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Training to shot should be required, but its not that simple when the damn target shoots back, and that target score goes from 98 at the range to 50 in the street...

teaching a man to shoot is easy, teaching a man to kill can be all but impossible and you never know that reaction until it happens and thats the rest of the story

“Man fights with his mind. His hands and his weapons are simply extensions of his will, and one of the fallacies of our era is the notion that equipment is the equivalent of force.”

- Jeff Cooper

I have taught hundreds of Law Enforcement officers and others how to defend themselves.

That is the easy part.

Getting them to follow through and take their lessons to heart is another matter.

As I said many times before it doesn't matter military, Law enforcement, civilian.

90 percent never follow up on their training, 7 percent will do a bit more.

3 percent are your warriors who train train and train some more.

My first issue gun was a S&W mod 10 with the El Paso Texas Police dept, After a number of officers were shot they were forced to go to the 357, but they sure took there damn time about it.

A young agent once asked me how I worked undercover wearing boots and a hat and packing an old colt single action for instance when all the drug guys, even cartel were so different. Most every deal I worked on undercover at some point in a buy the bad guys said "The one thing Im sure of is with that old pistol and your dress your not the man" The agent said, that never occurred to me, they never told us that in school. neither did the movies!