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Originally posted by egregore:
It is always a good idea to keep your strong hand free as much as possible. For example, if you carry an item or items that don't need both hands, carry them in your weak hand.

• It makes me aware that something might be up. She does not have to say anything.
  
  
• It lets me know where to look -- opposite side of where she is.
  
  
• It gets her out of the way in the event that I would need to draw and aim.

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Originally posted by Pale Horse:
No. Where I walk in relation to them depends on where we are. I am almost always behind them. Sometimes directly, sometimes off to one side or another. I almost always get in the car last and sometimes walk them to the passenger side and the kids both get in that door with the wife up front.

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Originally posted by jljones:
This thread reminds me of the karate teacher who asked a student to attack him, and then the student does and punches him in the face. The teacher then goes "Hit me like this" and demonstrates how and when he wants to be punched.

Where the wife/kids/significant other are located really doesn't matter in the real world, unless you know where the attack is going to come from. And in that case, they shouldn't be there in the first place.

There must be some far more gangster people that inhabit the internet, because I generally don't go places at times where "leaving my gun hand free" is all that important. When I do go these places, I take a rifle, a plate carrier, and am not really worried about any of the other stuff.

This "Gray man" EDC special forces operator stuff gets a bit much.

-Keep your head up and out of your phone.
-Don't go places at times where bad shit happens.
-Carry a gun that you can shoot fast and accurate.
-A good run is always better than a bad stand.
-Be a good witness.
-Use common sense.

Follow those simple rules, and you'll be fine.

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Originally posted by Outnumbered:

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Originally posted by jljones:
This thread reminds me of the karate teacher who asked a student to attack him, and then the student does and punches him in the face. The teacher then goes "Hit me like this" and demonstrates how and when he wants to be punched.

Where the wife/kids/significant other are located really doesn't matter in the real world, unless you know where the attack is going to come from. And in that case, they shouldn't be there in the first place.

There must be some far more gangster people that inhabit the internet, because I generally don't go places at times where "leaving my gun hand free" is all that important. When I do go these places, I take a rifle, a plate carrier, and am not really worried about any of the other stuff.

This "Gray man" EDC special forces operator stuff gets a bit much.

-Keep your head up and out of your phone.
-Don't go places at times where bad shit happens.
-Carry a gun that you can shoot fast and accurate.
-A good run is always better than a bad stand.
-Be a good witness.
-Use common sense.

Follow those simple rules, and you'll be fine.

I'm not a gangster, grey man, karate teacher/student, mall ninja, and I don't play one on TV or the internet.

I'm just a dude who went for a walk with his wife, in a good neighborhood, during daylight hours. And almost got chomped by a big, bad-ass Rottie/Pit mix looking dog. I really wished at the time that my wife was walking on my left, so I had my gun hand free. Is that wrong or something?

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by Outnumbered:

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Originally posted by jljones:
This thread reminds me of the karate teacher who asked a student to attack him, and then the student does and punches him in the face. The teacher then goes "Hit me like this" and demonstrates how and when he wants to be punched.

Where the wife/kids/significant other are located really doesn't matter in the real world, unless you know where the attack is going to come from. And in that case, they shouldn't be there in the first place.

There must be some far more gangster people that inhabit the internet, because I generally don't go places at times where "leaving my gun hand free" is all that important. When I do go these places, I take a rifle, a plate carrier, and am not really worried about any of the other stuff.

This "Gray man" EDC special forces operator stuff gets a bit much.

-Keep your head up and out of your phone.
-Don't go places at times where bad shit happens.
-Carry a gun that you can shoot fast and accurate.
-A good run is always better than a bad stand.
-Be a good witness.
-Use common sense.

Follow those simple rules, and you'll be fine.

I'm not a gangster, grey man, karate teacher/student, mall ninja, and I don't play one on TV or the internet.

I'm just a dude who went for a walk with his wife, in a good neighborhood, during daylight hours. And almost got chomped by a big, bad-ass Rottie/Pit mix looking dog. I really wished at the time that my wife was walking on my left, so I had my gun hand free. Is that wrong or something?

Again, blanket premonitions do little or no good. Because one thing happened, changing the way you walk is pretty pointless.

Having your gun hand "free" does you zero good if the attack is from the left, and your insistence on having your gun hand "free" just put your loved one in the line of fire. The true issue is teaching her not to latch on to you, and she stays wherever she stays and you adapt. SWAT teams, at least the competent ones, don't have a "you go this way, I'll go that way" rigid plan. We learned in the 90s that only led to getting people hurt. Worry less about where people are standing, and more on them not being an issue and not going places where its an issue.