YOUR WARDROBE DICTATES YOUR WORDS: How You Carry Affects How You Communicate

This week I touch on some considerations about how your communication and awareness skills have to change, depending on how accessible your defensive tools are.

Sure, it would be great if we could go through life with our preferred carry setup that we practice all the time. The one that’s optimized for comfort, speed, and accessibility.

Sadly for many of us that isn’t a reality. Have you given any thought to how you might VERBALLY create an opportunity that would allow you to access something carried in deep concealment?

Are there alternate tools you keep staged to help create that window?

The Suited Shootist
Alex Sansone took his first formal pistol class in 2009, and has since accumulated almost 500 total hours of open enrollment training from many of the nation's top instructors including Massad Ayoob, Craig Douglas, Tom Givens, Gabe White, Cecil Burch, Chuck Haggard, Darryl Bolke, and many others. Spending his professional life in the corporate world, Alex quickly realized incongruities between "best practices" in the defensive world, and the practical realities of his professional and social limitations. "I've never carried a gun professionally. I'm just a yuppie suburbanite that happens to live an armed lifestyle. Having worked in the corporate arena for the last decade, I've discovered that a lot of the "requirements" and norms of gun carriers at large aren't necessarily compatible with that professional environment. I also have a pretty diverse social background, having grown up in the Northeast, and there are many people in my life that are either gun-agnostic or uncomfortable with the idea of private gun ownership. This has afforded me not only insights into how we are perceived by different subcultures, but how to manage and interact with people that may not share your point of view without coming across as combative or antisocial. This is why my focus is the overlooked social aspects of the armed lifestyle."