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“Go beyond preparing for the self-defense incident I hope you never have to go through. There's a reason why people look to martial arts...

“If you choose to prioritize spending your money on things other than high-level training, you still have an inherent right to self-defense (and) you...

“If you've trained to shoot fast and accurately, all the other problem solving aside, just the mechanics of shooting the gun, that's not going...

“One of the things I do in my scenarios is, students that gracefully exit and find a way to not use any force at...

“When most people hear violent criminal actor, they imagine someone who is obviously mentally ill, or is going to stand out…The majority of the...

“I'm not trying to turn them into me. There are some of us who have adopted this as our lifestyle, this is what we...

“I don't think you necessarily need to be perfect in your execution of tactics, I think what's probably more important might be understanding the...

“You are not going to empty the bag of blood that is a human in the quantity of seconds that it takes someone to...

“Concealment is a challenge. It's made up of a number of different things, that can ultimately lead to success, but it requires that you...

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“If you're not losing then that means you're not putting yourself out there, because if you only put yourself in things you always win...

“Not all shootings are scary, so don't put that into your training and think that it's always going to be, because it's not always…”...

“When you have a minimum standard, you don't teach people past the standard, you invariably teach down to the standard.” – Caleb Giddings  ...

“If you don't accept the fact that there really is evil out there, and that it's appropriate to use force to thwart it, then...

“I remember going to a class with a rifle, with a red dot, and you know what happened right? . . . all this...

“With any red dot program you have to embrace a higher level of maintenance. There's no other way around it.” -Dan Smith  For the...

“Safety and gun-handling are priority number one, always.” -Chris Cypert  Ballistic Radio welcomes Chris Cypert of Citizens Defense Research back to the show! Have...

“Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.” -Chris Cypert  Ballistic Radio welcomes Chris Cypert of Citizens Defense Research back to the show! What is...

“We have unprecedented access to information that used to take years of study to get. Now … you can go on YouTube and you...

“The word liberal has a lot in common with the word liberty and if we think about that aspect of liberal politics that is...

“As far as target I.D. or …target positive identification, it’s pretty much a gimme in civilian self-defense roles because it’s the dude robbing you...

“Even the idea that I would be a mentor to someone, in and of itself, makes me leery because I’m like wow, I’m an...

“The idea is to provide you the benefits of an experience without the consequences of real life.” – Craig Douglas  Ballistic Radio is honored...

“Once we’ve compressed the timeframe that decisions have to be made in they get a lot harder to make. And I think a lot...

“…We have had a huge sea change as far as what we consider acceptable risk in our society.” -John Hearne  Ballistic Radio is honored...

“The very best instructors that I have seen are students of their students.” – Samuel Middlebrook  Samuel Middlebrook of Redhawk Firearm Training makes his...

“My era of people probably need to be more patient, and younger folks need to be more open to listening to people with experience...

“If you are looking for a fight, well then that places you outside the bounds of normal morality, in my opinion.” -John Correia  John...

“Paying attention doesn’t mean paranoia, it means curiosity. It means seeing what’s going on in the world and are the things in this world...

“The good idea fairy will bite you in the butt if you don’t make sure that you have solutions to some of these problems...

“Decisive action is the key for any great success in life.” -John Murphy Ballistic Radio is honored to welcome back John Murphy of FPF...

“…We have to have skillsets realizing that we may not be the superhero we think we are every moment of every day.” -John Murphy...

“You are staying out of trouble, as opposed to getting out of trouble.” – Claude Werner One of our very favorite guests, The Tactical...

“We want the best. But I think there’s something lost along the way when… on one hand we say we want everyone to be...

“I really believe in the old idea of… Mindset, Tactics, Skill, Gear in order of descending importance. But it’s also an order of ascending...

“…That is what we’re trying to simulate in Force on Force. There’s so much more to self-defense than just pulling a trigger.” -Erik Pakieser...

“We have a perfect storm. I’ve never seen anything like this before, I’ve never seen this kind of…any one of the factors we have...

“It’s always been interesting to me, nobody hands you a knife and says don’t worry it’s dull. But we hear it a lot with...

“Generally speaking people who are very experienced in violence, and have seen a lot of it…avoid it.” -Chris Cypert  The newest member of Citizens...

“When it comes to the hidden costs…and the suffering that are brought about, there’s nothing romantic about it.” -Chris Cypert  The newest member of...

“The world is providing input like a pitching machine. It doesn’t love you, it doesn’t hate you, it’s just pitching. But you have to...

“So the list of things that you would kill and die for is something that you’ve got to sit down and really think about....

“One of the things that a lot of people seem to have a hard time with is the fact that … you’re only the...

“I think a bigger issue is that everyone, when they have these scenarios run through their head they always win.” -Lee Weems  Lee Weems...

“It turns out that being right on the facts doesn’t change behavior, but, there are other things that do. So without arguing a single...

“We don’t like to make mags that aren’t optimizing or increasing, or at least matching the performance of the factory magazines. So there’s a...

“So the motivation became I’m doing this now because of the people I love and the things I love and I don’t want to...

“It seems like you get around the personal protection industry folk and, as a newbie, you go ‘Yeah, I want to do this to...

“I’d been involved in real violence in my life several times, and never before in training had I felt that kind of pressure.” -Shawn...