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“For us, when the weather’s warm, the first thing we think, we’re going to get some gunshots in here because we know people are out in the street,” Dr. Larry Mitchell of Chicago’s Roseland Community Hospital told NPR.  

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http://news.yahoo.com/denver-911-apologizes-deadly-instruction-202932590–abc-news-topstories.html

This Sunday morning, a motorist reports a road-rage encounter in Denver to 9-1-1. The dispatcher tells him to return to the scene of the incident, where he is subsequently shot.

Ernie Franssen, the Denver 911 operations manager, apologized for the incident during a news conference Monday.

“We’re absolutely apologetic for the circumstances of the call,” Franssen told KMGH. “We want to give due diligence to the employee and make sure that we did or didn’t follow the policies as they are written, and we want to take a look and listen to it ourselves and be able to speak to the employee.”

I’m sure that’s making the murdered motorist’s family feel a whole lot better. Not.

We cover dealing with 911 operators during our training courses.

Wisconsin has only recently legalized concealed carry, and this January it already paid off:

Customer with carry permit shoots armed robber at Milwaukee Aldi

The “Weapons of any kind are prohibited” sign did not work to keep the armed criminals out, and neither did the two unarmed security guards.

Just in case anyone reading this is still under any illusion that the majority of American media outlets are engaged in a deliberate campaign of misinformation against effective self defense, let me present these two links:

Photos can be deceiving

Here’s the money quote:

And if the facts don’t fit their view of the story they will make them fit: NBC doctors 9-1-1 call

Anyone calling this a “mistake during the production process” stretches their credibility well beyond its breaking point.

Meanwhile, actual crimes like the one captured on these videos from downtown Baltimore are rarely deemed newsworthy. I’d say the struggle of good vs. evil is pretty well visible in these videos, no editing required.

If you’d like to know what effective self defense actually looks like from a practical and legal aspect, get yourself some credible information in the form of actual training.

Also, if you already have effective armed self defense skills, consider adding some empty-hand self defense skills to your skillset if you don’t have them already. As you can see from both of these stories, the initial attack may well be in the form of a physical assault that, at least initially, requires an empty-hand response.

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