Modern Self Protection Podcast

For this podcast, I got with Rob Morse of the Slow Facts Blog, Self-Defense Gun Stories, and Gun Freedom Radio. We talked about some of the terrorist attacks in Israel and what you can do if those come to our shores.

When should you change your carry ammo? Is it necessary? Will carry ammo go bad? What could make it go bad? Check out show notes at ModerSelfProtection.com for anything you might have missed. P.S. I'm riding to raise money to fight Alzheimer's and would love if you could throw a couple bucks at it. Click here to help me and the Alzheimer's Association out. Get some ammo here. Stay

Be the leader now so that you can learn to be better if you ever have to defend yourself or your family.

Like every skill you have for self-defense, de-escalation should be practiced any time you can.

I'm here to tell you that tactics are more important than the gear and the skill you have with the gear. Your understanding of what is going on and your move toward what you want to happen is your tactics. A definition of gear is obvious, it's the stuff you have. The definition of skill is how you can use that gear. Your tactics are the overall mindset and how to employ your sk

I spent 10 years in the Marine Corps including a combat tour and being part of an anti-terrorism force. I left the Marine Corps to return to Iraq as a private contractor for the U.S. Government fighting terrorism. I gave a large portion of my adult life to fighting terrorism and the horrors that most people don't want to deal with. To me, a terrorist is about the lowest scum on ear

Going against the grain takes humility, guts, and the chance to lose. Courage, like most things, is a muscle that you have to exercise in life. If you don't practice courage, it will atrophy and die. How often do you practice courage? Moral and or physical? Do you do new things that you are going to look foolish at? Do you accept challenges when others ask you to do something that

If you have to defend yourself should you give medical aid to the person that just tried to hurt you? No. Is the simple easy answer and should be the end of it. Three things to consider when making this decision: The Tactical Situation; will this act put you further in danger? Morally; is it the right thing to do? Legally; will this make your actions more or less defendable in

Habits are good and bad, but Training Scars will get you in trouble. Start with a good war story to show you had training scars creep into all of us. What training scars and bad habits do you have that will "get you killed in the street?" I know you have at least one, we all do. Check out the full notes at ModernSelfProtection.com/habits-good-bad-and-training-scars

Last weekend I participated in a church mass shooter training event. Most of the time I’m the instructor or coordinator, but this time I actually got to participate. My church got a bunch of volunteers to volunteer to be actors in the scenarios. Our head of church safety organized and ran the training. It was a lot of fun, and I got to mix it up with the bad guys more than once.