Hello and welcome back to The Unleashed Podcast. I'm your host, Kristina Sjolund. I appreciate you taking the time to listen in today, and I'm excited to bring to you two very special people who have given me confidence in some areas of my life. We are talking about guns and the importance of knowing exactly how to handle your weapon. We are also talking about gun laws, especially those in Washington State. And sharing about women and guns with the founders of Adventure Protection, Curtis Bingham and his daughter Kelsey. Ready? Let's get started...
SHOWNOTES:
• It's a really interesting story. A lot of people come and ask us, Hey, so were you in the military? Were you in the police? Now, we have an interesting, interesting background as to how we got started in this. So, I grew up around firearms and it was something that I had gone out with my dad with and my grandpa, and when Becky, who's one of our instructors and also my wife, she had grown up on a ranch where the firearm was a tool, it was something that was used regularly. (3:34)
• So, I've got these guys, they don't even like it, because it is scary, because you know what guns can do, you know that the guns don't do it themselves, they don't pull their own trigger, that is the misconceptions. I guess that is the message that I want to hear from you is, what do you think is the first part of getting past that fear so that you can be, so you can have that confidence and that fluent usability with a weapon? I think it comes down to education, which is kind of a broad subject, broad term, but what we've seen, for my own self, my own skills, as I've been introduced to new guns, as I've been teaching these classes, as I've seen all of the women that have come through our classes, really the biggest fundamental is education about how the gun works and what will make it fire, what won't make it fire, how to load and unload safely, and that foundation of the safety rules. (9:56)
• We absolutely love her for the courage that she showed, these experiences here where people are breaking into their homes, they're hiding, they're hiding behind one woman who looks very nice, very well dressed up, that is in front of the peoples camera here, and they've got two other people that are hiding behind the door... Or hiding around the corner or something like that. Waiting for you to open up your door trying to help a well-dressed woman that's on your doorstep. And then once you open up the door, they try to push through and they've got spray paint, they're trying to blind you, or even fire arms, and they're trying to get in. (16:03)
• They always give me a bad time, but they know, they know they always leave that seat available for me that's facing the door, But we went into this one restaurant once about a year or two ago, and I sat with my back to the door. But there was a group of police officers who were sitting, and I was facing the police officers, and the girls said, What's wrong, you're not sitting facing the door? And I'm like, But I'm facing them and if they move, like if something happens, they're going first, so I'm always that thinking forward. (30:50)
• They get started with self-protection, and some of them, like you said earlier, are interested in overcoming their fear. We've had people say that, Hey, I've always wanted to try this, but I've been afraid to do so. My husband has firearms, I've never liked them, but I would never have come here except for someone was robbed or even killed a mile from my home. And so people are facing their fears, like Kelsey said, people are seeing some violence around them, that they are realizing that they are powerless to stop on their own. And they're seeing that in some cases, the emergency services are powerless to stop, and so they're saying, I need to protect myself against the violence. (38:03)
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WHEN DOES IT AIR...
DECEMBER 02, 2020