Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Massad Ayoob’s Deadly Force, 2nd Edition available at Gun-DigestStore.com. It has been edited to fit this format.
I’m not Moses, let alone God, but the following 10 bits of advice are written in stone nonetheless. Not by God but by the vastly powerful mechanisms of logic, law, and reality.
COMMANDMENT I: IF YOU CHOOSE TO CARRY, ALWAYS CARRY AS MUCH AS IS POSSIBLE
Hollywood actors get to see the script beforehand, and nothing is fired at them but blanks. You don’t have either luxury. Criminals attack people in times and places where they don’t think the victims will be
