Thought I would share this piece I just wrote for the Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network E-journal. It seems relevant to this forum.
Marty
http://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org/...-december-2013
Thought I would share this piece I just wrote for the Armed Citizens' Legal Defense Network E-journal. It seems relevant to this forum.
Marty
http://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org/...-december-2013
A good link , thanks.
As Jeff Cooper observed years and years ago, the key is mindset.If someone's a trained, educated shooter, their mindset will be much better then the unprepared when theres a bump at three AM. With competence comes confidence, and confidence ensures no legally questionable decisions happen at the brink.
And here I was assuming that a firm understanding of use of force rules combined with scenario training that forced one to apply those rules in unfamiliar situations under compressed time conditions and stress prevented legally questionable actions "at the brink"...
The less you are thinking about what to do to handle the tactical/skills portion of the situation, the more you can apply attention to the situation itself - you still need to know what is and is not permitted, and how to apply that info to the situation at hand.
Confidence isn't what gets you through. Competence is what does it.
Except when Bad Things Happen, there isn't much time for any organized thought about legality.Either you mentally are prepared for the situation via advanced, previous training-or you're not. The confidence stems from competence-you cannot have one without the other.
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man