Self-Defense TRAINING
Jennie Jenkins, an Army combat veteran, engages targets while practicing for multiple threats common in violent encounters.
DEFINING REALISTIC SELF-DEFENSE
These training scenarios prepare you for violent encounters far better than marksmanship, martial arts.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY PAUL PAWELA
s this article is being written, today’s headline news is a barrage of horrifying violent crime reports. • Iowa church shooting leaves 2 victims dead. • Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital shooting leaves 4 dead. • Uvalde, Texas, school shooting leaves 19 students, 2 teachers dead. These are the current facts: violent crimes, murder, armed robbery, armed
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carjacking and physical assaults are skyrocketing throughout the country. Many root causes are poverty, inflation, unemployment and dramatic social change in the trust of governmental public institutions like the police. When people can’t trust the police, crime goes through the proverbial roof, which is exactly what we are seeing today! And of course, the quick-fix answer that our liberal political leaders propose is to impose more restrictions on law-abiding citizens from carrying personal weapons and/or banning the most popular types of rifles. Thank God for the recent Supreme
Court decision that struck down the New York mandate prohibiting its citizens access to concealed weapons permits to defend themselves. IN LIGHT OF the rapidly apocalyptic events going on in the world currently, especially as it pertains to the citizens of the United States, I have been asked to address my views on realistic selfdefense, as I have led several courses of the same name via my self-defense training company, Assault Counter Tactics. For the past 30-plus years, I have been providing realistic self-defense americanshootingjournal.com 85
