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I do this for a living, as a full-time teacher and part-time cop, part-time writer, and part-time everything else. I’m supposed to have “arrived.” But it’s never wise to kid oneself. This sort of thing, at its greatest depth, is a life-study. As soon as you think you’ve “arrived,” you stop moving forward. That’s why I budget a minimum of a week a year for myself to take training from others. It keeps me sharp, and keeps the mind open. The old saying is true: Minds, like parachutes, work best when they’re open.

The Heart Of The Beast:Mastering Trigger Control

Agreed: What kind of bullet we’re firing doesn’t matter unless the bullet hits the target.

Agreed: The bullet doesn’t have to just hit, it has to hit something vital.

Agreed: The bullet doesn’t have to just hit something vital, it has to hit something so immediately vital that the person can no longer continue to attack.

Agreed: We’ll have a very short time frame in which to accomplish this.

Agreed: As much as we might rather have a rifle, a shotgun, or a submachinegun to deal with this problem, the tool we’re most likely to have with us is a handgun.