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    You and Guns: a Conversation: The Practicalities of Responsible Gun Ownership
    You and Guns: a Conversation: The Practicalities of Responsible Gun Ownership
    You and Guns: a Conversation: The Practicalities of Responsible Gun Ownership
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    You and Guns: a Conversation: The Practicalities of Responsible Gun Ownership

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    What is lawful self-defense and when is lethal force justified? While you alone are personally responsible for yours and your familys safety, these and other pertinent questions are often clouded with conflicting information. Author, Isabella Hunter writes a lucid and unique examination on lawful self-defense and draws on experience as an advocate for gun safety and public education.

    You and Guns: A Conversation is an introductory guide for the novice and does not require owning a firearm. Highlights include perspectives on morality and lethal confrontation, the fundamentals of firearm safety, helpful considerations for purchasing a firearm, how to find a certified instructor and what to expect when taking lessons. Hunter promotes the usefulness and necessity of having a personal plan of action for life threatening emergencies. Your initiatives and actions following could help save yours and the lives of others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 30, 2012
    ISBN9781475949599
    You and Guns: a Conversation: The Practicalities of Responsible Gun Ownership
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    Isabella Hunter

    Isabella Hunter holds a Bachelors’ Degree with an emphasis on communication. She is a writer, culinary school graduate and Real Estate Broker. Her many experiences include serving as former chairman for the Friends of the NRA, an NRA certified pistol instructor and long time concealed carry permit holder. Hunter lives part time in South Florida and travels frequently.

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      You and Guns - Isabella Hunter

      YOU AND GUNS:

      A CONVERSATION

      THE PRACTICALITIES OF

      RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP

      ISABELLA HUNTER

      iUniverse, Inc.

      Bloomington

      You and Guns: A Conversation

      The Practicalities of Responsible Gun Ownership

      Copyright © 2012 by Lisa Sullivan.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      iUniverse books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4958-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4959-9 (ebk)

      iUniverse rev. date: 10/26/2012

      Illustration by Maurilio

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Part I

      1. Police owe no duty to protect the individual

      2. Emergency Plans

      3. History of Lawful Self Defense

      Part II

      4. Propaganda, The Media and Hollywood

      5. Madd Passion

      6. Second Amendment

      7. Gun Permits 101

      Part III

      8. Kids & guns

      9. God and Guns

      10. Lethal Confrontation

      Part IV

      11. Lessons

      12. Instructors/Ranges and Storage

      13. Buying a gun

      14. Warriors

      An excerpt from On Combat, On Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs

      by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

      Acknowledgements

      You And Guns Glossary

      Notes

      For Edward

      HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY

      Lt. Col Dave Grossman.

      Preface

      You and Guns is a smart safety manual that includes everything you wanted to know about guns but were afraid to ask. No doomsday, head for the hills mentality just an informative guide promoting the usefulness of firearms and we’ve even thrown in the kitchen sink. While working with students and those interested in firearms, the most curious thing was they defied every imaginable stereotype. Never judge a book by its cover had never been truer. You and Guns is a by-product of some of these experiences and the means to offer safe gun education to a broader base of citizen’s in a simplistic, straightforward manner. You and Guns offers savvy insight on self-defense and firearm education for the novice and does not require owning a firearm in advance to be a useful and interesting guidebook. You and Guns is your kick-start on the fundamentals. If you are new to firearms, welcome. Consider this lesson #1.

      Part I

      1

      Police owe no duty to protect

      the individual

      Criminals obey gun control laws in the same manner politicians follow their oaths of office.—Anonymous

      There are 2.3 full time police officers to every one thousand citizens on average in America. Individuals relying strictly on police for their protection against crime and criminals will find this strategy has its shortcomings. In Warren v. District of Columbia two men broke into a rooming house and police were notified. The men held 3 women and a child captive. The women were terrorized, raped, robbed and beaten. The dispatcher taking the call, confirmed help was on the way however the women were held captive for fourteen hours. In the lawsuit brought by one of the women, the court decided 4-3 that Warren was not entitled to remedy at the bar. The court stated that official police personnel and government employing them owe no duty to victims of criminal acts and thus are not liable for a failure to provide adequate police protection unless a special relationship exists. In other words the court confirmed unless a special relationship exists for protection, you are first and foremost responsible for your own safety. Those living in more rural areas are usually more self sufficient and comfortable with this fact than those raised in densely populated cities. U.S. Courts have consistently ruled that the police owe no duty to protect the individual but only the public at large.

      Castle Rock v. Gonzales, A United States Supreme Court Case 545 U.S. 748 (2005).

      The Court ruled, 7-2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for failing to enforce a restraining order which had led to the murder of a woman’s three children by her estranged husband. In an affluent Connecticut neighborhood 2005, police were alerted to a home invasion where a family was held captive. The wife of Dr. William Petit had been taken by force from their home by one of the criminals to withdraw funds from a bank. The other intruder remained in her home alone with her two daughter’s, her husband unconscious and restrained in the basement. While inside the bank, Mrs. Petit informed the personnel of the home invasion who then communicated the crime to the local police department. And although the police department put forth the best efforts, unfortunately the two criminals murdered Mrs. Petit and her two daughters. She was raped and strangled to death, her two young daughters tied to their beds, assaulted and set on fire. The massacre lasted seven hours. Among our society are dangerous people and they have no regard for life. The socio paths, murderers, rapist and incessant career criminals present a very difficult problem for the general public and that is the inability to identify them. By mere sight, criminals can look like any ordinary person. In certain situations we easily recognize signs of danger. When you’re swimming off shore in open water and a 7ft. bull shark is headed directly your way you know, you’re in trouble. When raging hot flames have engulfed a home, without a doubt you’re in danger however, violent confrontations within our species do not always initially present themselves as distinctly or threats always interpreted appropriately. In the Connecticut case, the recently freed predators were in the grocery store with the victims.

      They may have stood in the same aisle, unnoticed just a few feet away from the mother and daughters before following them home. The mother and her daughters were unaware they had been targeted and were under attack by the predators. A sociopath by definition is "a type of chronic mental illness in which

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