Home Defense
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"Paladin's Home Defense class is superb! Their training for situational awareness, mindset, and
how to properly set up your house are high points." — P.W. (Firearms Industry Professional)
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Class Length: 8 hours (one
day)
Class Description
Optional NRA Certification
Class Schedule
How to Apply
Home Defense is based on the NRA Personal Protection In
The Home class but we enhance it to prepare you for the
specific realities of home invasion in South Carolina and our
part of the country. In this class we take you
far beyond your CWP
class and handgun basics to prepare you through real
world scenarios and techniques. As always we tailor the class to
our students' needs and
capabilities.
 South Carolina is among those states with different laws affecting
personal protection inside the home and outside it.
It's therefore important for you to know and
understand that you have different legal rights and responsibilities
depending on where you are at the time of an
attack. This class focuses on personal protection inside
your home.
We explain the common law concept of the Castle
Doctrine generally and the statutory laws in South Carolina
specifically.
So here's where you learn to protect yourself and
your family against home invasion and life-threatening
intrusions inside and around your home and workplace in South
Carolina and neighboring states.
The
practical goal of our Home Defense class is to develop your knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and
efficient use of a firearm for protection of yourself and your
family in your home—and to provide you with knowledge of your rights
and responsibilities for self-defense as a law-abiding citizen
at home.
 Our Home Defense class is complete in one
day. We hold this class at our facility in greater Columbia, South Carolina,
but you don't have to be a South Carolina resident to take
this
class or any of our other classes. We welcome residents of every state.
Email us now to attend a
Home Defense class.
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Class Description
 "Avoid.
Evade. Prevail." Our Home Defense class focuses
on how you can avoid the likelihood of home invasions,
how you can evade their deadly consequences,
and how you can win deadly force confrontations in
your
home or office within the context of South Carolina law.
Our
goal is for you to avoid, evade, and prevail inside your home or office
without being destroyed by either the criminal or the criminal justice system.
We start in the classroom with a review of gun safety and
spend the morning on vital considerations such as:
- how you prepare for potential deadly force
confrontations:
mindset, skillset, and toolset
- how you avoid and prepare for violent intrusions
including home invasion
- how you survive the psychological, emotional, moral, and legal contexts of
deadly force confrontations
- how you use the conditions of readiness to avoid, evade,
and prevail
- how you use cover and concealment in your home and
workplace
- how you balance speed and accuracy: distance, shooting positions, and combat accuracy
- how you remain a responsible ciitizen within the law: the judicious use of deadly force
 In our classroom during the morning you'll experience "shoot/no shoot"
video scenarios inside
the home. We'll explain how to choose, equip, and use a "safe room"
in your own home. We'll provide an example home invasion plan that can
guide your family's quick response to a sudden home invasion.
We'll explain how to avoid the problems you might face when
you make a 911 call under
the stress of a violent intrusion. We'll show you how to make an
effective 911 call. We'll
also show you how to prepare
and use a "House Guide" that can get first responders
to your aid faster while you're making the 911 call. We'll explain how to
talk to the police who arrive in response to your 911 call.
 We'll present the
common law Castle
Doctrine and explain South Carolina's
Protection of Persons and Property Act,
which gives you expanded legal
protection under the Castle Doctrine when you defend your home
in South Carolina and other states with similar laws.
We'll teach you the crucial differences between cover and
concealment and we'll teach you how to
use cover and concealment within your home. We'll also teach you
how to identify the
"fatal funnel" that can get you killed in your own home
and how to avoid it. And we'll
introduce you to the OODA loop that lets you take the fight
away from your attacker and prevail.
So in our classroom we teach you how to
do what can save your life and your family and your home in the
real world.
 After lunch
we spend the
entire afternoon on the shooting range. As always we start with
gun safety. Then we do a shooting warmup to get you started
the right way. We apply
the techniques we introduced in the classroom and we explore
specific
needs as real situations unfold.
Bring plenty of ammunition.
You'll learn the most important
shooting techniques you need to protect yourself at home and in
your office
and workplace. You get real-world applications.
Among
the advanced techniques you'll learn are the Tueller Drill and "How close is too
close?" We teach you to use a flash sight picture, one- and two-handed shooting,
dominant- and support-handed shooting, malfunction drills, and
Chuck Taylor's speed rock.
 We'll teach you the speed rock
as Chuck
Taylor himself taught it to us. You'll shoot from behind cover
and concealment, and you'll learn what a bad guy can see of you
when you think you're shooting while hidden. But we
never push you to do what you can't do or don't want to do.
Our Home Defense training class has six major parts. We enhance
that class for civilians
who want to live responsibly while protecting themselves
and
their family inside their home. And we adjust according to the circumstances
and enrollment in each class. Here's the core:
1. Defensive Shooting
2. Basic Defensive Pistol Skills
3. Firearms and the Law: Possession, Ownership, and the Use of
Deadly Force
4. Strategies for Home Safety and Responding to
a Violent Confrontation
5. The Home Defense Handgun
6.
Shooting Activities
We enhance that core as appropriate to the individual students
in every class.
We take you as you are and teach you to win.
Our
Personal Protection In The Home classes are relatively small. We provide individual instruction and give
individual attention within the
context of that small class. But it's not just a
weapons manipulation class. You don't need to be an
athlete or an expert
shooter or a marksman to take this class. We work with real
people in real situations and avoid fantasies. You can take this
class more than once if you want.
On completion of our Home Defense
class you receive our signed and sealed Certificate of
Instruction that attests to your participation in the Tueller
Drill. It could be one of the most important training documents
in your records if you need to explain why you had to resort to the use of a
firearm to defend yourself—inside or outside your home.
Optional NRA Certification
As an option you may choose to extend the Home Defense class so
you also earn
NRA Personal Protection In The Home certification after passing
an in-class written examination and meeting NRA standards for
the class. The optional NRA certification is a prerequisite for
NRA certified Basic Pistol Instructors to attend an NRA Personal
Protection In The Home Instructor course.
NRA Personal Protection In The Home is a student-level
Firearms Training class, not an Instructor Training class. The
student-level Personal Protection In The Home class is the pre
course qualification required for NRA certified Basic Pistol
Instructors to attend an NRA Personal Protection In The Home
Instructor training class.
Of course students who do not intend to become instructors may also earn the optional
NRA certification in this class, but of course that optional certification does not qualify them as instructors.
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Home Defense class.
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Class Schedule
Here are the currently scheduled Home Defense classes.
We schedule Home Defense classes in the
greater Columbia, SC, area several times a year. Email us if you want
to take a Home Defense class even if you
prefer a class not yet on our schedule. We add classes from time
to time as circumstances permit.
How to Apply
Email us now to attend a
Home Defense class. Please be sure to include your
telephone number(s) so we can call to prequalify you for the
class, determine your needs, and answer your
questions. We want you to succeed.
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