By John Farnam
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- From a student:
“Yesterday evening, I had to pick-up my wife at an Amtrack station in Hartford, CT.
As I waited at the rear, keeping an eye on the station as well as my car, a slovenly-dressed man turned toward me and began to approach. He muttered some sort of request for money.
At seven meters, I turned towards him, assumed my ‘interview stance,’ made eye contact, moved laterally, and loudly said:
‘Sorry sir. I can’t help you’
He stopped abruptly, apparently shocked by my crisp and practiced response. Mumbling incoherently, he turned and shuffled away.
This is the exact scenario we practiced during our training together, and this is the way I now intend to deal with all future contacts with panhandlers!
It surely worked well in this case!
I was armed, of course, but no gun was ever displayed. No threatening language. No one hurt. We unceremoniously disengaged and separated. A ‘ happy ending,’ although I know you don’t like that phrase!
You instructed us that a fight avoided is better, by far, than a fight ‘ won.’ I now really understand how true that is.”
Comment:
Another “success story” that will never see the light of day in any police report, nor news headline. Yet, among competent Operators, this kind of felicitous triumph happens hundreds of times per day!
/John
About John Farnam & Defense Training International, Inc
As a defensive weapons and tactics instructor John Farnam will urge you, based on your own beliefs, to make up your mind in advance as to what you would do when faced with an imminent and unlawful lethal threat. You should, of course, also decide what preparations you should make in advance, if any. Defense Training International wants to make sure that their students fully understand the physical, legal, psychological, and societal consequences of their actions or inactions.
It is our duty to make you aware of certain unpleasant physical realities intrinsic to the Planet Earth. Mr Farnam is happy to be your counselor and advisor. Visit: www.defense-training.com