Hello Again, Everyone! Stephen Powell here, The GunLife Coach.
I’ve been carrying a firearm for most of my adult life spanning nearly 30 years whether in the military, law enforcement or as an armed citizen. And now, after teaching thousands of shooters it has actually broadened my knowledge on best practices due to the different types of people, gear and guns they carry.
So, Today, I’m going to give you my top three best practices for EveryDay Carry. Of course, I’m speaking to those of you who conceal carry their handgun, have been carrying or on your quest to do just that. I like to teach in concept so my goal for this article/video is to give you three concepts that you can adapt to and modify as you evolve!
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How would we would do that?
Well, some of us have body changes throughout our lives. Our careers, and lifestyles can change. Even the amount of physical fitness we possess is a factor. We must consider one of my all-time favorites, the amount of training we possess.
Let’s Get Into It!
IS IT IN THE MOST CONCEALABLE POSITION?
Keep it Hidden! I have found over the years that it’s best not to show your cards until the right time! Because of this factor; I’m referring to the element of surprise, it’s best that we “Deep Conceal” our EDC.
We don’t want anyone to know that we are carrying a gun, telegraphing that we have a gun for any reason. There’s an old tactics phrase I learned back in the day, “Surprise, Speed and Violence of Action”. Three key elements for success in combat.
This is all good common sense, and goes along with why I don’t think open carry is a good plan. If I’m a criminal, (which I’m not!), I would be sizing up my victim’s based on their potential threat to me! Does this person have a gun or NOT? Whether concealed or unconcealed they may target you because they know you have a gun. DO you really think they are going to be startled because you have a gun? Don’t assume.. Here’s something to think about; If violent criminals aren’t intimidated by a cop with a gun; what makes you think they would be intimidated by you? And, you don’t have backup!! Something to think about!

Deep Concealed Carry!
IS IT IN THE EASIEST TO RETRIEVE POSITION?
Can You Get it? The average armed conflict according to statistics anywhere from 1-5 seconds! Are you ready for that? Understanding everything about YOU, from your mindset to where you put that pocket rocket on your body makes a difference! You honestly don’t have time to think.
When I say that I am referring to the fundamentals you have acquired to accomplish the task of eliminating your threat before they do you! Why? Because, you don’t have time to be fumbling around with too big or small of a gun and retrieving from God knows where to “go to work”!
It must be in the easiest to retrieve position so you can get to it, retrieve it and USE IT!
Here’s a fun little fact: Did you know that the average draw speed time of the average law enforcement officer nationwide is approximately two seconds? Now, they have exposed holsters and hopefully hundreds of hours of training. Looking at this, you are already at a disadvantage aren’t you? Your gun is concealed, you don’t have that level of training and you don’t have time to take “two Seconds” to draw your gun! Why’s that? Because you don’t know how slow or fast the event is unfolding!!!
IS IT IN THE BEST DEFENSIBLE POSITION?
Can You Protect It? This one is one concept that most fail to realize and practice! If you found yourself in a physical altercation and they saw you going for your gun or knew where your gun was on your body; how would you defend your gun from them taking it? This is why gun/holster placement is so crucial to your survival? Is it within good reach? Can you hold on to it in it’s holster? An ankle holster is probably not something you want wear; especially in shorts (JOKE, okay, but seriously don’t do that)! This concept also speaks to the first, If nobody knows you have it, then it will be easier for you to defend it! Out of sight; out of mind!
AVERAGING THESE CONCEPTS
Other Factors to Consider. We aren’t finished yet!! You have these concepts and I’m sure you can average them out, but there are still many other factors to consider! Here’s my list:
- The Type and Size of Firearm chosen
- Body position choice
- Holster
- ammo carrier
- your abilities and disabilities
- Wardrobe & styles
- off body carrying choice (backpack, fanny-pack, purses or satchels)
I’m sure there may be some other factors to consider but this is a pretty well rounded view of everyday carry for you to learn and understand for your success!
Thanks again for tuning in, please feel free to follow me on social media links here and comment as you like, I’ll look forward to hearing from you all and stay tuned for more.
God bless you and our nation!
Stephen D. Powell
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BLM’s Financial Footing is on the Ropes
A decade of their misdeeds has transpired since BLM came into existence
BLM has proven itself to be a group skilled in corporate extortion, intimidation, and protests that have led to looting, rioting, arson, and violence. Thus, reports of Black Lives Matter’s forthcoming insolvency is heart-warming: it couldn’t happen to a more worthy organization.
In 2021, their demands focused on prosecuting Donald Trump and his supporters. In essence, BLM was searching for a crime, any crime to pin on them. Not that BLM cares one wit about the U.S. Constitution or the Capitol, they had been seeking “full accountability” for anybody who participated in the January 6th breach of the Capitol, and, in their way of thinking, that includes Donald Trump.
Crackdown on Others, not Us
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BLM insisted that Congress avoid employing the Capitol breach as a rationale for cracking down on BLM’s own demonstrations and marches. Nonetheless, BLM’s annual summer activities since 2020 have precipitated looting, riots, arson, and even murder. To this day, BLM affiliated demonstrations in major cities are responsible for major property damage, and intimidation of citizens as well local government officials, and violence.
In a press release, BLM stated, “We are joining Representatives Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and others who are demanding that Trump be immediately convicted in the United States Senate. Trump must also be banned from holding elected office in the future.”
The group added “Trump has always used his digital media platforms recklessly and irresponsibly to spread lies and disinformation. Now it is clearer than ever that his digital media is also used to incite violence and promote its continuation. He must be stopped from encouraging his mob and further endangering our communities, even after the inauguration.”
If the above is not a textbook case of projection, what is? BLM accuses Trump and his supporters of exactly what BLM does nearly every day.
Chop off Their Heads
BLM has long sought to punish any Republican who exercise the same rights as Democrats did in the 2000, 2004, and 2016 presidential elections. According to BLM, any elected GOP official who voiced concern about the 2020 Electoral College count, or showed support for Donald Trump after the election, must be expelled from office. Apparently, BLM couldn’t be bothered to research the rules of the Senate, and cares little about free speech for all.
BLM asserted that, “More than half the Republican representatives and multiple senators stoked Trump’s conspiracy theories and encouraged the white supremacists to take action to overturn the election.”
Enduring Black Privilege
Against the odds. news about BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors surfaced: She was buying four expensive houses, some in predominantly white, wealthy neighborhoods, all consistent with much of what we know about BLM and its founding. She also was alleged to be viewing resort properties in Bahama, where condo prices range from $5 to $20 million.
A decade full of their misdeeds has past since BLM came into existence in 2013. Khan-Cullors and two other African-American women had established this ‘political’ movement in response to what they deemed to be a miscarriage of justice and non-existent legal regard for black lives. What was the initiating spark? For defending himself after his nose had been broken and while his head was being smashed into the sidewalk, Hispanic American George Zimmerman was acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin.
The Zimmerman verdict is now old news. Anyone who claims that the trial was not fair didn’t follow it closely and relied on second-hand commentary. In the face of intense media and public scrutiny, it is difficult to imagine a more thorough review of all available evidence, by both sides. Yet, lingering media coverage remains highly biased in favor of Martin.
The Hard Facts? Who Cares?
A well-documented police account of the shooting, supported by forensic analysis, revealed that Martin perpetrated “an unprovoked attack” on Zimmerman, first punching him in the face, then knocking him to the ground, and repeatedly bashing his head into the sidewalk, before attempting to grab Zimmerman’s gun.
A highly troubled seventeen-year-old, even with his father present in his life, Martin had embarked upon a life of theft and thuggery. Tracy Martin, his father, was a long time gang member, who introduced his son to guns, violence, and drugs. To ignore Trayvon Martin’s propensity for intermittent violence or to suggest that after he spotted Zimmerman he did not become the aggressor is pure folly.
To the chagrin of BLM founders, the preponderance of evidence revealed that the legal system worked as it should and that Trayvon Martin was the precipitating force leading to his own death.
A Ruse Among Ruses
As such, BLM was founded upon a lie, continues to lie, and has expertly cajoled, threatened, and extorted major corporations, and public and private organizations, raking in multi-millions of dollars for the founders. Their bankruptcy is a just reward. Soon, perhaps, the founders will be exposed for their extensive list of crimes.
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Allen v. Farrow and the American Quest For Truth
Through his own words, Woody Allen reveals himself.
In an era where truth is a rare commodity, and nothing seems to be definitive, it’s illuminating to watch a four-hour, four-part HBO series: Allen v. Farrow. In methodical fashion, the long-running legal wrangling between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow over his alleged molestation of seven-year-old Dylan Farrow is explored.
The telecast, first aired two year ago, is absorbing for anyone who’s seen more than one Woody Allen movie, knows anything about the controversy, or has any interest in coming to resolution.
A Pedofile Revealed
Much of the broadcast features Dylan, now 37, married with a child of her own. As she reflects back on her experience at age 7, she is coherent and credible. Mia Farrow, who starred in 13 Allen films, comes off as more balanced than the press has allowed us to see in nearly three decades.
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Through his own words and deeds, Woody Allen, birth name Allen Konigsberg, reveals himself: He was obsessed with the young Dylan. He spent much time alone with her. He couldn’t keep his hands off of her.
He claims that he never ‘took her up to the attic,’ there was ‘no train set’ there, and that everyone who has made such observations is wrong. Yet, we learn about the train set in the attic, and that other Allen contentions are wrong.
The Attempt to Normalize His Obsessions
Why was Allen shielded for so long, by so many media outlets? He made so many movies in and about New York that he became a favorite son and easily one of New York’s most popular celebrities. He brought jobs and economic activity and, in virtually every movie, he showed the upside of New York. Few people wanted to believe he was guilty.
All of Allen’s 60+ films, original scripts, notes, and everything related to the making of his movies is archived at Princeton University, as other producers and directors have their film works archived at other universities.
During the telecast, the curator at Princeton makes a compelling observation: Most of Allen’s films focus on an older man with a younger woman, and Allen has been grooming us for 50+ years to accept his worldview. Following his Oscar winning film in 1978, Annie Hall, Allen’s next film was Manhattan, which many people regard as among his best.
Manhattan depicts the 45 year-old Allen dating a 17 year-old portrayed by Mariel Hemingway. This film, like so many of his others, is Allen’s attempt to normalize his preoccupation with vastly younger women. He married Soon-yi, the adopted daughter of his then-girlfriend, Mia Farrow, when he was 56 and she was 21. He met Soon-yi when he was 53 and she was 18.
In Woody Allen films such as Crimes and Misdemeanors, we see Martin Landau as an older ophthalmologist in a relationship with airline attendant and mistress Anjelica Huston, some 20+ years younger. In other Allen films, the same scenario plays out.
Quite Conclusive
After watching all four one-hour episodes in a single night, it became obvious that Allen, now age 87, is guilty. He has used his money, power, and influence to portray himself as something that he is not.
While dating Mia Farrow for 12 years, he steadfastly maintained that he didn’t want to provide care for her children. Yet, once the allegations related to Dylan surfaced, Allen takes Farrow to court to gain custody of three of her nine children: Moses Farrow, an older Asian boy that Mia adopted; Ronan Farrow, Allen’s only biological son; and Dylan Farrow, the young daughter at the center of the controversy.
I personally recall that during the custody trial, the presiding judge asked Allen if he could name any of Dylan’s classmates or neighborhood friends. He could not. He could not name any friends of Ronan Farrow or of Moses Farrow. Further, Allen had never taken any of their children to the dentist or for a haircut. Not one of the children had ever stayed overnight at Allen’s apartment.
Thoroughly Neurotic
What kind of man would take somebody to court to claim custody of three children about whom he knows nearly nothing? This is the kind of man that Woody Allen was and is: a faker, a charlatan, and so neurotic that the elements of his neurosis revealed in his movies don’t even begin to describe his daily afflictions.
As soon as Ronan Farrow, now a renowned investigative reporter, weighs in and defends Dylan’s assertions, Allen’s then 29-year ruse is vanquished.
Allen, like others in high, high office, is a pedophile with zero jail time. The crowning grace is that he’ll go to his grave knowing that he’s been exposed. He cannot spin the voluminous amount of information and testimony presented; a conclusive body of evidence that lays out the truth for all to see.
Comprehensive Coverage?
If only HBO and other major producers would feature comprehensive exposés of, say, Bill Clinton, James Comey, Robert Mueller, Christopher Wray, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Eric Holder, Kamila Harris, Merrick Garland, Loretta Lynch, Alejandro Mayorkas, John Kerry, James Clapper, Christopher Steele, Bruce Orr, Susan Rice, John Podesta, Charles Dolan, Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland, Alvin Bragg, Michael Hayden, Sally Yates, and Susan Rice.
Or, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Nelly Ohr, Jussie Smollett, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dick Durbin, Eric Swalwell, Jerry Nadler, Sheldon Whitehouse, Antony Blinken, Ilhan Omar, George Soros, Katie Hobbs, Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, Tom Steyer, Andrew Weissmann, Marc Elias, Andrew Cuomo, David Axelrod, Barack Obama, James Biden, or maybe, gosh, Hunter Biden.
You know, scoundrels like those.
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