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As a member of Erie City Council for slightly more than a year, Dave Brennan has tackled a lot of neighborhood projects and initiatives.
The 46-year-old professional architect and urban planner said he would like to continue that work on council.
Brennan announced he intends to run in the Democratic primary in May for a full four-year term.
About 100 friends and family members attended Brennan's campaign kickoff event Thursday afternoon at the Intermodal Transportation Center, 208 E. Bayfront Parkway.
"A lot of projects and initiatives within neighborhoods and downtown have come my way on council,'' Brennan said. "I want to do my part to help those initiatives. There's a lot of work I've started. There are a lot of things that are unfinished and that I want to be part of. I have a passion to see our city succeed and I want to be a part of that effort.''
Brennan has donated his time and effort to several city projects, including the redevelopment of the former GAF Materials Corp. site on Erie's west bayfront.
He said his campaign will focus on strengthening the city's economy, exploring ways to improve neighborhoods and improving "the vitality'' of the city's downtown.
"I've learned that it's a team effort,'' Brennan said. "On City Council, we have a lot of work to do and I think we have a lot of initiatives and there's a lot of positive things going on in Erie.''
In August 2011, the Erie County Democratic Party in a special election chose Brennan to run for a two-year term on council.
At that time, Democrats had nominated Bob E. Merski to a four-year seat on council. Merski also was nominated to a two-year council seat to fill the remainder of the late City Councilman Jim Thompson's term.
Merski chose to give up the two-year term, prompting the party election that resulted in Brennan's nomination.
Brennan faced no opposition in the November 2011 general election. He took office on Jan. 1, 2012.
"I think David is a team player and I think that he works well with the rest of us on council,'' Councilman Bob Merski said. "He got appointed, and I'd love to see him get elected.''
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"Our college students have a place to do their student teaching," said Diane Stewart, dean of early childhood education and training programs. "At the same time, the focus is to provide a pre-school for 3- and 4-year-olds."
The state-funded preschool, which can hold 30 youngsters, is meant for COC's Canyon Country campus students. However, the school is also available to staff members and the local community, she said.
The center has been open since Aug. 19, but COC faculty and trustees officially celebrated the opening during a ribbon cutting on Thursday.
Another childhood center already exists on COC's Valencia campus.
The Canyon Country center is about 2,150 square feet and includes two fully furnished classrooms, age-appropriate restrooms, a kitchen and observation areas for parents and students majoring in Early Childhood Education at COC.
The center is designed to provide children with a variety of creative materials needed to stimulate learning and social interaction, and curriculum designed to develop and support language arts, math/science, dramatic play, music, movement, social/emotional and creativity skills.

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BARACK OBAMA: "I've proposed a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan. ... The way we do it is $2.50 for every cut, we ask for $1 in additional revenue."
THE FACTS: In promising $4 trillion, Obama is already banking more than $2 billion from legislation enacted along with Republicans in 2011 that cut agency operating budgets and capped them for 10 years. He also claims more than $800 billion in war savings that would occur anyway. And he uses creative bookkeeping to hide spending on Medicare reimbursements to doctors. Take those "cuts" away and Obama's $2.50/$1 ratio of spending cuts to tax increases shifts significantly more in the direction of tax increases.
Obama's February budget offered proposals that would cut deficits over the coming decade by $2 trillion instead of $4 trillion. Of that deficit reduction, tax increases accounted for $1.6 trillion.
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Romney seems to be resurrecting the assertion that Obama's law would lead to rationing, made famous by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's widely debunked allegation that it would create "death panels."
OBAMA: It's important "that we take some of the money that we're saving as we wind down two wars to rebuild America."
THE FACTS: This oft-repeated claim is based on fiscal fiction. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were paid for mostly with borrowed money, so stopping them doesn't create a new pool of available cash that can be used for something else.
ROMNEY: "At the same time, gasoline prices have doubled under the president. Electric rates are up."
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Sorry guys, it's been a slow week in Seahawks land. Aside from the inevitable rehashes of a painful week one loss to the 49ers that few fans want to revisit, the only Seahawks-related activity as of late was the cutting of third string TE Dominique Byrd to make room for FB Eddie Williams, who was signed off of Cleveland's practice squad to replace FB Michael Robinson while he recovers from an ankle injury.
In other words, we've hit a patch of early season doldrums. Well, that's not exactly true — here at Seahawk Addicts, we've hit the doldrums in every place but one. Those of you who regularly follow the discussion threads for each post already know this, but we've had a pretty lively question and answer session going for the last few weeks, due in no small part to a series of great questions from SA reader lazer hawk (seriously, take a bow, man).
So with nothing else going on right now, I figured this would be a good time to pull some of the most recent batch of questions out of the threads and answer them here on the front page so more people can see what kind of fun we're having in there. And hey, if you guys end up liking this and have more questions to ask, whether they be about the Seahawks, football in general, or whatever else you think I might know something about1, I might just end up making this Q&A thing a regular feature. Anyway, on to the questions:
1) If the Hawks pull out a W over Pittsburgh this weekend, what do you foresee as the main reason? What do you think our chances are? Most people outside of Washington state give us virtually zero life expectancy. I want to remain positive, yet realistic.
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Yes, the Seahawks do have a chance to win this one, but I'd put their odds of winning at no better than average. In many ways, Seattle and Pittsburgh's strengths are quite similar; both have solid defenses and great talent at the running back, wide receiver, and tight end positions.
However, so are their weaknesses. The Steelers' offensive line is average at best, and Red Bryant and Brandon Mebane should not have too much trouble continuing their run-stuffing ways. Pittsburgh's starting left tackle Jonathan Scott appears to be a particularly weak link; if he continues to struggle, Chris Clemons could be in for a breakout game.
Likewise, both teams also have problems at the quarterback position. Yes, you read that correctly: both teams. We're all intimately familiar with Tarvaris Jacskon's struggles under center for the Seahawks, so let me focus on the other guy for a minute here. Steelers fans tend to get pissy whenever someone fails to mention Ben Roethlisberger's name in the same breath as Peyton Manning's and Tom Brady's, but there's a simple reason why no one ever does: Big Ben is not an elite quarterback. Roethlisberger may get paid like one, and he's got some great talents — he can throw the ball about a billion yards downfield, he's got a quick release on his throws, he's a decent runner, and I've never seen anyone who can pump fake as hard and convincingly as he does and still not losing his grip on the ball — but he combines all those traits with a remarkable ability to play lights-out dumb at the drop of a hat. Just look at his horrific outing against the Ravens last week, or better yet look at his 77.4 passer rating in Super Bowl XLV back in July, his 35.5 passer rating against the Jets in the AFC Championship game before that, or his jaw-droppingly putrid 22.6 passer rating versus the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL.
In short, Ben Roethlisberger is eminently hateable both on and off the field. He's a double threat!
2) Did anybody pick up Thomas Clayton or is he floating around as a free agent somewhere? Also, what does the term street agent imply?
Clayton is still a free agent, although the Dolphins did bring him in for a workout recently. In other ex-Seahawk free agent news, WR Brandon Stokley was signed by the Giants and Lofa Tatupu is still inexplicably a free agent.
A street free agent is just what they call anyone who is still a free agent once the regular season is underway, the joke being that the team has run out of backups and is now just signing guys off the street outside their headquarters. Calling a guy a street free agent has nothing to do with whether or not he can play. Brandon Stokley was a street free agent when Seattle signed him last year, and he was an integral part of the offense for the rest of the season.
Here's another example: back in the 2006 season the Seahawks were forced to sign a street free agent just before their first playoff game because they'd lost three cornerbacks to injury. The guy they brought in, Pete Hunter, played well in both games, recovering a fumble against the Cowboys and making a great 4th quarter interception against the Bears. He ended up getting cut in training camp the next year, but that doesn't diminish what he was able to accomplish in the postseason.
3) What type of defensive scheme do the Hawks use, is it a 4-3 under or something like that? What does that really mean, and how do you think it will work against the Steelers?
You're correct, the Seahawks' base defense uses 4-3 under alignment. 4-3, 3-4, 5-2, and all their numerical variants are shorthand for how many defensive linemen and linebackers are used in a given defensive formation. A 4-3 scheme uses four defensive linemen and three linebackers, a 3-4 scheme would have three defensive linemen and four linebackers, and so forth. The rest of the players on defense are all defensive backs (if you wanted to be exact and count the DBs too, you could call it a 4-3-4 defense).
"Under" designates where the defensive linemen are placed in relation to the offensive line. But before I get into that, let me show you a diagram of the first 4-3 style defense, the "umbrella" defense Giants coach Steve Owen used to shut down the Browns' passing attack in the early 50s:
As you can see, the umbrella defense technically lines up in a 6-1 alignment, but the defensive ends would drop back into coverage on passing downs much like 4-3 outside linebackers do today. More importantly, I want you to take note of how the rest of the defensive linemen are lined up straight across from the offensive guards and tackles. As other 4-3 defenses began to emerge, that's precisely how the defensive linemen continued to line up, with the defensive tackles straight across from the offensive guards, the defensive ends straight across from the offensive tackles, and no one standing in front of the center except a middle linebacker situated a few yards back from the line of scrimmage.
Lining your defensive linemen up like that has the benefit of giving you more or less the same d-line strength no matter which direction the offense is going, but the downside is that it's extremely predictable, and DLs ended up being sitting ducks for double teams and trap blocks all game long. To shake things up a bit, defenses began to shift their players, usually by lining up their DLs strong to one side and their LBs strong to the other side. When defensive linemen shifted toward the strong side of the offensive formation, that was called an "over" shift; if they shifted to the weak side of the offensive formation, that was called an "under" shift.
For ease of comparison, I've depicted both the 4-3 over and 4-3 under lined up against the exact same formation and in a Tampa-2 style coverage shell with man-to-man coverage underneath, with some typical points of attack and areas of responsibility outlined in red:
Both have their individual strengths and weaknesses, but I'll just be focusing on the under alignment since that's what the Seahawks run. The main benefit of the 4-3 under is the way it isolates the left tackle and left guard, giving the right DE and 3-tech DT one on one matchups all day long and maximizing their disruptiveness. The under alignment has made stars out of a lot of right DEs and 3-tech DTs, including the Colts' speed-rusher DE Dwight Freeney and sack machine DT Warren Sapp during his tenure with the Buccaneers.
The Seahawks switch this scheme up a bit by giving their right DE (they call him the "Leo" DE) the option to stand up instead of always having to put his hand in the dirt, giving him some flexibility in how he chooses to attack the offense. Both Chris Clemons and Raheem Brock did well from this position last year.
Unfortunately, the Seahawks haven't had as much luck finding a truly disruptive player to man the 3-tech position, which is a big part of why Seattle's pass rush was so ineffective in several games last year — if the offense isn't worried about the 3-tech, they can focus more of their efforts on stopping the Leo end. The team is hoping that free agent pickup Alan Branch will turn things around in that regard and make the 3-tech a force to be reckoned with in this defense, but I have yet to see that happen. The season is young though, and Branch has plenty of time to grow into the role.
The jobs of the left DE and the other DT (i.e. the 0-tech, 1-tech, nose tackle, etc.) are similar in the Seahawks scheme in that on most plays they're both two-gap defenders. This means that instead of focusing on disrupting just one lane through the offensive line like the Leo and 3-tech, the 1-tech and LDE are responsible for monitoring and plugging up two offensive lanes. The time it takes for those players to read the offense and choose which gap they're going to fill usually slows them down enough that they don't have a chance to make the play themselves, but thankfully for the Seahawks Brandon Mebane and Red Bryant are not typical players. Both have shown an aptitude for getting in on the play more often than most two gap defenders, and that is a major bonus for Seattle.
The strongside linebacker is asked to do a whole lot in this defense. He has to be big and physical enough to help the DE set the edge against multiple blockers on runs to that side, but athletic enough that he can get into position to cover tight ends and running backs. Seattle's SLB Aaron Curry is well above average when it comes to setting the edge and playing the run, but is below average in coverage, which played a big part in his contract being restructured. He's got the athletic talent to succeed in this role, and he's got a better chance to improve this season now that the coaches have backed off on trying to turn him into a LB/pass-rush DE jack-of-all-trades hybrid, and I hope very much that he does improve. He's been a bit of a disappointment so far, and I'd like to see him finally emerge as the sort of defensive force we all thought the Seahawks were getting when they drafted him back in '09.
The other two linebackers have pretty typical jobs for their positions (i.e. basic coverage and run support with the odd blitz thrown in), so I'm going to skip over them and head straight to the secondary. Pete Carroll likes to use big, physical CBs in his 4-3 under so that he can shake opposing wide receivers up through bump and run coverage. We should be seeing Brandon Browner jam a lot of guys at the line this year, but don't expect to see much of that from the other starting CB, Marcus Trufant. Trufant is not a particularly big or physical guy, so he tends to play off the line a bit, but he's excellent in man-to-man coverage and he makes good plays on the ball.
The downside to emphasizing bump & run coverage is that a wide receiver can slip the jam at the line and get deep down the field before the corner has time to recover and pursue. That's why it's so important that both safeties don't get caught out of position and can be counted on in coverage. After last year, we knew Earl Thomas had it in him to do just that (aside from a few rookie slip-ups), but the big surprise coming in to this season has been how well 2010 fifth-rounder Kam Chancellor has performed in coverage. Chancellor's abilities should allow the defense to free up Thomas more often and let him roam and ball-hawk a bit more (think Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu), plus Chancellor's ability to deliver bit hits already started to pay off. If you re-watch last week's game against the 49ers, pay close attention to how TE Vernon Davis begins to half-ass his routes whenever they take him into Chancellor's territory — you can't coach that kind of intimidation.
But how will this scheme do against Pittsburgh? Well, if the Steelers were still running their traditional smash-mouth offense that used a strong running attack to pull in defenders, then went over their heads with deep passes, I'd say this defense would do pretty well. However, the Steelers' current offensive coordinator, Bruce Arians, favors the pass in a big way; he was Peyton Manning's QB coach from 1998 – 2000, if that tells you anything. (You can find a great breakdown of the "snag" route concept Arians used to score the winning touchdown in Super Bowl XLIII here.) As you might imagine, this approach is not well liked by Steelers fans, but in all fairness Pittsburgh simply doesn't have a good enough o-line to dominate teams in the run game like they used to, plus they've got a lot of talent in their receiving corps.
Ultimately though, how the Seahawks' defense fares this Sunday will depend heavily on two things:
1) Will Chris Clemons and Alan Branch get to the QB on a regular basis? Even if they don't finish with a bunch of sacks, making Roethlisberger run for his life and/or forcing the Steelers' offense to keep an extra TE on the line or a RB or two in the backfield for additional protection would be just as effective.
2) How will Roethlisberger play? Will he focus and prepare, or will he phone it in and slump like he did last week against the Ravens? Did I mention that I don't like him?
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So there you have it: ask some questions, get some answers (eventually — sometimes I am slow). And hey, if I screw up and give you the wrong answers, or if you've just got something you'd like to add, don't hesitate to speak up! I promise I won't hold it against you, and it'll give me a chance to learn some things, too. Learning is a goodness.
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1 A brief list of non-football subjects people have told me I know something about:
-book binding & repair
-how not to grow tomatoes (seriously I have none, what gives)
-The Punisher
-old video games
-literature (ENGLISH IS TOO A REAL MAJOR, DAMN IT)
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To elucidate clinicopathologic manifestations of cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection.
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Eugene and Gerri Rosencrance celebrated their 50th anniversary on Oct. 19 at the Elks County Club during the wedding reception of their grandaughter, Jenna Rae Biller and Michael Lewis.
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Mental and physical preparation to defend yourself against another person intending to do bodily harm was, in a nutshell, the purpose of a 12-hour class I attended recently preparing students to get a license to carry a concealed weapon.
Known as a "concealed carry" class, the 12 hours of class time and hands-on practice contained entirely too much information to relate here.
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But I jotted down highlights as instructor Kent Nord taught from video, from the National Rifle Association Basic Pistol Shooting Course book and from his own knowledge.
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Nord invited me to attend the class to make people more aware of concealed carry laws and decisions.
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When Kent Nord first signed up to take a concealed carry course, he intended to gain some information that might be useful in his legal practice.
"When I originally took the training course, my intention was only to better my knowledge and help defend those who had concealed carry and were arrested for something that I thought would be frivolous," he said. "But as I got into it, I realized what a great value having concealed carry was."
But not only did he get a license himself, he decided to start teaching the course about exercising the
constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
A little more than a year later, the class is gaining popularity. He limits each class to 12 people.
"I've already run over 100 people through the basic course," he said. "I only teach once a month."
Nord said his wife and daughter are supporters of his efforts and have completed the class.
His 14-year-old daughter often assists with the shooting portion.
"She ends up shooting instead of doing targets for me," he said.
She's the youngest student he's taught, but she has to wait until she's 21 to get a license. The oldest has been a 78-year-old woman.
"I love the diversity of people that come in," Nord said. "The ladies in the class add something to the class, rather than just a bunch of guys."
About a third to a quarter of his students have been women, and 15-25 percent have never fired a handgun.
"Some have done it once or twice and some not for decades," he said.
His most experienced student was a retired military sharpshooter.
Nord said he imparts knowledge and education.
"I'm just a firm believer that there's no better way to protect yourself if you have the right training," he said. "I hope I never have to pull my gun. But I'm prepared to use it."
Tim Brown of Upper Sandusky, one of the students in a recent class, said he signed up to learn self-protection because he and friends frequently attend antique shows and gun shows.
"There may be times when we may be carrying a couple thousand dollars cash apiece," he said.
He said he also lives alone in the country and often gets people at his door who run out of gas or need other assistance.
"I learned a few more things about how to handle a firearm properly," Brown said. "I think there are things we should all understand about that class."
He said the main point the sticks in his mind is Nord's statement that people who carry handguns must be prepared to use them.
"If you pull that handgun out, you have to be prepared to use it," he said. "I spent a couple months thinking about whether or not I should take the class. I decided I should."
"The main thing is it's a big decision knowing if you have to pull the gun out to defend yourself," he said. "Somebody's going to die, and hopefully it isn't me."
Brown went a few days after class for the Wyandot County Sheriff's Office, filled out the paperwork, got his fingerprints scanned. By Friday afternoon he had his license.
"It depends on how long it takes the courts," he said. "And they got it done right away."
Brown said he has practiced taking his pistol with him to get accustomed to carrying it.
"I'm now observant of places (that are posted) that I can't carry," he said. "It makes you more aware of the places you're entering."
Sally Wagner of Tiffin, another student, said she took the class because a family member suffered bodily harm from an intruder at her home in another part of Ohio.
"It hit so close to home that I just felt like I needed to be secure in my own home," she said.
"The main things I learned was being familiar with it and not being so intimidated by a gun," she said. "Not to fear it, and learning how to handle it more safely, which is very important."
Wagner said she hasn't gone to get her license yet, but plans to soon.
"I have more security within myself to be able to use it if I had to," she said. "Heaven forbid if I would ever have to do that. But I would for the safety of my family."
Her daughter and son-in-law are planning to take the class, as is her husband, Mark.
"I never thought that I would ever do this," she said.
But that's not because she hasn't been around guns. "There's hunting background within my family big time," she said. "I wouldn't be afraid to use it now. That the biggest thing. My main thing is being safe within my home."
Russ Damman of Fremont took the course with his 21-year-old son, Ryan.
"Well, actually I did mine to be with my boy," Damman said. "It's just something you should do because of the way things are in this country. It's nothing in terms of a Rambo attitude. It's just a precaution.
"In all honesty, I didn't know what to expect going it into it," he said. "I would be considered a novice compared to my boy. I just pick up what I can from them guys."
He said he learned a lot.
"It was very informative to me," he said. "Mr. Nord was a very good teacher. I would highly recommend him."
Although father and son had planned to take the class elsewhere, the time had to be postponed because of Ryan's baseball-related activities at Ohio Northern University.
"Although he was second choice, if I had to do it again I'd choose Mr. Nord," Damman said. "He's our kind of guy, so he'd be my first choice now. After baseball season, we're looking into taking some of his more advanced classes."
He and Ryan now plan to go to the sheriff's office to get their licenses.
He said each person who carries a gun must mentally prepare themselves to pull the trigger if necessary.
"Actually pulling the trigger is about the middle of the process," he said.
First comes training and being prepared to handle a dangerous situation. Then comes acting during a situation. Then comes handling the after-effects.
"If you pull your gun in public, you're guaranteed to be taken into custody," he said.
At home it might be a different story.
"We now have the right to defend ourselves in our house and that even carries over into our car," he said. "The bad guy is presumed to be there illegally and we are presumed to be acting in self-defense."
I learned there are four levels of awareness.
The first level is unaware, "where most of the people are most of the time."
He encouraged people to move toward awareness, when they are aware of their surroundings and the possibility of danger.
At that stage, a noise or unusual circumstance might trigger the next stage, "alert."
Generally, alerts downgrade back to awareness, but sometimes they escalate to "alarm" when action is needed.
"When the economy goes down, break-ins go up," Nord said. "That's our goal for today. To move you from being unaware to aware and have a plan in place."
I used to walk around unaware most of the time, but I find I'm not much more aware of my surroundings since I took the class.
"We want to move you out of unawareness and start becoming more aware," he said. "Start role playing in your mind. "
For example, when you're sitting in a restaurant, where would be the safest place to sit?
He encouraged everyone to have a "safe room" in their home where they keep the equipment they'll need in an emergency.
"Charge your cell phone in your safe room," he said. "I encourage you to have your cell phone with you all the time. It's almost as important as having your gun with you."
That's where the gun safe belongs.
"I strongly encourage you not to have a loaded gun in your house that is not in a safe," he said. "They will find it."
Part of the mental preparation is thinking about a time when you might have to use your gun.
"You have to start thinking, 'Can I do this? Can I take the life of another?'" he said. "If you are not prepared to take the life of another, you should not carry a concealed weapon and you should not have a loaded gun in your home.
"If you can't make that decision, don't do it," he said.
Families should have a plan in case of intrusion just as they should have a plan in case of a fire, he said.
"Think of a gun as a last resort," he said.
"If you're forced to defend yourself, it's going to happen at very close distance, usually an arms-length away," he said. "It's going to happen very quickly and it's going to be extremely violent. That's what you have to be prepared for. Shoot to eliminate the threat."
Nord also said people who carry a gun must practice shooting on a regular basis - at least once a month.
"Self-defense shooting is different from target shooting," he said. "It's just like everything else. If you don't practice it, you're going to lose it."
Nord encouraged people to shoot outside in all different types of weather and temperatures because you never know when you might have to use your gun in adverse conditions.
"The bad guys sometimes use the weather as a cloaking device," he said.
Yes, Kent used "bad guys" frequently in reference to people who might be looking to rob you or rape you or have other ill intentions.
If you pull your gun and the intruder runs away, he suggested letting him go.
"It's not worth sacrificing your life," he said. "Every time I put that gun on my hip in the morning, I run through the same scenario."
The course went through basic knowledge of guns and gun handling, which I'm not going to go into too much. It included information such as the main parts of a gun, how they work, types of ammunition, types of powder and, of course, safety.
I learned more details on some of the points about firearms that had been kind of "fuzzy" inside my head. But the main point I remember from this section was: "Keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot."
Also, more obvious to me were pointing the gun in a safe direction and keeping the gun unloaded when not in use.
But carrying it for self-defense means it is in use.
We reviewed several types of guns and the best ones for self-defense as opposed to target shooting. Again, too much information to relate easily here.
In learning how to fire a handgun (which I had only done once before the class), I discovered something very important. I'm left-eye dominant, which means I must focus with my left eye to aim accurately.
In summary, we learned how to aim with sights, control breath, limit body movement, use a good grip and use trigger control.
The term "acquire the target" was new to me, which simply means see the target through the sights.
I learned shooting with arms fully extended is usually best for beginners to help with the timing on when the finger goes on the trigger.
But mostly, your technique has to be comfortable.
It ends with follow-through.
"It's putting all of this together so you repeat it over and over and over as quickly as possible," Nord said.
The best target to use for self-defense shooting is a sheet of typing paper.
"Any shot into center mass is a good hit," he said.
The goal is to develop a consistent habit, like a baseball pitcher who uses the same wind-up before each pitch.
"What we're trying to do is develop a habit until you don't have to think about it anymore," he said.
We practiced some indoor dry firing before we went outside in the very cold weather to practice on a range.
How did I do? Not bad at all.
When we returned to classroom to wrap up the day, we learned about legalities such as where you can and cannot carry a gun. For example, you can never carry a gun inside law enforcement stations, correctional institutions, airports, colleges or universities, daycare centers, government buildings or bars and restaurants that sell liquor by the glass.
Churches have the option of allowing guns.
You can't carry a gun inside a school, to a school activity, on a school bus, or on school property unless you are simply picking up a child and not getting out of the car.
This list isn't complete, but you get the idea.
The only government building where a gun can be carried is at rest facilities along major highways.
Private businesses must post a notice if they don't want people to carry concealed weapons on their property.
Nord handles it this way.
"If there is a private business that has a concealed carry sign up, I don't go there," he said. "I don't do business there."
He carries a business card with him that he gives provides to the owner or manager outlining the reasons they should allow guns.
To carry a gun on your person, it must be contained in a holster of some sort.
But, ladies, you can carry a gun in your person as long as it is closed in some fashion - for example, by zipper, button or snap.
To reiterate, much of the preparation for carrying a concealed weapon is mental.
"Just because someone's coming into your house doesn't mean you can blow them away," Nord said. "You have to be in imminent bodily harm."
Shooting is a last resort if you believe you are in imminent danger of being harmed.
"The last thing you really want to do is take somebody's life," he said.


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