435v2 - Bright Lights for Personal Defense

Do you carry a light for personal defense? If you do, what light have you selected? How do you carry it? Where does it rank in importance in your EDC? In today's episode Richard and I talk about things like: How Richard and I met in real life and social media safety The flashlight revolution The Beginnings of Flashlights Maglite Streamlight SL20 Rechargeable Surefire 6P Lumens is all the focus but there are more aspects to a quality light Candela - Candlepower "peak beam intensity" measures the largest reflected intensity. Lumens - Total amount of light - measures one moment in time and all of the light that is output. How lumens and candela work together Standards - ANSI/Neema/Plato FL1 Standards and how they are helping you to make good choices when it comes to lights Problems with FL1 standards - The runtime issue Tlr 6 Review and Graph GHG - What makes for a good light My EDC Flashlight Batteries and how they can improve the performance of your light Lithium is the way to go. Cr123 AAA AA How do you select a good self-defense/personal protection light? Specific recommendations: Elzetta Streamlight Protac HL SHOT Show - coverage Exclusive Patron Only Content Popularity does not equal expertise Influence comes with responsibility Credentials aren't necessarily important either Skepticism - Is it a bad thing? "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." - Thomas Jefferson The source of our Rights Federalists - Whatever we write down limits us to what we write down. Anti-Federalists - All governments eventually restrict rights so we need a Bill of Rights. Scalia opinion in Heller Ruger - a stock report on rgr Important links for the SSA Podcast: Please consider subscribing to the Safety Solutions Academy Podcast by heading to SafetySolutionsAcademy.com/itunes. By subscribing you will be sure that you don't miss a single episode. I would also appreciate it if you would take the time to leave a review and a rating. Please let me and others know what you thing about the Safety Solutions Academy Podcast. The feedback helps me to create better content and it helps other folks figure out if the SSA Podcast is worth downloading. Again, just head to SafetySolutionsAcademy.com/itunes and leave your feedback. The SSA Podcast is sponsored by Safety Solutions Academy and you the listeners. If you would like to support the SSA Podcast just head to SafetySolutionsAcademy.com/support and you can learn about how you can become a Patron of the Safety Solutions Academy Podcast for as little as $1 a month. Every little bit helps, so consider becoming a Patron today! Don't forget there is a ton of quality content available through SSA. A great place to start is SafetySolutionsAcademy.com . Make sure to check out our blog and podcast content as well as the main training courses that we offer. You can find us on FaceBook at: Paul Carlson SSAPodcast Safety Solutions Academy On IG you can find me at Paul_SSA We are getting ready to spool up our YouTube channel again as the weather starts to look better so make sure to

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435v2 - Bright Lights for Personal Defense is an episode from The Safety Solutions Academy Podcast by Paul Carlson.

This episode is 01:48:00 long.

This episode was published on Nov 7, 2017.

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