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2015-04-04 -Land of the Free

This Week In Guns, April 4th, 2015

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Posted by badanov 2015-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 First, congratulations Kansas.
Second, be prepared for a media shitstorm.

I would like to comment that there are a lot of things this bill does not do:
It does not make you have to ask permission from the local sheriff to CC.
It does not put you into a state registary for the local PD to bring up when they run your plates.
It does not make you submissive to your local politicians, and yes there are those places in Kansas, looking at you Douglas County.

It also does not:
Let you carry in places explicitly stating No Firearms.
Let you just shoot somebody without reason.
Disrespect LEOs.
CC in any other state.
Immune to the basic safety functions of a firearm.
Give you Wyatt Earp superpowers.

Train up.
Take the CC class as it goes over proper behavior and recognition of Laws.
Practice, preferably with a certified instructor.
Practice some more.
Did I say practice?
Practice - the first time you drove wasn't rush hour in St Louis? Same thing, learn the tool, and if you are not comfortable, don't carry. Period. You can make a situation so, so much worse.

There was in my humble opinion a great TV series called Best Defense which gave very approachable situations and reactions to self defense. I would suggest a person with a budding interest in self defense start there, and I would also suggest that if that show makes you uncomfortable, then don't carry. Awareness is your best defense. Second is your belief system - friend and his current GF were in Wichita clubbing. Gaggle of dudes harassed him in his truck. He had a pistol and told them to F.O. They did because he was serious, confident, and would have defended himself. In conjunction, we had some meth problems in town, wife and kids came back from the groceries to find the back door open. I could respond faster than a phone call and came home, had to clear the house, and had to be prepared every door and every under-bed etc. I had to be prepared to live with any consequences whether law or conscience well beforehand because there it not the time or luxury to do so in the moment - that is work time. I am not billy badass, I was assigned and accepted the role of emergency prepardness in the family, and that is one aspect of it - one second I'm at work balancing the checkbook, two minutes later, well, it wasn't entertaining, there was no dramatic music, it wasn't fun. Practice. I had a plan, I knew where everything was, and my plan went to shit almost immediately. Practice.

Self defense, and the confidence it creates and takes, is very empowering. Approach the good side of it, the honorable side. Depending on who you ask, remember the 10/15 yard rule that a bad guy can get you in that range before you can unholster, so learn some moves to buy you time and defend yourself, even simple things like keeping an object between yourself and the attacker.

Fighting the jiggles was not something I was necessarily born with. First fire call was grand adventure until I got there. Did stupid stuff. The good news is jiggle control can be learned. With practice and the right mentality.

/$0.02, additions or point & laughs always appreciated.

I have not yet attended, but the infomercial I saw sold me, or more accurately, plans for the kids:
Project Appleseed

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-04 12:13|| 2015-04-04 12:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Good advice swksvolFF.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-04-04 18:18|| 2015-04-04 18:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Ditto

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-04 18:38|| 2015-04-04 18:38|| Front Page Top

#4 The Decree Aimed at the Struggle with Makhnovism inside the Republic

Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Aleksandr Zakharchenko issued a Decree, in accordance with which all persons, who are not the workers of law-enforcing bodies, should turn in arms in their possession before April 4.
As the Ministry of Defense of the DPR says, such measures are necessary for the establishment of law and order in the territory of the Republic.

“The obligation to carry out the measures in detention, disarmament and isolation of the persons, who will fail to obey the order, was imposed on the Minister of the Interior of the DPR”, the Decree says.

The individuals, who have failed to follow the demand to turn in the arms in the given term, will be acknowledged “members of armed gangs” and against them disarmament (liquidation) by way of special operations and ensuing criminal proceeding will be used in accordance with the DPR legislation in effect.

“We appeal to the citizens to provide active civil cooperation in informing of the representatives of military command about fact of violation of the requirements of the Decree. The reception of arms and ammunition will be carried out on the premises of the Military Commandant office”, – the reports says.

Workers of law-enforcing structures of the DPR will carry out measures aimed at disarmament. In order to turn in arms one should take them to the local military commandant’s office; there people will also be able to tell the officials about the incidents of the Decree violation.
The Decree on disarmament was issued by the Head of the DPR due to the necessity of law enforcement in the territory of the Republic and prevention of increase in crime.

The implementation of the Decree is aimed at rooting out of Makhnovism, which is characterized by the existence of various partisan groups that do not act under the law.

Unfortunately, n conditions of warfare this is not a rare phenomenon. One should not mistake such actions of the government for repressions aimed against field commanders and war heroes. All those, who had signed the contract and were enlisted in the DPR Army, will keep on fighting with arms in their hands and defend the Republic whenever the need arises. Arms, registered as hunting weapons, will not be confiscated if their owners have the license.

The Decree implies liquidation of illegal armed formations. Nothing prevents them from becoming legal, if their intention is to defend the Republic. They must take the oath and become the defenders of the DPR on legal ground.
Of course, they will have to obey orders: for example, no to succumb to the enemy’s provocations, not to open fire in response to them, not to take independent decisions in combat. Militiamen are to become soldiers in the proper sense of the word. A soldier is not engaged in politics, a soldier is obeying orders. Those, who become soldier, will not be disarmed.

Posted by badanov 2015-04-04 18:49|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-04-04 18:49|| Front Page Top

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