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It’s Not the Gun, IT’S YOU!

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“It’s not the gun, it’s You!” Well, that statement has been said by many a somber speaking Instructor across this country at many a range. All the while, their student having a look of bewilderment; not understanding the fundamentals of the machinery within their grip and the complete lack of accuracy achieved on target.

Who’s to Blame?

Many a shooter often finds themselves on a relentless pursuit for the perfect gun, the perfect trigger with the perfect sights and all the latest greatest tweaks and modifications to go with it.  Better yet, you also have the shooter that is a jumper!  Yes, they jump from one manufacturer to the next: Glock, Sig Sauer, HK, Beretta, Smith & Wesson, Colt, Cz, Springfield, to you name it! They actually think if they can find the perfect gun, they will have the perfect gun and make flawless shots.

I know what some of you are thinking! Hey, there’s truth to that! ” I like to trick out my gun!”. Sure that’s fine. Yes, you are absolutely right. There’s some truth to it. Don’t get me wrong, I love a better trigger, better sights and an easier to use handgun than just what comes in stock.  But there’s more to it than that. Here’s Why!

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Fix the Shooter, Not the Gun.

The reason I’ve said this to thousands of shooters of the years is simple. When you modify a practical handgun for defense SOO much that you may have over complicated it’s soul purpose. Coinciding with that is the fact that when you have so many accessories or after market parts on the gun that it will go out of spec and fail. I’ve seen it many a time and have made the same errors “modding out” my glocks. Once again, the K.I.S.S. method still applies.

Here’s another reason. Let’s just say you don’t have your tricked out gun available or you are for whatever circumstance you have found yourself in are needing to shoot another gun. I’ve seen many a shooter either law enforcement or civilian simply cannot adapt and have more failures than successes by “usually have my gun” with them.

When you fix the shooter and not the gun, you can apply all the concepts of firearms fundamentals at work and literally pick up any of them and have a higher level of success than not. One last example and the one that seems to be the biggest adjustment made to modern pistols is bumping the sights over to compensate for the shooter’s terrible trigger control and discipline.

So, after all the searching and fixing everything else, most people find out that their target never looked any better! In Fact, I used to bet people that it wasn’t their sights and show them on the range constantly, it’s mainly how you use your sights and “HOW YOU PULL THE TRIGGER”.

Isn’t that Funny?

Isn’t that funny, it’s just like “LIFE”? We want to blame other people, blame other things or circumstances. We are so willing to discard good working and usable resources even people that we cared about; all for the sake of not losing face.

You know, It’s hard to look in the mirror sometimes and realize we are the one’s to blame. Isn’t It? It’s our perception of things, even how we respond to events, people and circumstances that happen in our lives. So, My question to you today is this:

What are you doing about it?

What are you doing today to fix yourself and not the gun? How are you reflecting on those changes? When are you going to take action upon them? These changes are vital and thaty need to take place so you can evolve yourself to be a better shooter, better manor woman of faith, spouse, friend, leader, parent and one that’s super important to me…. American?

 

That’s all for today! Please stay tuned with me on my YouTube channel, like, comment and share and I’ll see you next time! Have an Awesome Day!!

 

Stephen D. Powell – The GunLife Coach

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Stephen D. Powell is an Air Force veteran with more than 18 years of combined federal, military & civilian law enforcement experience. Powell has been teaching professionally for over 25+years as a firearms Instructor for numerous organizations and agencies rated with the NRA, NM & TX DPS and a Sig Sauer Academy Master Instructor. His company, Patriot Outdoors, Inc, has been operational in the defensive training industry since 2004, starting a thousand acre training facility located in Eastern New Mexico. Patriot has provided crucial and relevant firearms training to DOD and SOCOM, state and local law enforcement and armed citizen students. Over the past several years, Powell has appeared on several Fox News, Sirius XM radio, various regional newspaper, radio and tv shows, promoting military veteran entrepreneurship and patriotism as well as educating the shooting industry on range development, media relations and key second amendment issues. Patriot Outdoors is currently operating out of the Phoenix Valley, Arizona and with a new channel of The GunLife Coach to inspire and motivate other in life and on the range!



 
 
 

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Mainstream Media: Intentionally and Diabolically Unfair and Unbalanced

All pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone

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by Jay DeLancey and Jeff Davidson

The grandest mistake the American populace committed in the last half-century was assuming that our media was even somewhat fair and balanced. Likewise proceeding in the last two decades as if the Internet giants had no dog in the political arena proved to be a mistake of historical proportions.

Today because so many people, still, are conditioned as such, the mere fact that say, a CNN, has a website prompts some people to believe that the network have something of value to offer. Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, whose focus is classics and military history, says that the New York Times is “a shell of what it used to be.”

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Nothing Objective to Offer

The paper always leaned to the left, since it’s founding, but it did an intermittently semi-decent job in reporting the facts. The Times sent their reporters out to the streets to do hard-core reporting. The mission was to gather relevant data, identify sources, talk to people, find eye witnesses, speak to bonafide experts, attain corroboration, and then when they were sure of what they had written, submit the story or feature.

Their articles probably never represented a 50-50 balance – perhaps 55-45 or 60-40 in favor of the left. Today, no rational media observer would contend that the balance is 70-30, or even 80-20. Study after study reveals, say, in the case of covering Donald Trump, that 92% of all features are negative, and that is not to say the remaining 8% are positive. Mostly, they’re neutral.

If you are a Trump or DeSantis supporter, or a Republican running for Senate or the House of Representatives, for governor in your state, or for any other position of prominence, you simply cannot expect a fair shake from the press, nationally, and in most cases locally. Indeed, you’re likely to be demonized, endlessly, over issues for which Democrats receive a free pass.

Compromised to the Breaking Point

The New York Times and The Washington Post of old, as biased as they might’ve been, at least offered some semblance of up-to-date information, with facts and figures when they had them, and timely reporting as situations unfolded. Hansen remarked that today the people who run these newspapers are trading on the decades of hard work and the reputations built up over more than 100 years.

Those who put in the seed work are dead and gone and thus, obviously, have no say about what’s going on today. The Times and the Post, in less than a generation, are destroying their own reputations. The people who currently run these ‘news’ organizations are dragging them down at warp speed and don’t even recognize the damage that they are doing.

By 2030, what is now a shell of an organization will be less so, and it wouldn’t be too wild to predict that the Times could totally morph into something else. The Post is not far behind in devising its own demise.

The Pretense is Gone

Each of the countless newspapers that feed off of these two publishing giants suffer as well. All such pretense that the mainstream media strives for objectivity is gone. The good news, if you could call it that, is everyone on the right is now vitally all aware that this has happened.

Those who strive for integrity in elections, those who are on the right, and those who are routinely demonized by the left, understand what’s occurring to the nth degree. It’s not fair, but to know what you face is a benefit of sorts.

 

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Democrats Once Made Sense Occasionally

By today’s standards JFK would be considered a conservative

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With RFK, Jr. already favored by a sizable percentage of Democrats for the 2024 nomination, I recall a visit I made to his mother’s home. In 1988, I was invited by a friend to attend a Democratic fund raising reception for a congressional candidate, running in Northern Virginia. The reception was to be held at the home of Ethel Kennedy in McLean, VA.

I was eager to attend, although skeptical that the reception would actually be held in Mrs. Kennedy’s home. I felt certain it would be held in the back yard, or in a special tent on grounds that were meticulously groomed for the event.

To my surprise, the event was held in her home and the hundreds of people who attended apparently were free to roam about the first floor without restriction. I found this to be totally amazing. Here was a home, that by any measure, contained artifacts which future generations would clamor to see.

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A Panoply of Pop Culture and History

Every room contained personal photos of Bobby Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Ted Kennedy and the entire clan, as well as awards, citations, and personal mementos. Guests could have pocketed their choice of mementos at any time. Apparently none did – at any time. More astounding, Mrs. Kennedy seemed completely unconcerned about the possibility.

As I meandered about the grounds, I made my way to the pool house. Between a couch and a chair, on a phone stand, along with the phone, was a roster of phone numbers typed and inserted in a plastic sleeve. I looked at the list. Ted Kennedy’s congressional phone number and his private number in Hyannis were listed. Jackie Kennedy’s personal phone number in New York was listed. Other family members, celebrities’ and luminaries’ personal phone numbers were listed.

Any reporter or paparazzi could have cashed in simply by copying the numbers on the list and selling them to the tabloids. This backyard, this yard, this house, on a typical street in McLean, VA had no fences, no guard dogs, none of what I would have expected the widow of a historical figure – a millionairess – to have.

People-oriented to the Max

I thought about all the time and energy that I, and most of the people I know, spend to safeguard our privacy, to ensure no one is looking over our shoulder when we’re doing something as simple as reading a newspaper on an airplane. Ethel Kennedy, however, was a public person, circa 1988.

It seemed inconceivable that an Ethel Kennedy could be so open and people-oriented, and not need the barriers and protectors that most of us believe we need.

As that night’s affair ended, I marveled when Ethel Kennedy stood at the door and bade all guests a fond farewell. She shook my hand and thanked me for coming as if I had been one of the Democratic Party’s most staunch supporters and honored guests in her home.

Accessible and Not-off-the-Wall

I was not a Democrat and never seek to be one, but this I know: by today’s standards JFK would be considered a conservative, or certainly  someone ‘unworthy’ of the Democrat nomination. RFK senior likely would be in the same category.

Sure, many of their views and policies would be appear to be be left of center or at the center, but perhaps no more so than John McCain or George W. Bush. In any case, any Kennedy would be preferable to the tyrannical Leftist monsters currently in power, seeking to destroy America.

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