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    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Training Principles Collection eShort: Follow Jeff Cooper as he showcases top defensive handgun training tips & techniques. Learn the principles, mindset, drills & skills needed to succeed.
    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Training Principles Collection eShort: Follow Jeff Cooper as he showcases top defensive handgun training tips & techniques. Learn the principles, mindset, drills & skills needed to succeed.
    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Training Principles Collection eShort: Follow Jeff Cooper as he showcases top defensive handgun training tips & techniques. Learn the principles, mindset, drills & skills needed to succeed.
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    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Training Principles Collection eShort: Follow Jeff Cooper as he showcases top defensive handgun training tips & techniques. Learn the principles, mindset, drills & skills needed to succeed.

    By David Fessenden

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    In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden covers defensive handgun definitions, guncraft history, Jeff Cooper's ideas on self-defense, legal considerations for CCW and combat mindset.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440234323
    Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Training Principles Collection eShort: Follow Jeff Cooper as he showcases top defensive handgun training tips & techniques. Learn the principles, mindset, drills & skills needed to succeed.

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      Gun Digest's Defensive Handgun Training Principles Collection eShort - David Fessenden

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      Defensive Handgun Training Principles Collection

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      The essence of defensive handgun skills is simply this: you do not have to be a victim!

      The Definition of Defensive Handgun Skills

      Before we can explore the realm of defensive handgun skills, we need to agree on a definition of what this art form truly is. Bear in mind that we must work within the confines of the legal constraints imposed by many state legislatures.

      Most of the 38-odd states that have passed shall-issue concealed carry laws all have varying clauses in each statute. One common thread in each is that you have the right to protect your life and that of your family, and your property, from the threat of serious bodily harm and/or death. Pretty basic stuff, that! Therein lies the essence of our definition: you do not have to be a victim.

      My rationale for defensive guncraft goes as follows: you have the right to use a weapon (handgun, long gun or edged weapon) in the lawful protection of your life and that of your family. It may be used as a deterrent or as lethal force, if the assailant launches a lethal and violent attack.

      It follows, then, that the definition of defensive handgun skills is simply this: they are the means of using a weapon (hand gun, long gun or edged weapon) in the lawful protection of your life and that of your family. Now this definition has not been pulled from some other publication or author’s work. It is mine and comes from my study, research, teaching and thoughts about the various state laws and their application to our Constitution.

      Familiarity and proficiency with your chosen weapon are only half the requirement. You must also be aware of, and observe, all applicable laws governing concealed carry in your state.

      One note, at this point: several anti-gun states still cling to the silly notion that the potential victim must demonstrate to an attacker that he has retreated to a position of being less of a threat to said attacker. Now this doesn’t make a lot of sense. Currently, several states have stricken this clause from their statutes in favor of the potential victim, in the form of what is now being called Stand Your Ground laws. Finally, some of these state legislatures at least get it! Remember that you and you alone are responsible for knowing all applicable laws dealing with personal protection in the state in which you reside.

      We know that law enforcement cannot always be there in our time of greatest peril, so we must train to prepare ourselves for this eventuality, should it ever occur. We have to train so as to confine our responses within the legal limits imposed by each individual statute. You see, concealed carry weapon (CCW) laws are all double edged. They provide the law-abiding citizen with the legal tools needed to provide for his or her own protection, but they demand that he or she act with great restraint and stay within this narrow band of responsibility in regard to a criminal who is intent on doing bodily harm.

      If the CCW permit holder operates within these limits of force, identifies each level of danger and escalation by his assailant, and applies the appropriate measured response and survives the encounter, then he or she may still have to face the legal system in his or her community in a civil action, as deemed necessary under the law, by the district attorney.

      The CCW permit comes with a tremendous and awesome responsibility to react to a threat with a controlled response that is

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