Today on Gun Talk Nation, we're back with our buddy, Chris Serino, talking about what ifs,

when then, self-defense scenarios, training your mind.

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All right, welcome into Gun Talk Nation. Today on Gun Talk Nation, we're back.

With our buddy, Chris Serino. Welcome, my man.

Hey, thanks for having me, Ryan.

All right, so Chris, we've done this before, and I think it's always fun, but also educational.

To, I play it, I say play the what if game. You call it something else.

I call it the when then game. When this happens, then I do that.

There you go. So it's kind of about training your mind when it comes to

concealed carry, self-defense, all of that stuff. And what's the value of training your mind?

Well, you know, the body's not going to go where the mind hasn't been, and we can't afford

to go to training all the time. We can't visibly go to training all the time. I mean, just now I was

on my way over here. We stopped at a gas station. It was busy. It was crowded. There's all kinds of

different looking vehicles and people, and you always assess everything. And the first thing I

thought to myself was, I don't have a gun. Yeah, because I did not bring a gun out with me.

That's not normal for you, but we do have those moments where you go, man, we got to change

you tactics. I mean, avoidance is number one, right? Avoidance. Yeah. How we see this on first

person offender? How much of a problem is it for people to... I guess I always say it, and I don't

think I say it eloquently, is be rude or be willing to be rude to strangers. Yeah, you have to be

willing to create distance. And sometimes that's misinterpreted as being rude. There's no doubt about

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