range, you can shoot a single hole grouping without much effort at that range.
If target-shooting methods can produce a grouping under an inch at this range by average target shooters, why is the miss rate at this range in self-defense off the scale? Something is very wrong with the target-shooting concept. Target-shooting methods are not paying off in the self-defense arena of life. Something is very wrong and the shooters are not the problem. It is the methods that aren't working, but we insist on clinging to these antiquated methods that are killing us.
We have reviewed HUNDREDS of actual shootings on video and in photographs. It doesn't take long and you soon see a common thread in the very vast majority of shootings, which are frequently police oriented. The officers are not resorting to training and what you see is seldom addressed in training programs. Most training programs are designed to protect employers from liability, not to keep the officers alive. Officers are put on the street with a MINIMUM of training to try and protect the employer from liability and they would reduce that amount of training if they could.
The actual videos show some very revealing facts. One is the inability of the officer to use the sights on the gun. The thugs don't allow such a luxury in the real world of self-defense. The officer is almost always responding AFTER the threat starts and the time frame of being able to defend ones self is limited to non-existent.
Most training will ASSUME you get to make some choices. In almost all circumstances the thug will make decisions that you can only respond to IF you are lucky.
Your response will be limited by a wide variety of things going on. That is why we reduce training to the most simple and basic procedures that require the least amount of thought process and effort on your part. The methods are designed to produce reasonable performance under the most severe conditions you can imagine.
The actual videos of real life shootings have been a source of incredible information that was never before available. They have a broad range of consistent information that is there for us to harvest. Those that ignore the information they contain are not serving our best interests, but only their own agenda.
To point at the failings of the shooters captured on those videos is dancing in their blood. What we feel is that the present on-line systems now used are failing and it now on video for all to see and many people are embarrassed by the very public disclosure of their efforts that are failing.
It is time to stop blaming the shooter for any failures and blame the lack of basic common sense in training shooters the REALITY of self-defense and what we can do to protect ourselves.
The gun-laced snake oil now being sold is well documented to fail. We have done our best to harvest what works from those videos, interviews, and other sources.
To do so shows a huge common series of threads that are now not addressed by the target-shooting crowd of self-defense methods. In the next lesson we look at what we have seen to be true and how we can perfect our responses with those known characteristics of self-defense.
Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
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Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.