PRACTICE WITH YOUR GUN! Don’t just buy it and expect to be able to do anything with it in a crunch.
I always add, learn how to treat a bullet wound and have kit to do so.
This is important for when something unthinkable or even an accident happens. Carrying a flat-packed tourniquet with your weapon can save your life if it misfires through your leg, or a ricochet hits you. In my case it helped when I had to defend myself against a group of people acting hostile. I drew, they didn’t back off, one charged and took a shot through the arm and collapsed holding his arm. His friends ran away, likely thought he was dead. I stopped the bleeding until the ambulance got there. The cops met him at the hospital (GSWs get reported). I didn’t have any legal fallout or problems from the police. They said it was clearly self-defense and I put myself at risk helping the guy.
Boring anecdote, I know, but it matters. I am not gonna advocate for altruisticly saving a Nazi/MAGA that you defend yourself from, but it can benefit you in a system rigged against you. Or it can save YOUR life if you both get a shot off and your aim is true, while the other person hits you in a limb.
Also, it just doesn’t hurt having more people with critical casualty care skills and kit walking around.
PRACTICE WITH YOUR GUN! Don’t just buy it and expect to be able to do anything with it in a crunch.
I always add, learn how to treat a bullet wound and have kit to do so.
This is important for when something unthinkable or even an accident happens. Carrying a flat-packed tourniquet with your weapon can save your life if it misfires through your leg, or a ricochet hits you. In my case it helped when I had to defend myself against a group of people acting hostile. I drew, they didn’t back off, one charged and took a shot through the arm and collapsed holding his arm. His friends ran away, likely thought he was dead. I stopped the bleeding until the ambulance got there. The cops met him at the hospital (GSWs get reported). I didn’t have any legal fallout or problems from the police. They said it was clearly self-defense and I put myself at risk helping the guy.
Boring anecdote, I know, but it matters. I am not gonna advocate for altruisticly saving a Nazi/MAGA that you defend yourself from, but it can benefit you in a system rigged against you. Or it can save YOUR life if you both get a shot off and your aim is true, while the other person hits you in a limb.
Also, it just doesn’t hurt having more people with critical casualty care skills and kit walking around.