Personal Safety, Home Defense Fundamentals, and Concealed Carry
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NC CONCEALED CARRY HANDGUN TRAINING COURSE - APRIL 12, 2025 @ 8:00 A.M.
SAFETY FIRST!
PREFDEF COUNTERSTEP: is a term that combines the concepts of preparedness and defense to describe actions taken to either avoid potential conflict or respond effectively when no other options are safely available. Here's a breakdown:
Pref (Prefense): This involves active situational awareness and measures to avoid conflict.
Def (Defense): This refers to actions taken when conflict cannot be avoided or de-escalated. Concealment and cover are used to prevent great bodily harm or imminent threat of death while seeking to escape.
Counterstep: This is the final measure when preventive steps have failed, involving the use of adequate force to neutralize an imminent threat of death or grave bodily injury to oneself, family, or other innocent persons.
PREFDEF COUNTERSTEP represents a holistic approach to personal safety and home defense, ensuring individuals are prepared to protect themselves and their loved ones.
"Even if you don't like violence; even if you don't see yourself in a position where you might have to fight for something; you should be able to defend yourself."
SSG Patrick Terry, a unit Supply Sergeant with the 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson's Combatives Team, is an All-Army Feather Weight Champion for two years, consecutively.
Welcome!
Welcome!
You may have asked yourself as well as others, why is it necessary that you receive education and training with personal or home defense implements such as firearms? This is not only a common question, but a very good question for which you should earnestly seek an answer. Additionally, you will do well by seeking such answers from someone intricately familiar with the subject matter from a holistic perspective, while keeping in mind that no two situations are the same. It's not "cookie-cut" and there is no "one size fits all" as it pertains. There is more to consider than just the implement, or the right to keep and bear such an implement.
Concisely, as a generic, it is necessary to receive education and training with, or in regard to anything for which you are inadeptly or woefully unfamiliar, if for no other reasons than a strong regard for personal safety, the safety of others, or to ensure the responsible exercise of knowledge, skill, proficiency, and confidence to achieve positive or intended outcomes.
There is no mystique associated with personal, or home defense implements such as oleoresin capsicum (OC) sprays, or electronic immobilizing devices (EID), to include firearms. These are well-known implements. Singularly, the firearm is used for various purposes such as recreation (healthy competition), wildlife sportsman's events; and yes, for personal protection and home defense, or in the defense of another innocent person.
Conversely, such implements in the hands of the unskilled, unprepared, unaware, or the uncaring can result in unintended, or irreparable harm to its user, others, or property. In truth, it's not just about the implement or the proficiency therewith; it's also about the temperament, mindset, training, discipline, and character of its possessor that can make a huge bit of difference.
The aim of holistic education is to infuse the student with crucial knowledge, igniting a heightened sense of awareness, and to instill discipline for personal governance. Training, while in partnership with education will demand full physical articulation of applications through mechanical movement and repetition of the technical aspects of fundamentals so as to forge them into neuropathways thereby establishing what is commonly referred to as "muscle-memory."
Suffice it to say, holistic education and training will afford, empower and enable the greatest possibility for proper response and positive outcomes. The ability to act with reasonableness, responsibleness, and discretion; aiding the response to critical incidents more appropriately and importunately when situations call for rational thinking, profound decision-making, and right actions when stretched by extreme measures or circumstance all stem from one's education and training.
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Keep Yourself & Family Safe
SAFETY FIRST!
Incorporate These 4 Universal Firearm Safety Rules
ONE. Treat all firearms as if they are always loaded, and always perform a clearance check every time you pick one up!
ONE. Treat all firearms as if they are always loaded, and always perform a clearance check every time you pick one up!
Most firearms "accidents" occur with a firearm that the user swore was unloaded.
TWO. Never point your gun at anything you are not willing to destroy!
TWO. Never point your gun at anything you are not willing to destroy!
Always ensure your firearm is pointed in a direction that can serve as a backstop if the firearm were to discharge.
THREE. Keep your finger OFF the trigger and outside of the trigger guard until you are on target and have made the decision to shoot!
THREE. Keep your finger OFF the trigger and outside of the trigger guard until you are on target and have made the decision to shoot!
Until these criteria are met, your trigger finger should be straight and placed firmly on the frame of the firearm.
FOUR. Always be sure of your target and what's beyond or around it!
FOUR. Always be sure of your target and what's beyond or around it!
You must POSITIVELY identify your target, or you MUST NOT shoot.
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