Modern Self Protection Podcast

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Today:  We talk about the normal in society that we are all programed not to break.  Be nice, don’t hit, share, respect for authority, and so on.  All those things are generally good, except when there is an extreme act of violence against you or others.  Societal norms are already out the window, why are you playing by society’s normal standards when the other side isn’t and doesn’t care?

 

Podcast Outline:

Here are the societal norms we are going to talk about today:

• Breaking Windows
• Escaping through no entrance doors
• Setting of Alarms
• Line from Star Trek Into Darkness: “…you can’t even break a rule, how would you be expected to break bone?” – Khan to Spock (Video Here)

• Crashing Cars
• Running Away
• Leaving a Scene
• Backing Down
• Not Paying for Things
• Being Mean
• Being Racist
• Talking Back
• Sticking up for Yourself
• Committing Violence
  • College student Hockey Pucks (Story Here)
  • Military Programming

 

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Ben

Combat Accuracy is a term people are picking up to mean, it’s good enough for now, or that means someone can’t shoot so they say I’m combat accurate. It’s all BS.

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Today: Friendly fire is just as dangerous as enemy fire.  They will both kill you dead.  Bullets don’t care, so friendly fire isn’t friendly when it’s coming towards you.

How can we avoid giving it? How can we avoid taking it?  What can you do to make yourself safer from another good guy?

 

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  • Over 60 pieces of content to train you to be better.
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Resent Mall Shooting in Alabama

Huge Class during the Police Academy

Law Enforcement happens all the time

• I think it’s their attitude
• I’m a cop and don’t do what other cops say
• Cops get shot all the time in plain clothes

Alabama Mall Shooting

• CHL Carrier got shot and killed
• News reports look like he was trying to help with his gun out
• Cops working security at the mall shot him in the back 3 times and killed him

What you can do:

• Clint Smith says the best place to carry your gun is in your hand, but maybe not always
• Learn to move around with your gun discretely
• Keep the gun in a holster and concealed is the best retention technique in a crowd
• Don’t be on the hunt with the gun up all the time
• Do one thing at a time, crowd control or shooting, not both
• Obey any order given by someone else with a gun

 

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Stay Safe,

Ben

 

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Today:  This is a Truck Talk Tuesday, just a discussion with you and me in a long drive.  Talking guns, gear, and mindset.  Continuing our mindset discussion from last Truck Talk, we talk today about never giving up.  The military taught me this after I already knew it. Adapt, improvise, overcome was the saying of the Marine Corps when I joined.  I simplified that to Winston Churchill’s easy saying, Never Give Up, Never Give Up, Never Give Up.

Once you start, just keep going and you’ll win sooner or later. The bad guy will make a mistake, just give up, or give you the opportunity to escape.  Keep pushing forward.  If you know anything, can hear anything, you aren’t dead yet.  Keep going.  Never Give Up!

 

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  • Over 60 pieces of content to train you to be better.
  • Free Video on the front page
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Thanks for listening, don’t forget to check out the Shooter’s Club, and if you need ammo check out Lucky Gunner.

Stay Safe,

Ben

 

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Today:  I recorded quick thoughts on the Pittsburg Synagogue Shooting one day after it happened.  Information was still being obtained by reporters and not much information was available when I recorded this.

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  • Over 60 pieces of content to train you to be better.
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Thanks for listening, don’t forget to check out the Shooter’s Club, and if you need ammo check out Lucky Gunner.

Stay Safe,

Ben

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Today:  This is a Truck Talk Tuesday, just a discussion with you and me in a long drive.  Talking guns, gear, and mindset.  Continuing our mindset discussion from last Truck Talk, we talk today about evil walking among us.  It’s the one thing police officers understand that must other people don’t.  The worst of the worst walk among us in our everyday life.  That “three time looser” is in the convience store line right behind you along with the guy that just got out of prison for raping and killing someone.  That’s not to mention the ones that haven’t been caught yet.

You need to understand that these people are out there, and you actually interact with some every day.  As long as you aren’t chosen as their victim you will never know how evil these people are.

Just look at your local news to see how bad those people are that live around you.

 

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• Oct 27, 2018 Beyond Concealed Carry Running the Gun, San Antonio TX, 9am - 5pm
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  • Over 60 pieces of content to train you to be better.
  • Free Video on the front page
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Thanks for listening, don’t forget to check out the Shooter’s Club, and if you need ammo check out Lucky Gunner.

Stay Safe,

Ben

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Today is a Truck Talk Tuesday, it’s just you and me talking about self defense and guns in the truck on a long driver.

Specifically we get into the mind set of self defense.  Your mind set is more important then any skill you can have.  It’s your mind set that allows you to do anything, and everything, and see things coming.

There are three parts to this series and today we talk about it can happen to you.  Bad things happen to good people and you could be one of those people that bad things happen to.  You have to except that these bad things could happen to you and then you can prepare yourself for them.

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• Sept 22-23, 2018 BCC Enhanced w/ Personal Defense Solutions, Centerton, AR 9am – 5pm
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• Oct 27, 2018 Beyond Concealed Carry Running the Gun, San Antonio TX, 9am - 5pm
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• Got Ammo? Need it? Go to Lucky Gunner.  When I need ammo, it’s where I go.  Check it out.  Great prices and a really easy site to use.
• ShootersClubMembers.com
• • Get Better for only a couple bucks a month
  • Over 60 pieces of content to train you to be better.
  • Free Video on the front page
  • Discounts to courses and holsters
  • Newest Interview gives you all the information you need to know about Pelvic Shots: Do they work? Should you use them?
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Thanks for listening, don’t forget to check out the Shooter’s Club, and if you need ammo check out Lucky Gunner.

Stay Safe,

Ben

 

A quick video about how competition shooting can actually help your self defense training.

Check out the Video on Vimeo: Using Competition as Training

 

FMF 2 Using Competition as Training from Ben Branam on Vimeo.

 

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Today: We discuss the state of our world and why it is so hard to do self defense today, why people don’t want to think about protecting themselves, and I try to give you some motivation on how you can push through all this and help make the world a better place by taking care of yourself and your family.

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• Upcoming Courses
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• Sept 22-23, 2018 BCC Enhanced w/ Personal Defense Solutions, Centerton, AR 9am – 5pm
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• Oct 27, 2018 Beyond Concealed Carry Running the Gun, San Antonio TX, 9am - 5pm
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• Got Ammo? Need it? Go to Lucky Gunner.  When I need ammo, it’s where I go.  Check it out.  Great prices and a really easy site to use.
• ShootersClubMembers.com
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  • Over 60 pieces of content to train you to be better.
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Podcast Outline:

Self Defense is hard

No one wants to believe it can happen to them

Liability is what more companies, schools, and entities care about – Even over human lives

They look at raw numbers and not the people and lives that they share

Money is more important than human lives

We outsource everything in our lives

• Self Defense
• Protection the Family
• Food
• Preparedness
• Teaching our Kids
• Law Care
• Done it for so long that we don’t even think it is our responsibility anymore

Hardship creates hard men, those hard men turn around and try to make it easy for the next generation, then the next generation makes it easier on the next, until something happens and hardship creates another generation of hard men.

 

Thanks for listening, don’t forget to check out the Shooter’s Club, and if you need ammo check out Lucky Gunner.

Stay Safe,

Ben

 

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Today is a Truck Talk Tuesday

We discuss your mind as the weapon.  Everything else should help the way you think, the way you move, and the way you fight.  Your gear, more than anything else should support your style, how you move, and how you carry stuff.

Announcements

• Upcoming Courses
• • Click here for current course list.

• Sept 22-23, 2018 BCC Enhanced w/ Personal Defense Solutions, Centerton, AR 9am – 5pm
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• Oct 27, 2018 Beyond Concealed Carry Running the Gun, San Antonio TX, 9am - 5pm
  Sign Up Here!Get More Information

• Got Ammo? Need it? Go to Lucky Gunner.  When I need ammo, it’s where I go.  Check it out.  Great prices and a really easy site to use.
• ShootersClubMembers.com
• • Get Better for only a couple bucks a month
  • Over 60 pieces of content to train you to be better.
  • Free Video on the front page
  • Discounts to courses and holsters
  • Newest Interview gives you all the information you need to know about Pelvic Shots: Do they work? Should you use them?
  • Sign Up Here!

• $75 Annual Membership
• $8 Monthly Membership

 

Thanks for listening, don’t forget to check out the Shooter’s Club, and if you need ammo check out Lucky Gunner.

Stay Safe,

Ben