by admin | Jul 16, 2018 | awareness, confidence, Grant Cunningham, Home Security, Members, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Travel Safety, Unarmed Defense
No matter what the preparedness focus, be it just self defense or a full-blown disaster, in the back of everyone’s mind is a little voice that wonders if they’re not being just a little silly. “After all”, the little voice says, “you’re spending a lot of your time,...
by admin | Jul 4, 2018 | Blog Stuff, Grant Cunningham, Members
Our country was founded on what was, at the time, a unique idea: that people have rights, and that their government should respect and defend those rights. One of the things our founding fathers left unsaid — perhaps because they thought it so obvious that it didn’t...
by admin | Jul 2, 2018 | awareness, Claude Werner, Defensive Shooting, Grant Cunningham, instructors, Members, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, realistic, security, snake oil, Street Smarts, Unarmed Defense
A few weeks back I wrote an article on why I don’t entertain the notion of “what-if” scenarios. If you haven’t read it, you should. On a somewhat related note, I also don’t entertain the notion of the foregone conclusion scenario. It’s the one that presupposes a...
by admin | Jun 25, 2018 | Grant Cunningham, instructors, integrity, Members, mythbusting, Personal Safety, Prepping, Training Talk
Believe it or not, the job I do isn’t actually all that pleasant. I’ve run into a lot of people who tell me they’d “love” to have my job; they tell me that “it must be fun”. They see the travel, or focus on the guns and shooting, without thought to what those things...
by admin | Jun 20, 2018 | awareness, CCW, Current Events, Defensive Shooting, Forgotten Weapons, Grant Cunningham, Greg Ellifritz, Incident Analysis, Members, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Defense Network, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, security, Street Smarts, Training Talk, Travel Safety
It’s another Hump Day, and I’m here to share some more great personal defense and preparedness articles with you. (Which is actually redundant, because personal defense is but one form of preparedness, though not everyone realizes that — yet!) “People don’t plan...
by admin | Jun 18, 2018 | Grant Cunningham, Home Security, Hunting, Members, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, realistic, snake oil, Street Smarts
Why do so many survival kit suggestions have fishing gear in them? Over the years I’ve noticed that survival/escape/bugout/get-home kit contents always seem to include fishing gear. I don’t mean poles, reels, and aluminum boats with fish-finding radar, but hooks,...
