My brother, Bill Callos, asked me to be a guest columnist on his website, “The Safe Place.” Bill sells safes and security for a living --and I teach self-defense (more or less) for a living. So, in some ways, we’re in the same kind of business; it’s the business of staying safe and not being a victim. In Bill’s case, he keeps people’s things out of harms way --and I work at keeping people out of harms way.
In physical self-defense the rule is recognize and avoid. If you recognize a potentially dangerous situation, before it gets dangerous, then there’s a good chance you can avoid it altogether. If you can’t avoid it, at the very least you might stand a chance of stacking the deck in your favor.
When you buy a safe you are taking precautionary measures to protect things you don’t want to lose. Now THAT is self-defense. Losing something and THEN buying a safe, that’s not the kind of self-defense we want to practice, if we have the choice.
In physical self-defense the rule is recognize and avoid. If you recognize a potentially dangerous situation, before it gets dangerous, then there’s a good chance you can avoid it altogether. If you can’t avoid it, at the very least you might stand a chance of stacking the deck in your favor.
When you buy a safe you are taking precautionary measures to protect things you don’t want to lose. Now THAT is self-defense. Losing something and THEN buying a safe, that’s not the kind of self-defense we want to practice, if we have the choice.
By the way, my favorite safe is the Browning Tactical Mark II. I like it for the size and the racks on top, in the door, and on the sides.
Bill, what do you say to that?
Tom, thank you for the lesson in self-defense. Readers, call us: The Safe Place, 775-358-7233.
Bill, what do you say to that?
Tom, thank you for the lesson in self-defense. Readers, call us: The Safe Place, 775-358-7233.
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