You can only learn self-defense from real-life training and actual fighting, not from a book alone. What MacYoung teaches you, book after book after book (and always getting better -- read them all) is everything else. What you encounter outside of the dojo. And where your training may be so effective (but incomplete) that it sends you to prison. Or so ineffective that it sends you to the morgue.
This time, MacYoung brings along a respected gun expert, Jenna Meek, as the subject matter leaps from the micro to the macro level on the topic of self-defense -- an excellent choice of co-author for this topic, as Marc is admittedly not a gun expert. And when I say, "gun expert," I am not just talking about the lady's marksmanship skills. This author is as knowledgeable as Marc in her arena of the full spectrum of gun violence on par with MacYoung's knowledge of melee violence. They are a great pair, and the book is made very readable by their shared sense of humor.
This is a real, practical, and very timely refinement of a point Animal has been trying to make for years. And a point that is being tragically lost in the din of screaming about the Second Amendment, the "21-foot rule," and the belief that saying "I felt my life was in danger" is the summation of a successful self-defense plea.
I can honestly attest, as someone who has been in the military and taken martial arts, and has also struggled with substance abuse and trauma, that reading Mark's books have probably kept me out of prison or the graveyard. Yes, reading a book!
If you own and/or carry a weapon of any kind, take any sort of self-defense class, or are simply concerned about the legalities and practicalities of self-defense in America, you need to read this book -- and possibly refer to the long list of references in the back.
Furthermore, as a student of criminology and forensic psychology, I was deeply impressed by the both detailed, practical, and succinct assessment provided by the authors of how to recognize various types of both criminal and social violence, and how to respond to each of them, in dramatically differing ways, with minimal bodily and psychological damage. I have never seen this in such a usable form for the everyday Joe like me anywhere else!
Cheers! Look forward to the next books from both of these authors!
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