Taking It All For Granted

From your Instructor a word or two on Taking It All For Granted

Hi folks thought I’d get a few of these done before I get busy and have to lay off a little for the Holidays and upcoming work requirements.

 I finally heard from NASA/JSC. The NASA budget has delayed takeover to January and the reassessment of security/police force needs and protocols, has been dropped on the front burner since the Ft. Hood massacre. I get it but watching the government minds and bureaucracy function I liken to committing suicide with a rubber band. It takes forever. I will however take my physical and PT test in January. This requires that I walk/run 3miles in forty five minutes and do a small number of sit ups, pull ups, and push- ups. Now you ask what does this have to do with CHL newsletters?  This!  I have to prepare by practicing. At my age that is not without pain but it is necessary. 

I cannot take for granted that I’ll be hired or pass a “PT” test at my age! AND ………….. you,  can’t take for granted that you will pass the test of surviving an assault on you or against your home.

 I’ve been with more than a few of my friends and trainees when they purchased their firearms.  I have , as all know not said “buy this or that.”  I make some suggestions as to what to take a look at but I refuse to pick firearms for anybody other than myself. If you pick it for yourself you will feel more confident, and in a fight confidence should be part of your survival mindset. That said, you have all made what I consider, excellent choices and surprised me with more than a few of them. All have been excellent choices, bottom line. What have you done with your choice to ensure your survival in a lethal encounter?  If you haven’t had the money to buy something to defend yourself with that is understandable.  I know two trainees/students who went so far as to put firearms in lay-away only to cancel them because of financial problems.  BUT…..one lady said it was too expensive ($300.00 shotgun) AND …. The others ( I forgot one ) said other things kept popping up that the money was needed for and they canceled the lay-away with restock fees involved I’m sure.  Folks, I know gas is expensive and so is food and clothes for the kids, never mind the bills every month. You just can’t avoid that living expense and the money not always being there are factors. I got that, BUT ……. I DON’T GET (AND I WILL NOT CRITICIZE….AH HELL YES I WILL.) that a weekend cruise out of Galveston, a trip to the casinos in Louisiana or another piece of musical equipment was either one of those bills/necessities or in any way, shape or form, more important than your self defense and that of your home and loved ones.

 We as a group of Instructors have basically been ordered to maintain contact with our trainees by OUR instructors , at the very least with something in the form of written material like this or more hopefully with hands on training.

 “I have a super two thousand ninety nine millimeter with grenade launcher and satellite descrambler voltometer and…………. I leave it in the car…..or….it’s in the dresser…….or I’ve never fired it but it’s a good one…..or…or ….or.” You bet……YOUR LIFE…….on that or your loved ones? A wiser Instructor than said two things that I live and personally train not only you but myself by, “Ownership, does not equate to  ability.,…   and a firearm should be COMFORTING not comfortable.”

 Practice or don’t it is completely up to you. I practice to stay sharp not to prove anything. If you ever meet an Instructor who says he doesn’t need practice for himself, you have wasted your time and money with that instructor. Do you think that if you get in a fight or are assaulted in your home that the Grand Jury you will face after a deadly force incident will accept that you tell them “I took the CHL course but I just didn’t have any time to practice. Isn’t that enough?” after you shot through your house your attacker and into the house next door killing the gerbil and destroying the microwave. What do you think the attorney for the recently deceased bad guy will zero in on from your testimony, after telling your ”peers” that his clients family deserves the proceeds from the sale of your home, business, your vehicles and all of your insurance policies and savings, because he deserved to be incarcerated for sure but… KILLED? Mercilessly GUNNED DOWN in the home of a gun owner who didn’t feel the necessity or the responsibility to practice with that gun that MERCILESSLY GUNNED DOWN THEIR SONS, never giving them a chance to repay their debt to a society but instead, being the judge, jury, and executioner because “I took the CHL course” but they didn’t think they had to practice any more….ladies and gentlemen kids go wrong but should they be GUNNED DOWN FOR IT?.............

 Your Instructor the “Fastman” says “there’s that old damned perception thing again.” 
How much is your life and those of your loved ones worth?  Couple of coin? A little practice?

To me you are all priceless and so are your loved ones which is why I write and INVITE ….y’all to come to the range with me or go to the range and let me know how much fun you had.

EDDIE    your Instructor