I would like to share with you a few of the life lessons I’ve learned over the last 18 years of my career about my perception of the Real World:

• There isn’t always a happy ending, in fact most of the time the bad guy usually wins.
• When you need a police officer they are never around, and when you only have seconds to react it takes them minutes to respond.
• When you think things cant get any worse, they always do, and they usually come in threes.
• When you become a victim of a crime, you have only seconds to make a difference in your life or the lives of your loved ones and you don’t get 10 takes to get it right (like in a movie), you only get one.
• Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
• Situational Awareness is as important as carrying a gun.
• Tell me who you hang around with and Ill tell you who everybody thinks you are.
• Don’t judge a book by its cover.
• Never under estimate your opponent no matter his/her size or weight.
• If you run every time you have a problem, you will be running for the rest of your life,  and I don't know about you, but I hate running.
• Everybody that carries a gun has a plan until they get shot at. 
• The faint zipping sound of a round as it passes your head is the most humbling experience that a man will ever feel in his lifetime.
• And last but not least I have come to realize that we live in the greatest country in the world, a country where free men have sacrificed there lives so that we can have the freedoms we have today, and this country gives us the right to a carry a gun, do not give evil men and women the advantage, always carry a gun so that you can protect yourself and your family from those willing to to do harm.