Arizona Firearms Training

The FBI Uniform Crime statistics show that for the year 2005, the latest year for which full statistics are available, 417,122 citizens were robbed, 93,934 citizens were raped and 862,947 were assaulted. A study of U.S. Department of Justice data by Dr. Gary Kleck, a criminologist at Florida State University, and published in his 1995 book Targeting Guns, showed that of the responses of victims when they were attacked that using a firearm in response to robberies and assaults was least likely to result in harm to the victim. This includes those that offered no resistance and complied with the criminal’s demands or tried to run away. Dr. Kleck notes that those who used a gun and were injured includes those that were harmed BEFORE they used a gun. He estimated that only 6% were injured AFTER they used their gun.

The United States Judicial system has ruled multiple times that the citizens of this country do not have a constitutional right to being protected by the state. One U.S. Appeals court boldly proclaimed that “there is no constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen.” (7th Circuit, 1982, Bowers v. DeVito).

Taking training in self-defense is no different than taking training in first-aid – when someone is injured, pressure is applied to a wound until professional medical help arrives. When someone is criminally attacked, defending yourself until professional help arrives is no different. Protecting yourself and your loved ones is the “first-aid” in response to criminal attacks.

If you are attacked, will you be able to use “first-aid?”

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