{"id":8426,"date":"2024-07-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:23:12","slug":"gunpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/gunpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"GUNPOINT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the prevailing myths out there about armed self-defense is that you mustn\u2019t draw unless you\u2019re going to shoot. In a word, BULLSHIT! How do people who propound that crap reconcile their advice with the fact that in every single study of DGUs (defensive gun usages) the overwhelming majority end with the bad guy fleeing or surrendering without a shot being fired once the good guy or gal draws down on him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my basic classes I spend over an hour on the psychology and tactics of taking violent men at gunpoint. I\u2019ve done it dozens of times myself and never had a negative comeback from it. In several of those instances, if I hadn\u2019t drawn down on them when I did, I would probably have had to shoot them\u2026if I hadn\u2019t waited too long to make that possible, in which case I wouldn\u2019t be alive to be writing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One who agrees with me, and has seen the same BS propounded by police supervisors, is the renowned self-defense expert \u201cHock\u201d Hockheim. Here\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forcenecessary.com\/if-you-pull-you-must-shoot-otherwise-no-pull\/\" target=\"_blank\">what he has to say<\/a> on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Folks, as always, your comments (and your own experiences in this regard) are invited.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the prevailing myths out there about armed self-defense is that you mustn\u2019t draw unless you\u2019re going to shoot. In a word, BULLSHIT! How do people who propound that crap reconcile their advice with the fact that in every single study of DGUs (defensive gun usages) the overwhelming majority end with the bad guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8428,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/8428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}