Therefore, as responsible gun owners, we should be prepared for this eventuality and, in particular, the physical and psychological effects which can directly impact our performance and decision-making under stress.
Ideally, each of us has already adopted the principles of personal security and situational awareness covered in the previous three articles into our everyday lives and have proactively made ourselves hard targets. But even with this being the case, we still may be faced with an imminent threat to our lives, to which we now need to act.
Our reactive ‘hard skills’ (weapon skills, techniques, and tactics) should be well-honed to a degree commensurate with the potential of facing such threats. We should have, at least to some degree, seen the situation unfolding and not be caught completely off-guard.
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