Many say that American gunners support civilian possession of firearms in order to protect the powers conferred by the Second Amendment. Or rather, the U.S. arms dealer is strong enough to influence government decisions. This is part of the reason, but at the bottom of it, there may be other reasons worth exploring.
Dr. Dave Grossman Ph, retired Ranger Major with extensive combat experience, a well-known American author and himself. D) Wrote many bestsellers. It can be said to be an important introductory research book on the psychological effects of war on society and on individuals. Among them, the book "Warrior Mindset" is the best scientific description of the changes in various physiological states and psychological conditions of individuals in the face of life and death threats from the perspective of combat psychology and battlefield physical theory. Interested friends may wish to take a look. Dr. Grossman also has a best-selling book called "On Killing," which deals deeply with the psychological changes that occur before and after people face killing.
Dr. Grossman was so impressed by the speech of a retired U.S. military major in 1997 that he began to quote some of the speeches, and what is now widely known to American gunners is the so-called sheep wolf theory. He mentioned in his writings that honor does not die, but honor sometimes needs to be exchanged for the price of life. When a person is faced with such a choice, you must ask yourself three questions:
What is worth defending?
What is worth sacrificing?
What is worth living for you?
Don't think that American soldiers are young masters, in fact, any unit that can fight, honor is a tradition that is highly valued! Of course, as an American civilian with guns, these three questions are equally right for you when you or a family friend is facing a threat to your life. This is also what we call mindset formation. Since you have chosen to learn defensive shooting, you first have the idea of hoping to gain the ability to protect yourself. So when you are really facing a life-and-death crisis, what kind of mentality can make you make the decision to stand up? This mentality is that you must think about the answers to the above three questions in advance. As in the burglary that took place in Houston a few years ago, three young African-Americans broke into the garage of a retired Marine at gunpoint and threatened the male head of household who was working in the garage to hand over their belongings, and at first the male head did not resist and obeyed the orders of the bandits with the gun pointed at the head, until two of the bandits intended to break into the owner's house, considering the threats that the wife who was sleeping in the house and the three daughters who were out of adolescence might encounter, The former Marine and father resolutely pulled out their loaded concealed pistols and used skillful tactical maneuvers to overthrow the two bandits and scare away one. This example illustrates three situations:
The father understands the answers to the above three questions very well and knows when to carry them out.
Carrying self-defense weapons with you has become a habit, even in your own home.
The muscle memory that is usually trained plays a role, and the shooting action does not need to go through the brain at all.
When you are on the line between life and death, you have attitudes to the above three points, mentality; weapons; and practice, which in a large part determine who is qualified to live and eat chicken legs.
The city of Manfair, Mississippi, is a land of dragons and snakes, and violent crime has long been among the best in the country. There is a very experienced defensive shooting instructor here, and the lessons he teaches are not flashy and dazzling, only skills that are not necessarily good but are real. That's how he worked hard for more than two decades, bringing out tens of thousands of students. The teacher had a habit for decades that whenever his students encountered a shootout, he would record it. Over the years, about ninety of his students had encountered moments of crisis and had to resort to self-defense!
Their result was 96 all wins, 3 complete defeats. Why the defeat? I should have had no guns with me when the three classmates had an accident! So, it's very important to make habits, and criminals don't always pick when you're prepared, on the contrary, they'll always pick when you're not ready.
The crime rate in the United States is not high, even low, and there are about 100,000 murders and 4 in 1000 violent attacks every year. Statistics show that the average of americans living in more than 300 million people is about two million victims of violence each year. Two million is not a small number, but it is less than one percent of the population of more than three hundred million. In addition, many victims have been attacked multiple times because of their family or community background. So the specific number of victims is actually less than two million. Basically, most Americans are kind, and rarely hurt others unless they are accidental.
The famous Herd Theory is derived from this phenomenon. Dr. Grossman refers to this large part of good Americans as sheep. He believes that sheep are incapable of protecting themselves, and they need sheepdogs like soldiers, policemen to protect them. Then the rest of the people are wolves, and wolves have no mercy for sheep. Pleasant goats and gray wolves will only be beautiful stories in fairy tales, and the bad guys in reality will pounce on their prey like wolves without hesitation. If you forget or deliberately ignore the fact that this eternal existence has been ironclad, then you have become a passing sheep, very cute, very naïve, very constructive, contributing to society, but also easily preyed on the evil wolf! If you have a certain fighting ability, but you do not have any identification or compassion for the social crowd, then you are a wolf waiting for the opportunity of its prey. On the contrary, if you have your own controllable mind and a certain combat effectiveness, and you have compassion and love for the people and society around you, then you are the shepherd dog who is ready to pounce on the wolf - the patron saint of the sheep!
Dr. Grossman's herd theory has been deeply rooted in the hearts and minds of the People in the United States over the years. I had heard this theory in different places and from different populations long before I came into contact with his writings, including several masters of practical and defensive shooting that I followed many years ago when I first came into contact with practical shooting. If you have seen the movie "American Sniper", which is based on real people and true events, for the male protagonist's husband at the beginning of the film, he teaches his children at the dinner table after knowing that his son is fighting at school: "Our family does not raise sheep!" This is based on the herd theory.
There's nothing wrong with being a cute Happy Goat, but if you don't want to be a snack that can be nibbled on at any time in the mouth of a gray wolf, you must have thunderbolt means. This is the self-defense pistol I carry with me: the GLOCK G27.40 caliber pistol, the .40 pistol has a more powerful termination ability than the 9mm bullet, but it is more penetrating than the point 45 bullet. As the FBI's choice that year, it was a good choice (although the FBI has given up on this caliber.) The Glock G19 or G17 muscle memory that is usually practiced can be fully applied to the G27.
This gun magazine capacity of 9 rounds, full load gun weight of 765g, the general belt will not take long to wear will be deformed, must be a special belt to endure unchanged. This Texas denim belt is nearly twice as thick as the usual cowhide belt, which is of course a good choice. When you choose to carry, you must consider the quality of the belt, the poor belt is not only easy to deform, but also may cause the gun action to be out of shape, and there is a dangerous situation.
As for the holster, IWB Holster, it is a good choice for concealment. It is best to maintain a certain hardness and deformation under long-term application. A good holster can ensure your safe carrying and out of the gun action. Cloth holsters, while cheap, are best avoided because they are easy to deform. The holster we usually practice, if you have to pay attention to the requirements, you should know that it is a composite external mount (OWB) hard holster.
If I go far, I will choose a pistol with a larger caliber.
If you are normally at home, this GLOCK G42 (380 caliber) or G43 (9 mm) pistol that can be easily inserted in the pocket of my jeans is the weapon I carry with me. The same muscular memory, the smaller body, is the reason I use it. And the G42 recoil is smaller than 9 mm, which is very suitable for children to learn.
According to Dr. Grossman's herd theory, sheep would rather live in a self-deluded and self-righteous environment than believe in the existence of wolves. It's like people buying car insurance, housing fire insurance, and not believing that they or their loved ones have a chance to be the victim of the next violent attack. Sheep will not be prepared to protect themselves from the attack of the wolf, even if they really encounter a wolf attack, most of the sheep will choose to squeeze into the middle of the sheep, as long as the wolf does not bite themselves, everything will be fine, and afterwards, in addition to being glad that they are not dead, they still will not make any preparations for the next possible attack.
Sheep don't usually like the presence of sheepdogs because they also have sharp teeth and are too similar to wolves. And the existence of sheepdogs is a constant reminder of the cruel fact that sheep still have hungry wolves in this world. But when wolves do appear, the sheep tend to hide behind the sheepdogs they usually hate to watch the hilarity instead of coming forward to help. Writing here, I can't help but think of the story of that person's blood steamed bun written by Mr. Lu Xun. Although many people on the Internet question the confirmation of this story, are not the consequences of the eight-year War of Resistance due to such a herd mentality innumerable? At the hands of the Rehe Campaign, the Japanese army only took Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, with only 128 light cavalrymen without bloodshed. There are so many such stories.
Dr. Rothman believes that sheep, wolves and sheepdogs are born and unable to change their identities. And people have their own choices. An ordinary person can pass the transition from sheep to sheepdog in a short period of time. For example, the passengers on the 911 No. 93 passenger plane who fought with gangsters. When they learned that two airliners had crashed into the World Trade Center, they quickly completed the transition from ordinary people to heroes. Studies have pointed out that when habitual offenders choose their prey, they are like lions on the African savannah, they will choose outliers, low vigilance, seemingly weak objects, quite simply, the innate ability of predators, must be to choose low-risk, high-return prey. Dr. Rothman concluded by noting that he was very pleased to see more and more Americans break away from the flock and become protectors of social stability.
Although some say that Dr. Rothman's views are just one thing and do not represent all gun culture in the United States. But admittedly, his views are well suited to the appetite of the American Rifle Association, which has a large membership, and is also suitable for the tastes of the American grassroots, but it is very unpopular with some politicians who have always wanted to ban guns.
For the Texan Chinese who gave up their illusions and chose to come to learn defensive shooting, in addition to practicing shooting skills, their mentality must also begin to adjust.
Of course, we don't train wolves, but we don't want our classmates to be sheep either. Fate, or try to take your own hands.