Marko has a well meaning but misinformed post in favor people carrying guns. The early UFC matches didn’t have weight classes and the big guys didn’t always win. Smaller trained fighters routinely prevail against larger untrained fighters. Regardless, professional criminals are armed criminals and gun control isn’t going to change that. I am all for armed citizens, but it has nothing to do with disparities in size or training.
Tag: concealed carry
Guns in Restaurants and Bars
Posted by – June 5, 2009
Rustmeister has a clever business card to be dropped off at restaurants in Tennessee sporting the “No Guns” signs. I think this is a great idea. Going one step further: make several designs with or without links to firearms organizations. If a business owner gets ten identical cards he will assume he is being spammed by a small number of people. If he gets ten different cards it might make him realize the amount of business he is missing out on.
I live in a state where you are allowed to carry your concealed firearm into restaurants that serve alcohol and you are allowed to drink. You are prohibited from carrying a firearm into any areas of the restaurant (such as the bar) that are off limits to people under 21. Strangely this doesn’t seem to generate any sort of “wild-west” behavior. The nightclub shootings seem to center around areas of high gang and drug activity (to include “underage” dance clubs.)
Armed Students
Posted by – April 13, 2009
Snowflakes in hell has some analysis of the 20/20 piece “If I only had a gun”
A couple of quick thoughts:
The police don’t normally get as much training as the show says they do. Typically, basic law enforcement training is 720 class hours. This includes all of the law, driving, procedures, and firearms training. In my state the firearms portion of this is about 40 hours. I don’t know that they teach some zen-like control of heart rate.
Active Shooters don’t tend to be trained firearms instructors. While some active shooters have gone to the range and practiced with their guns, none of the recent ones that I know of were trained shooters.
Armed students wouldn’t always sit in the same seat in the classroom. From the video it appears that the defensive shooter was always seated in the same spot in the classroom.
There is no guarantee that there is only one defensive shooter. In the general population of my state roughly one person in twenty has a concealed weapons permit. I can’t speak to what is a normal class size, but I don’t recall many courses where we only had roughly eighteen or twenty students.
Some people in the classroom might have more training than law enforcement. There are a lot of students and teachers in colleges right now that have recent combat experience. For many of these people the active shooter scenario wouldn’t even be the second gunfight they were ever in.
Stupid Gun Inventions: The Small Of the Back Holster
Posted by – April 9, 2009
This is least concealable, least comfortable, least retainable, and one of the most unsafe holster designs ever.
First and foremost drawing the pistol without flagging yourself and everyone else is pretty darn difficult. Additionally when your draw stroke requires you to place yourself in an armbar (i.e. the hammer lock) to get your pistol out you should probably re-think your gear.
Re-holstering is a nightmare, because your support hand is probably going to need to clear the concealment garment out of the way, and we kick off the chain of events known as the “two handed re-holster” and a gunshot wound to the support hand.
That bump at the small of your back will print in any position other than standing upright. All holsters will print in some specific circumstances, but unlike other holsters there really isn’t a way to camouflage this with an arm or a hand.
Having a lump of metal at the base of your spine will make sitting uncomfortable and the gun very difficult to access from a seated position. Falling (or getting thrown) on to your back will only make your chiropractor and your assailant happy. In a fight that goes to the ground you are going to have a very hard time getting to the gun from a supine position.
Retaining the holstered pistol is going to be tough because it is much harder to get a hand on the gun for the wearer than it is for an assailant that is approaching from behind. That hammer-lock draw stroke isn’t going help either.
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