GUNS: In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something!

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

FROM FACEBOOK

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Terri Dufrene

Some words to the wise. Shooting Advice from various Concealed Carry Instructors. If you own a gun, you will appreciate this. If not, you should get one and learn how to use it:

 

  • Guns have only two enemies: rust and politicians.
  • It’s always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
  • Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not you.
  • Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arms length.
  • Never say “I’ve got a gun.” If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they hear should be the safety clicking off. (I prefer the sound of a round being chambered when you load a shotgun)
  • The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes, the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.
  • The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win – cheat if necessary.
  • Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets . . . You may get killed with your own gun, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, cause it’ll be empty.
  • If you’re in a gun fight:
    1. If you’re not shooting, you should be loading.
    2. If you’re not loading, you should be moving,
    3. If you’re not moving’, you’re dead.
    In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something!
  • If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to be paranoid about? (I call it being prepared)
  • You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much a universal language. AMEN!
  • You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family.

If you believe in the 2nd Amendment, please forward.

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I remember reading that freezing occurs when the brain can’t quickly determine the best action.

Like in a crisis: 10% panic, 80% freeze or ignore it, and 10% act.

In USAF basic training, immediate obedience to orders was “DRILLED” into us.  I remember one DI yelling at another boot: “Just don’t stand there, DO <synonym for the act of procreation in real time> SOMETHING NOW!”  It made a huge impression on me. Laugh!  Scary lessons last forever?

[JR: This started off about guns and somehow got into freezing.}

https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/amanda-ripley-crisis/

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People took the time to gather books they were reading and other things. They would shut down their computers before they left. But most of all, the first thing people did was to talk to each other.

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During the FRIST WTC bombing, when the alarms went off, I was away from my office.  My second-in-command called me and said: “The alarms are going off and we have been told to ignore it.”  My first words to her were: “You evacuate our people NOW.  Ignore everything and leave PDQ.”  She responded:  “ said we can’t and won’t get paid.”  I said: “Evacuate now and I’ll take the heat.”  To which I got: “Yes SIR” in a very snotty tone, Laugh!  Later when my team was home safely, and were checking on a conference call that we always had set up, she reported that as they were leaving so was Honcho So and So. In our “after action” meeting in our “lessons learned”, it was entered on the board by her, “If an alarm sounds, evacuate first and then figure out all the other stuff.”  N.B. Mister so and so left the company about a month later with no explanations.

Not that I was smart or a great leader, I just didn’t want to kill anyone with stupidity.

“Yesterday, I learned, that when someone makes a decision based on their heart, mind, soul, and experience, — good or bad — agree or disagree, the time for me to opine, cajole or even argue is OVER. And the time for support, understanding, and “damage control” has begun.” — Ferdinand J. Reinke 2019-Sep-22. I don’t remember why I saved this quote but it seems always appropriate.

“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.

Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!

Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!

Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26

Hope this helps some one some where some time.

RETURN WITH HONOR GB GBA  (The codes “GB” and “GBA” do not have specific meanings universally recognized in POW communication. However, they may refer to specific messages or signals used by certain groups of POWs)

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GUN: “Open Carry” just makes the armed citizen a priority target

Monday, March 15, 2021

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2021/03/14/attorney-claims-open-carry-unconstitutional-n42108

Say What? Attorney Claims Open Carry Is Unconstitutional
By Cam Edwards | Mar 14, 2021 12:30 PM ET

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“For those of us in fire self-defense training circles, all you’re doing by open carrying is identifying to the potential attacker who he needs to take out first.”

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The politicians and bureaucrats have no common sense when it comes to guns.

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GUNS: The essence of “carrying”

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

http://itdontmakesense.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-i-carry.html

December 30, 2011
Why I Carry

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The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

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Or, why I would carry if it was permitted in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee!

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

The essence of the RKBA is about self-defense. From criminals acting alone or in concert as the Gooferment.

Only we’re to dumb to realize what it’s all about.

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