by Grant Cunningham | Aug 14, 2019 | attacks, awareness, Incident Analysis, integrity, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, realistic, Training & Teaching, Unarmed Defense
Welcome to your Hump Day Reading List! This is your refuge from the impersonal Google and FaceBook algorithms that seem to run our lives these days. Instead of a machine deciding what you’ll see, I personally go out and look for great articles that actually...
by Grant Cunningham | Jul 19, 2019 | Handguns, Holster & Carry Methods, integrity, mythbusting, Personal Safety, realistic
People very often refer to concealed carry as a “lifestyle”. I’m not sure I can agree with that. A lifestyle is a behavioral pattern which expresses how someone sees him or herself, and how they want others to see them. Their activities, opinions, and even how...
by Grant Cunningham | Jul 17, 2019 | integrity, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, Training & Teaching
Welcome to the Hump Day Reading List! Here are what I believe to be the three most important articles you can read this week to enhance your personal and family safety: This week in Defense and Training: Misinformation in the training world I’ve...
by Grant Cunningham | Jul 12, 2019 | integrity, mythbusting, negative outcomes, practice, Training & Teaching
Much has been written about (and many arguments started over) the value of competitive shooting for the person who owns or carries a firearm for personal defense. There are generally two polarized views in this manufactured controversy. The first states that a...
by Grant Cunningham | Jun 21, 2019 | attacks, awareness, Incident Analysis, integrity, negative outcomes, Personal Safety, reading list, realistic
This is a sobering tale, and I share it for a lesson that’s not immediately obvious. Concealed Carrier vs. Armed Robber The story is relatively simple: Mr. Miller was at his son’s house looking at a plumbing problem. His son was not home at the time, but...
by Grant Cunningham | Jun 7, 2019 | instructors, integrity, mythbusting, Training & Teaching
If, by “expert”, you mean someone with a significant amount of first-hand experience in the activity (i.e., shooting people who attacked them) . Here’s the dirty little secret no one in this business will admit to: none of us have enough — in most cases any —...
