{"id":44484,"date":"2021-07-30T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=44484"},"modified":"2021-07-30T06:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:22:30","slug":"random-musings-for-the-armed-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/30\/random-musings-for-the-armed-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Musings for the Armed Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44488\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/07\/cigar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"733\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>With &#8220;Permitless&#8221; Carry taking effect in my home state of Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/06\/16\/texas-constitutional-carry-greg-abbott\/#:~:text=The%20Texas%20Tribune-,Texans%20can%20carry%20handguns%20without%20a%20license%20or%20training%20starting,permitless%20carry%20bill%20into%20law.\">September 1st\u00a0<\/a> I had some thoughts:<\/h3>\n<h3>One of the things I learned very early on when I started carrying a gun for self-defense was that I needed to adpot a mentality of <em>Avoidance, Deterrence and De-Escalation <\/em>if I wanted to stay vertical and out of prison.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Avoid Dangerous places and Stupid People<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Deter Criminal Behavior with Acute and Constant Situational Awareness<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>De-Escalate heated situations with an apology and submissive behavior (Tuck your Ego and Temper In. Be the bigger man and Squash a Verbal altercations with an apology and move on.)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Most all of you know I am NOT a fan of Open Carry.<\/h3>\n<h3>If you are going to carry a gun for self-defense, go concealed or don&#8217;t go at all.<\/h3>\n<h3>The reasoning is simple: SURPRISE is one of the biggest advanatges the armed citizen has against a criminal, especially now in Texas when the odds are very high that every person that a criminal comes into contact with MAY BE armed!<\/h3>\n<h3>Once the criminal knows a gun is involved it changes things dramatically.<\/h3>\n<h3>It can work FOR the armed citizen (the deterrence factor) or it can work AGAINST them.<\/h3>\n<h3>Just remember: EVERY altercation you are going to be involved in there will be a GUN present, YOURS!<\/h3>\n<h3>For this reason I am a Firm believer in the armed citizen getting solid Weapon Retention Training.<\/h3>\n<h3>Going along with the Concealment MO, you might re-consider your blade carry as well.<\/h3>\n<h3>A pocket Clip folder is handy but it is also noticeable.<\/h3>\n<h3>Instead, go for a horizontal fixed blade belt carry.<\/h3>\n<h3>Lot of great options out there like the <a href=\"https:\/\/shivworkspg.com\/product\/shivworks-clinch-pick\/\">Cinch Pick.<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Something to chew on.<\/h3>\n<h3>Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With &#8220;Permitless&#8221; Carry taking effect in my home state of Texas September 1st\u00a0 I had some thoughts: One of the things I learned very early on when I started carrying a gun for self-defense was that I needed to adpot a mentality of Avoidance, Deterrence and De-Escalation if I wanted to stay vertical and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5442,3786,5445,5477,389,390,391,398,399,7523,7617,6468,483,402,2863,3727],"tags":[6266,4801],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}