WHAT THE HELL? Current TERRIBLE State Of Firearms Training ("AND STUPID CRAP SAID ON THE INTERNET")
Panteo Productions posted this video up. Dave Spaulding of Handgun Combatives makes some good points about the state of firearms training. He points out the ridiculousness of Gear Gap. Like the Missile Gap, the Gear Gap is the perception of what latest gear you think you need. Dave also mentions the fallacy that a handgun instructor needs to have been a special operations operator in order to teach proper handgun fighting. Dave Spaulding mentions that Law Enforcement are better trained since they primarily use handguns. While some of that is true, it is also true that LE are under trained and some of them that do not train other than to qualify.
This video follows up a blog post Dave wrote back in February. Click Here to check it out.
Phil Note: Dave as I watched your video I wanted to start clapping. I couldn’t agree more with darn near every point you made!
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The only thing I can say is train at least once a year in a reputable class, compete once a month to stay sharp, and practice once a week to not get dull. Even just one box of ammunition a week is enough to keep the muscle memory and not let the skills go to waste.
In Toronto, Canada, the former Police Commissioner (and private gun owner,) Norm Gardner, owned a bakery. One day an idiot decided to hold it up. Our Commissioner walked out and put one round into the guy's knee. Surrender was instant, making a deadly follow-up shot unnecessary. No mag-dump into the center-of-mass, just the cool head that came with his confidence to hit exactly where he wanted. Practice. Naturally, the commissioner was savaged by the press and sacrificed by the politicians. Ironically the only complaint that stuck was him honing his skills on the police range when he was in fact a civilian.