Let's not get into talking about gun control or civil liberties, and stick to the discussion of self defense.
There are always contrasting thoughts on what self defense means. If we are being practical we would realize there are many other hidden dangers in our life that we need to defend ourselves from. Diabetes, Obesity, Pollution, Mental health, are all examples of attackers in our society that harm us on a drastically higher frequency than a physical attack.
However, this situation we are talking about here is the idea of physical self defense. The rational would be that carrying a gun would give us the opportunity to diffuse a potentially harmful situation or at worst use violent force to stop a relentless attacker.
Having a gun is only effective if we are able to show it and keep the person away.
Having the gun is only effective if we can hit what we are aiming to hit.
If these two unknown factors can be fulfilled when using a gun, then it makes sense to carry the weapon. However, there are plenty of situations where this won't happen. Learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu will reinforce your physical self defense abilities when you are unable to satisfy the two prerequisites of using a gun.
Our self defense curriculum will give you the physical tools necessary to escape dangerous situations and train you on how to function in a high stress situation, how to use your words to hopefully diffuse a situation, and how to survive an attack. Join us on the mats. We want to give you the necessary skills to do this.
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Report: More women, suburbanites carrying guns
Bloomberg
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- Dawn Kurry
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The sports aspect of shooting guns may not be restricted to country boy stereotype anymore, as new statistics show the emerging face of today’s shooter is vastly different.
Almost half of today’s first time gun buyers in the country are female (48 percent of gun owners), usually purchasing a gun for self-defense and self-sufficiency. Also, most people buying guns today for the first time include people ages 22-30 living in suburban areas, according to a survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which keeps a tally on all things related on firearms retail trends.
“The gun retailers themselves don’t keep track of the data,” says Bill Brassard, senior director of communications for the NSSF. “We tally them by what we see in background checks.”
An online survey of U.S. consumers was also conducted by the NSSF.
The organization, based in Newtown, Connecticut, releases annual reports, which in recent years show that first time gun buyers today are “active, using their gun on average once per month or more and are already participating in one or more shooting activities.”
Of these first time gun purchases, 87 percent are for home defense, 76 percent are for self defense and 63 percent of this demographic say they always wanted to own a gun. First time buyers are spending an average of $500 on their first gun.
Semiautomatic pistols are the most popular, followed by shotguns, and revolvers, according to the data.
