When Seconds Count

[WinterBoarder]

I came across this article and thought I would share. I particularly like the list of what one can expect, even after a justifiable self-defense shooting.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-819112

[rocktot]

You should have shooters insurance, its like $150.00 a year.

[sellersm]

You should have shooters insurance, its like $150.00 a year.

Care to elaborate? details? Link[s]?

[Bailey Guns]

nra.org

[Bailey Guns]

The training reinforced what I already knew: handguns are designed and made for one purpose only – to kill people. I was being trained to shoot and kill my fellow humans.

That quote pretty much turned me off from the remainder of the article. That, and how the author thinks he's a total badass now because he's been to one class at Front Sight.

But yes...the list of post-shooting issues was pretty good.

[Pancho Villa]

I find the psychological problems he lists to be odd.

Has there ever been a study of civilian self-defense shooters having a great-than-normal occurrence of this?

I have never shot a man, but I know a couple of people who killed men trying to rob them at knifepoint, and neither of them had issues. Sleep soundly, glad they were able to defend themselves, etc. And I know Cooper wrote extensively that the main emotional response he heard from people involved in self defense shootings was pride, not nightmares or psychological issues.

Where does this come from? Is it a fiction perpetuated by the rabbit press, or is there some actual truth to it?

[Great-Kazoo]

I find the psychological problems he lists to be odd.

Has there ever been a study of civilian self-defense shooters having a great-than-normal occurrence of this?

I have never shot a man, but I know a couple of people who killed men trying to rob them at knifepoint, and neither of them had issues. Sleep soundly, glad they were able to defend themselves, etc. And I know Cooper wrote extensively that the main emotional response he heard from people involved in self defense shootings was pride, not nightmares or psychological issues.

Where does this come from? Is it a fiction perpetuated by the rabbit press, or is there some actual truth to it?

Pm sent

[Singlestack]

One other option is ACLDN (Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network) - about $80 a year, and you get a break for multi-year signup. Ran by Marty and Gila Hayes, who are former associates of Mas Ayoob and I think Mas is affiliated with them in some fashion.

Singlestack

[Pancho Villa]

One other option is ACLDN (Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network) - about $80 a year, and you get a break for multi-year signup. Ran by Marty and Gila Hayes, who are former associates of Mas Ayoob and I think Mas is affiliated with them in some fashion.

Singlestack

I'm wary. Ayoob has gotten people killed with his nonsense. Not sure I want to send money to anyone affiliated with him.

[cstone]

I enjoyed the irony of the author posting their location as Berkley, CA. If liberals in Berkley are writing about their need for CCW, then gun owners everywhere should be a little proud that the message is making it into the deepest recesses of academic liberalism.

The battle is not won, but this does give me a glimmer of hope.

I also liked the "Gun Control" slogan on the back of the young lady's shirt.

"Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an ally, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose is somehow morally superior to a woman expaining to the police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."