Posted June 22, 2018 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Every year, thousands of people flock to various gun schools throughout the nation. Still others mass at their local ranges to attend classes with traveling instructors. The firearm training industry is thriving, with millions of dollars flowing to various instructors each and every year, all in the belief that the classes will help students stay alive in a violent confrontation.

However, most of those students don’t realize they’re getting only part of the picture.

Firearm instructors often talk about self-defense, for obvious reasons. After all, the students are there to learn how to defend themselves with a firearm. It’s an important skill and knowledge is one of those things you never have enough of.

The problem is that so many instructors focus on the shooting that they completely ignore the rest of the equation. There are subjects that probably need to be addressed by trainers, but are often completely ignored. Here are a few that I believe get ignored far too often.

1. Physical Fitness

First, roughly 66 percent of the American public is overweight or obese. Based on who I see at gun-related events, the firearm community is at least “boasting” a similar percentage. I’m not casting blame here. I’m in that larger camp …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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