Potential Danger to Non-Event, Training Pays Dividends

By John Farnam

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- From a student:

“Yesterday evening, I had to pick-up my wife at an Amtrack station in Hartford, CT.

As I waited at the rear, keeping an eye on the station as well as my car, a slovenly-dressed man turned toward me and began to approach. He muttered some sort of request for money.

At seven meters, I turned towards him, assumed my ‘interview stance,’ made eye contact, moved laterally, and loudly said:

‘Sorry sir. I can’t help you’

He stopped abruptly, apparently shocked by my crisp and practiced response. Mumbling incoherently, he turned and shuffled away.

This is the exact scenario we practiced during our training together, and this is the way I now intend to deal with all future contacts with panhandlers!

It surely worked well in this case!

I was armed, of course, but no gun was ever displayed. No threatening language. No one hurt. We unceremoniously disengaged and separated. A ‘ happy ending,’ although I know you don’t like that phrase!

You instructed us that a fight avoided is better, by far, than a fight ‘ won.’ I now …Read the Rest

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