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 p.2 #17 · travel photography/self defense | |
+1 to "you can't get enough training." In my other life as a police shrink, I can't begin to tell you that, even among our "finest," there are too few opportunities for scenario-based, under-duress training. While everyone has to begin somewhere, as Evan has so accurately said, "qualifying on a static range" just won't get it. Moreover, and this is critical, employing the defense of self-defense gets decided at hearing at which the prosecution will do their hardest to get the Judge to exclude the jury instruction as to "justification." He or she will AT THE LEAST lobby the Judge for involuntary manslaughter, more usually voluntary manslaughter (subjectively reasonable, but objectively unreasonable use of deadly force). And the foregoing applies to the USA. Good gosh only knows what standards apply in other countries (indeed, even in the USA, in some jurisdictions, you need to be prepared for a 1st degree murder charge). When this Fall my wife and I go to Paris and then drive about on day trips, I/we intend to "blend in" as much as possible, to avoid areas and times which invite potential nefarious scrutiny ( ), and, when it's all said and done, I fully intend to be the "weapon." 
Sorry for the long-winded post, but I know whereof I speak, grasshoppers, with well over 1000 hours of training in the use of deadly force. I am licensed to carry in 36 states, and in 2 I don't even need a CCW, so, this is also not a post about not employing the means for effective self-defense. It is a post about recognizing that if you do use deadly force, and if you survive the first encounter, you still have, again, in the USA, the requirement to survive the second, judicial encounter. About 10% of those who have used fully justifiable deadly force are now serving substantial sentences because they were not prepared for the second encounter. Couple of useful websites are: www.massadayoobgroup.com, http://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org/ and http://www.strategosintl.com/ (full disclosure requires that I tell you that I am on the training/consulting staff of all three organizations; however, I donate both my time and my expenses, and receive no financial payment from them, although I am offered the opportunity to train with them without tuition cost to me).
I hope this is helpful, and I intend no disrespect to folks who have a different view.
tony
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