Book Review: Fighting Smarter by Tom Givens

By Tim

Apparently June of this year set new records for firearms sales. I’ve mentioned before that I have encountered a surprising number of people with a very recent interest in buying a gun and self defense in general. The sales numbers would seem to indicate that my experience is not exactly novel…but where do those newbies begin? Self defense is a rather complicated matter requiring knowledge and training in several different disciplines. Some of those disciplines are sufficiently deep that you could spend your entire adult life chasing mastery of them. Wouldn’t it be lovely, then, if someone compiled the majority of the information you absolutely need to know from relevant disciplines into a single easily digestible resource?

Drawing on his decades of experience as a police officer and instructor for tens of thousands of students, Tom Givens has done exactly that in the latest edition of his book Fighting Smarter: A Practical Guide for Surviving Violent Encounters.

The book is organized into Fourty chapters, but the book itself is only 318 pages long. Each chapter is concisely constructed around a single …read more

Source:: Gun Nuts Media