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We've got our old guns, the guns we've got from our daddies and grandaddies,

and then we have calls like Trisha called in last hour,

talking about going to the SIG Academy and exord New Hampshire fabulous training facility,

and how it changed her perspective on guns and allowed her to

better explain guns to her friends in the more liberal world.

She's a professional flautist.

It was an interesting call, and it's all part of that whole continuing to seek information,

working on education. I am of the belief that if you are serious about guns,

particularly if you have guns for self-defense.

We call it a perishable skill, and it is that. If you don't continue to get training of some sort,

you're practicing bad habits. You need somebody else to look at you and see what you're doing

and go, let me show you a different or maybe better way to do that. Things you couldn't come

up with yourself, because you can't. You can't coach yourself really.

I mean, after you've been to, you know, a lot of training schools, you'll learn a lot,

and maybe you can pick up on what you're doing, but the idea is to keep practicing all the time.

How often should you shoot? I don't know. Once a month is probably a minimum.

If you have a gun, you are counting on for self-defense. The example I give is

when you pick up your pistol, assuming it's a pistol for self-defense,

it should feel as comfortable in your hand, and as I don't know, just

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