Ultra Warrior Training Is Great But ………..

It’s amazing what you find online concerning guns for the average citizen. Sometimes it comes from “warriors”, sometimes from forums (gag), sometimes it comes from (understandably) training organizations that stand to profit, and sometimes it comes from the citizen. The citizen who actually believes everything the above have posted or otherwise written online.

Here is a fact: In the vast majority of cases where a firearm is used in self defense by a civilian, it is by a person with little or no formal training. And what real life training they can get is generally limited to a gun range and whatever they can do themselves to become competent with their gun.

What’s troubling today is the online reference to training that more and more online warriors insist everybody who carries a firearm absolutely cannot do without. The kind that takes days to complete, thousands of dollars to purchase, and puts the civilian with a firearm in potential severe self defense situations, that they are required to successfully shoot themselves out of.

Now, I’m not against that type of training. For anybody who can afford the time and money expense, and has a desire to go through it, by all means go for it. What I am against is the increasingly voluminous shouting that everybody has to get this type of training or be hopelessly unprepared for survival in an emergency with their firearm. History and the volumes of people who have proven otherwise pretty much quash that notion.

Will a high end training course provide a big advantage for a firearm owner in case of a self defense emergency? It will if the emergency happens within a couple of weeks after their training. Because what is not discussed generally is that these skills are not learned sufficiently in a few days or a week, to prepare someone to permanently react as they did in the training. In other words, the skills are prone to significantly diminishing over a relatively short amount of time.

So, unless a person can come home from their training and somehow keep it up week after week, month after month, what they learned in training will be remembered, but the reaction time will diminish quickly. That’s why U.S. Special Forces personnel don’t just take initial training and then stop. They train continuously to build upon their initial skills. And they never stop as long as they are in Special Forces. If they did, their skills and physical conditioning would diminish, along with their high level of effectiveness.

So, let’s just say you can’t afford to train at the most expensive and famous facilities in the U.S. Does that mean you shouldn’t get a firearm for self defense, learn to use it, get your permit, and continue to practice as possible for your self defense needs? Not hardly. That’s the way almost every person is able to get any training at all. It doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a gun, and it doesn’t mean they will be unable to defend themselves with it.

Develop an exercise program to keep up a reasonable level of fitness. Make multiple times during the month to shoot your firearm. Shoot it standing still, moving, walking, and lying down. Shoot it by just pointing and shooting rapidly, and by aiming carefully for precision. Practice drawing it from your concealment positions and shooting it quickly for self defense. Shoot from several positions behind some kind of cover.

This is the way most people are able to train. And it’s from this type training that most civilians who successfully defend themselves do so.

Again, to be clear (because I’ll get blasted for this article), I’m not against advanced training. But it would be a serious error in judgement for anyone to believe that they should not own or carry a firearm for self defense if they are not able to undergo this type training. Too many have proved otherwise in countless self defense scenarios.

What we don’t want is a large number of people to give up on obtaining, learning to use, and carrying a firearm for self defense. And that, all because they’ve become convinced that without a $5000 training course, they can’t possibly use it competently.

Get a gun that suits you. Be responsible. Learn to use it safely and competently. Learn to shoot in various conditions and from different positions. But get it and do it …. even if you can’t train like a Navy SEAL.