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Teaching not only ensures that we have it down, it puts the final imprimatur of understanding on our own performance in that discipline, sharpening us like the double-stamping of a coin. Since the inception of ASLET, the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, I’ve been chair of its firearms committee. ASLET’s motto is qui doscet, disket. Translated loosely from the Latin: “He who teaches, learns.” Thousands of my brethren and I have learned the truth of that through ASLET and similar organizations such as IALEFI, the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors.

Make sure your self-defense training is not confined to just the gun. OC pepper spray requires training to use to its best advantage.

On qualification day at an LFI-I class, the instructor’s target…

You’re not comfortable with public speaking or perhaps some other element of formal teaching? That’s fine, but if you look around there will be people in your family, your neighborhood, your workplace or somewhere else in your ambit who are interested in acquiring a defensive handgun or have already done so, and desperately need to know these things. Take those people to the range. Be patient. Be supportive. Give them what you wanted to get when you began in this discipline.