Myth #2. Gun Free Zones make us safer and reduce crime.<\/strong>\u00a0It should be obvious by now that gun free zones don\u2019t make us safer. Any time you hear this argument, ask the person who makes it if they have \u201cgun free zone\u201d stickers on their cars to stop carjackings, \u201cgun free zone\u201d signs in their yards to stop home invasions, and wear \u201cgun free zone\u201d shirts and hats to stop muggings, robberies, rapes, etc.<\/p>\n If they balk, remind them that \u201cChange starts with me\u201d and that they should \u201cBe the change you want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n If \u201cgun free\u201d zones make us safer, suggest that they tell that to the Secret Service and the State Department\u2019s Bureau of Diplomatic Security. I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll change how they protect people right away.<\/p>\n The fact that “gun free zone” signs don\u2019t exist in large numbers is a tacit admission that gun haters and people who are ignorant about guns KNOW, at some level, that gun free zones don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n Equally silly is the thought that gun free zones reduce crime\u2026at best, they simply change the location.<\/p>\n Someone who intends on murdering large numbers of people will commit 5 or more misdemeanors and\/or felonies in the process of firing their first shot. Do you really think that someone intent on murdering innocent people cares about breaking 1 additional law? Do you really think that someone who intends on killing themselves or committing suicide by cop cares about additional penalties from a judge? Of course not.<\/p>\n Myth #3. <\/strong>Common sense laws will stop mass shootings.<\/strong>\u00a0We have more than 20,000 gun laws on the books in the US. What\u2019s the magic next law that will make all of the bad people stop doing bad things?<\/p>\n What kind of narcissist could possibly think that their 1 amazing piece of legislation will be more effective than the 20,000 ineffective ones that came before it.\u00a0 That’s like eating 20,000 calories and thinking that having a Tic-Tac will make a difference.<\/p>\n The only thing that would take care of gun crime would be to eliminate guns. By definition, a country with zero (not even 1 gun) guns would have zero gun crime.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve got more than 300 million guns in the US. They\u2019re not going away. If they\u2019re outlawed, then the law would disproportionately affect law abiding citizens. (remember, murderers don\u2019t care about laws or the consequences of breaking them.)<\/p>\n But if we look at how this has worked out in DC, Chicago, Australia, the UK, and other places with strict gun laws, we see that it doesn\u2019t work out well for law enforcement or the general public.<\/p>\n It DOES work out great for criminals.\u00a0 There have been 620! or so homicides in Chicago–a model city for gun control–so far this year despite the fact that there is a 90%+ chance of surviving a gunshot wound if you’re still conscious when the ambulance arrives.<\/p>\n Gun laws didn\u2019t work out well for Jews in Germany in the 30s, or minorities in ANY country throughout history that has been disarmed.\u00a0 Gun laws always hurt the weakest and poorest segments of society the quickest and hardest.<\/p>\n Look at Austria, France, and London Bridge in Great Brittan where recent Muslim extremist mass murderers ran vehicles into crowds until the cars couldn’t move any more and then got out and started stabbing the survivors.<\/p>\n Look at China\u2026in the last few years, they\u2019ve seen almost a dozen mass school stabbings and hammer attacks, including one where the attacker beat preschoolers in the head with a hammer and then lit himself on fire. Within 24 hours of the Sandy Hook attacks, one murderer stabbed 22 children in an attack in China. In another attack, 4 Muslim extremists used knives to kill 29 civilians and injure 140 others at the Kunming railway station.<\/p>\n If you want to protect innocent people from murdering criminal who are comfortable breaking laws, you need to look to another solution than more laws. A solution like the most effective way to STOP the attacker.<\/p>\n Myth #4. Locking doors, hiding, and pleading\/begging are effective strategies for stopping threats.<\/strong><\/p>\n We live in a time where we can find out an amazing amount of detail about EVERY active shooter situation that has happened in the US in recent history. We can see where these strategies were all tried and the outcome. None of them STOP the threat. They may occasionally delay death, reduce the number of innocent deaths, change who dies, or change the location of deaths, but they don\u2019t stop the threat.<\/p>\n Myth #5. Civilians With Guns Make Everyone Unsafe.<\/strong><\/p>\n I get the rational for this line of thinking.\u00a0 If a gunman enters a church and 20 people open fire on him, there’s a really good chance that innocent people will get hurt.<\/p>\n You know what?\u00a0 The history of relatively untrained civilians taking out mass murderers in crowded venues has played out very differently over the years.<\/p>\n MOST armed people have a lag (freeze) that lasts several seconds in an active shooter situation as they cycle through disbelief, acceptance, deciding what action to take, and taking that action.<\/p>\n In the West Freeway Church of Christ shooting, several draw strokes didn’t even start until after Jack Wilson had already solved the problem.<\/p>\n Life’s not simple, clean, or neat.\u00a0 It’s messy and complicated.\u00a0 But historically we can see that good guys with guns shoot more bad guys than they shoot innocents.<\/p>\n And in a mass shooting situation a good guy with a gun MIGHT accidentally shoot in innocent bystander in the process of stopping the bad guy.\u00a0 Law enforcement MIGHT accidentally shoot an innocent bystander in the process of stopping the bad guy.\u00a0 But we know, without a doubt, that if the bad guy isn’t stopped, he’ll keep shooting innocent people until he’s stopped.<\/p>\n The reality of a chaotic life and death shooting situation is that misses happen.<\/p>\n As a responsible gun owner, what you need to do is do everything in your power to minimize your misses through training…training your mind to handle stress, training your eyes to see more and see quicker, and training your technique so that your reflexive performance level is as high as possible.<\/p>\n You see, when you’ve got time to think through the process, it’s easy to make accurate shots at close range with a pistol.<\/p>\n But when you’re shooting at a speed where you can’t think through all of the details, you’re going to rely on neural pathways (muscle memory) and your performance is going to depend on the quality of your practice up to that point.<\/p>\n That’s why it’s SO important to do a few minutes of dry fire practice, at least a few days a week.<\/p>\n And one of the most powerful training systems available for high speed, chaotic self-defense shooting is this<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s easier than going to the range, cheaper than going to the range, and it’s actually more effective than doing the majority of your training with live fire.\u00a0 And if you’re willing to spend about the same amount of time practicing at home that most people spend standing in line for coffee, you can develop top 1% gun handling skills at a fraction of the cost as what it would take with live fire.\u00a0 Learn more now, and see the new bonuses by clicking >HERE<\/strong><\/a><<\/p>\n Thoughts? 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