Starvin Larry

Interesting Analysis From Active Self Protection

I’ve watched about 5,000 gunfights at this point, and the patterns that emerge are pretty clear. Some thoughts you might want to consider that I don’t think that the training community really wants to hear:

1. Most gunfights aren’t entangled gunfights. Empty-handed skills are important, but very rare once the gun comes out. They’re necessary for LE more than CCW, by a long shot. For CCW, empty-handed skills are critical for the 80% of assaults that don’t rise to the level of deadly force response. So go to your martial arts training.

2. Reloads are almost vanishingly insignificant factors in gunfights. I have seen precisely 2 reloads in a real gunfight that weren’t on-duty LEO. And neither of those affected the outcome of the fight. I have seen about 7 or 8 where a higher capacity firearm or the presence of a reload might…

To our rulers :

Have you considered what you are going to do when the worth of an SS check or pension check is less than the price of a loaf of bread?  “Never happen!” you say?

On the contrary, it always happens.

That is what is so very frustrating about the progression we are on, it is a path so well-trod in history, and it is expensive in suffering people and lost opportunities for civilization’s advance. Who can doubt the system is failing?

There are too many people on all sides sowing hatred and discord. There are profoundly good and wise reasons to not do anything that could increase discord and hatred! How can that not be clear?

In an interconnected world, every bit of chaos caused by anything will cause odd ripples in different places and intensities, but so many effects that costs rise and life gradually degrades because things become too expensive…