Many gun control advocates believe that only two types of folks have guns—cops and criminals. I grew up in New York City where this was and still is the prevailing view. People who believe that non-sworn citizens should not be allowed to own guns also tend to believe that anyone who owns a gun and [...]
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Hoplophobia is a Real Problem
Posted in gun control, Gun Rights, Personal Defense, Politics, RKBA, second amendment, tagged aichmophobia, American Psychiatric Association, androphobia, anxiety, arachnophobia, clinical psychologist, cops, criminals, cynophobia, defense mechanisms, dentophobia, diagnostic criteria, disorders, dog phobia, DSM, DSM-IB-TR, DSM-V, entomophobia, fear, fear of dentists, fear of ideas, fear of insects, fear of men, fear of spiders, First Amendment, gun control, guns, handguns, hoplophobia, ideophobia, irrational fears, mental disorders, murderous rage, needle phobia, New York City, ophidiophobia, phobias, projection, psychological defense mechanisms, psychotherapy, rage, second amendment, snake phobia, unconscious rage on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Preventing Carjackings and Abductions
Posted in Armed Senior Citizen, Crime Prevention, Deadly Force, Defensive handgun, Handgun Training, Personal Defense, Public Safety, Tactics, Training, Women's Self Defense, tagged 911, abductions, car jackers, car jackings, carjackers, carjackings, cell phone, concealed firearms, criminal predators, criminals, Deadly Force, fender bender, fixed blade, folding knife, forcible felonies, forcible felony, high powered pistol, hit first, hits, justification for deadly force, kidnappings, lethal force, modus operandi, motor vehicle accidents, pepper spray, Philadelphia, practiced weapons skills, rear ending, refuse to be a victim, reload, SUV, tactical flashlight, victim, weapons skills on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, in the Philadelphia suburbs, a middle aged woman called 911 and frantically reported that she and her daughter had been abducted from their SUV by two men who drove their Cadillac into her SUV. When she called, the woman claimed that she and her daughter were in the kidnappers’ trunk. The incident was reported all over the news. [...]
