Defensive Living: Attitudes, Tactics & Proper Handgun Use to Secure Your Personal Well-Being [Paperback]

Ed Lovette (Author), Dave Spaulding (Author), Bruce Siddle (Foreword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1889031267 | ISBN-13: 978-1889031262 | Publication Date: January 2000

Imagine a defensive training guide that has the informational firepower to keep cops safe presented in a way that's practical for your family to use to protect themselves, too. Filled with 50+ yrs of hard-earned, expert-level LE & military training experience, this treasure chest of self-help techniques. Learn pre-attack signals:

- home protection vs. home defense
- nine ways to ensure self-protection readiness
- the life-changing "X's & O's Awareness Test."

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Looseleaf Law Publications (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889031267
• ISBN-13: 978-1889031262
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,044,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading, July 18, 2000

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D. Martin "Den" (Liverpool, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Defensive Living: Attitudes, Tactics & Proper Handgun Use to Secure Your Personal Well-Being (Paperback)

Most books on self protection, especially those relating to armed confrontations, tend to focus on hardware, the equipment and the techniques.This book is different. Ed Lovette and Dave Spaulding give a concise and practical guide to the software aspect of violent confrontations. Mental preparation, situational awareness and winning attitude are presented in a way that allows the reader to apply these aspects. The physical skills and equipment considerations are discussed, but the main theme of DEFENSIVE LIVING is the adoption of a "tactical lifestyle" which allows anticipation of an encounter. Throughout the book the voice of experience is heard. The material presented is not theory it is the result of hard-won, hands-on experience. To sum up, we need this kind of information, we need to understand it, to apply it, to live it. It's never been better presented than in DEFENSIVE LIVING. Essential reading matter for times like this.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction, July 24, 2006

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Lodge2 (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Defensive Living: Preserving Your Personal Safety Through Awareness, Attitude & Armed Action, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

The book covers most of the important issues, however, it does not give adequate detail on any of them. If you want a broad overview of those things you should consider, this is a good place to start. If you are looking for specifics, you will have to follow-up this book with several others that contain more details.

The focus is on awareness and avoidance. Discussion of firearms only makes up a small portion of this book. For those interested in pursuing self defense firearms, Dave Spaulding's Handgun Combatives would be a good follow-up book to read.

A high point is the short discussion on night shooting. This is the first book I have seen that gives clear pictues of all the generally accepted methods of holding a flashlight and a handgun at the same time.

Worth reading if you are starting to think about what you can do to enhance your personal security.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Book For Anyone Interested in Living Safely, April 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Defensive Living: Attitudes, Tactics & Proper Handgun Use to Secure Your Personal Well-Being (Paperback)

I was fortunate enough to see an advance copy of this book. It's the finest distillation of over sixty combined years of experience on the hardest streets and darkest back alleys in the US and abroad. Ed Lovette and Dave Spaulding bring the knowledge they earned in Special Forces, the CIA, and elite police units to the average reader in a clear and simple format that is immediately usable. Buy one for yourself and buy another for everyone you care for.