I have posted this for a couple reasons. One is the illustration of where and how a well trained and sensible approach is taken to personal defense. That facility near Piru, is exactly where D_L and I trained, shot and eventually became instructors ourselves. Not so active anymore, life moves on. But I have mentioned the place enough I wanted to share it in a Page drawn from the Los Angeles Times.

Jonathan Fischer is never sure who’s going to be more surprised when he, as he likes to put it, comes out of the gun closet — the gun aficionados who find out he’s gay or the gay friends who find out he likes shooting guns.

When the 38-year-old television editor showed up last month to a defensive handgun class near Piru with a Glock 27 pistol on his hip, he wore a T-shirt sporting a rainbow-colored AK-47. His “gay-K-47,” he said.

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