Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Robin Evans On Educating Women To Use Firearms And Self Defense With "Chicks With Triggers"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Warning everybody, it's dj n V Charlemagne the gud We
- 0:07Speaker 2: are the breakfast Club.
- 0:08Speaker 1: We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed, Founder.
- 0:11Speaker 2: And CEO of Chicks with Triggers Firearms Academy, Robin Evans.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Welcome, Robin.
- 0:17Speaker 1: How you doing.
- 0:18Speaker 4: I'm doing good?
- 0:19Speaker 1: How are you good? Good?
- 0:19Speaker 3: Good?
- 0:20Speaker 1: Did they patch you down before you got here today?
- 0:21Speaker 5: No?
- 0:22Speaker 4: And thankfully you know.
- 0:24Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good thing a bad thing,
- 0:25Speaker 1: in safe or not. I don't know.
- 0:27Speaker 3: Surprise, surprise, Tell the people what Chicks with Triggers isis.
- 0:31Speaker 5: With Triggers is a self defense company that I started
- 0:34Speaker 5: down in Greenville, South Carolina. We deal primarily with firearms,
- 0:37Speaker 5: and we teach women how to use guns. We teach
- 0:39Speaker 5: women how to get certified to get pistol permits. We
- 0:41Speaker 5: teach women self defense. We teach women how to use knives, basically,
- 0:45Speaker 5: how to stay alive.
- 0:46Speaker 1: No, I agree with it one thousand percent.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Right before you walk and I was telling Charlemagne that
- 0:51Speaker 2: my wife carries Okay, my assistant carries I carry okay,
- 0:56Speaker 2: and my daughter who's twenty one, I have her taken
- 0:59Speaker 2: the training class right now, so she can carry.
- 1:01Speaker 3: So they know how to use.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Though we go to range very often, okay, very often.
- 1:08Speaker 3: We do.
- 1:09Speaker 5: But are you are y'all good because a lot of
- 1:11Speaker 5: people be at the range and they be and they
- 1:12Speaker 5: looking crazy.
- 1:13Speaker 2: They do they don't, they don't use. But you know
- 1:16Speaker 2: what I'm not, I'm not afraid to ask for help.
- 1:19Speaker 2: My dad is a retired police officer, so he goes
- 1:21Speaker 2: with me sometimes.
- 1:22Speaker 3: You know, y'all got that in coom.
- 1:23Speaker 2: It shows how to aim and in this, that and
- 1:25Speaker 2: the other, and it's very important. One thing my dad
- 1:27Speaker 2: would would always tell me guns weren't a big thing
- 1:30Speaker 2: in my house because I guess he was always open
- 1:33Speaker 2: to sharing information about firearms, so it was never a
- 1:37Speaker 2: thing when when I see my dad's going like, oh
- 1:38Speaker 2: my god, it was dad's fire arms.
- 1:40Speaker 5: Unfortunately, and a lot of black like a lot of
- 1:42Speaker 5: black households, guns are not talked about, like you can't
- 1:44Speaker 5: have them and stuff like that. But in the like
- 1:48Speaker 5: in my in my experience in the white community is
- 1:50Speaker 5: all the kid we started five years old and down
- 1:52Speaker 5: in South Carolina, at five years old, they have the
- 1:54Speaker 5: shooting camps and you go to the shooting camp and
- 1:56Speaker 5: then it's all summer. Then we go to the range.
- 1:58Speaker 5: But the black kids aren't in that yet, correct, And
- 2:00Speaker 5: so the black and brown kids, I'm trying to get
- 2:02Speaker 5: them into it too, because at some point, like you said,
- 2:04Speaker 5: you got to learn about it, because if not, then
- 2:06Speaker 5: the streets are gonna teach you about it. So if
- 2:07Speaker 5: either your parents are gonna teach you or the internet's
- 2:09Speaker 5: gonna teach you, and we can't have that happen.
- 2:11Speaker 2: The scariest thing about firearms and especially all the laws
- 2:13Speaker 2: is the law's changed so much, right, and that is
- 2:16Speaker 2: the biggest thing.
- 2:16Speaker 4: No one tells you about it.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Nobody tells research.
- 2:18Speaker 2: It, and that is the biggest fear I have with
- 2:20Speaker 2: my daughter carrying a firearm, or my wife carrying a firemarm,
- 2:23Speaker 2: or even myself because the law something will change over
- 2:26Speaker 2: night and you don't know, and you would drive you
- 2:27Speaker 2: with your firearm and then you get locked up and
- 2:29Speaker 2: there's no way around it.
- 2:30Speaker 1: That is the scariest thing. So what do you see as.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Problems when you face with trying to teach all these
- 2:35Speaker 2: not only men, but people of color about firearms.
- 2:38Speaker 5: So I make sure that because everybody says they got
- 2:41Speaker 5: a gun, but nobody knows how to use it, nobody
- 2:42Speaker 5: knows the laws associated with it. And I always say,
- 2:45Speaker 5: ignorance of the law is not an excuse, right, They
- 2:47Speaker 5: still lock you up regardless.
- 2:48Speaker 4: So I make sure that I keep everybody updated.
- 2:50Speaker 5: As soon as something changes, it's on my social media,
- 2:52Speaker 5: so people know, hey, this is changing, we need to
- 2:54Speaker 5: do this, we need to do that. I tell people
- 2:56Speaker 5: all the time how to carry in their cars. I mean,
- 2:58Speaker 5: the state of South Carolina, we don't need a permit
- 2:59Speaker 5: to have a gun, Like you need a permit to
- 3:01Speaker 5: lead the state, but you don't need a permit in
- 3:03Speaker 5: the state.
- 3:03Speaker 4: Of South Carolina.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Newsey, New York you do.
- 3:05Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, y'all not gun friendly at all. But
- 3:07Speaker 4: we're working on that.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Jersey Jersey, but.
- 3:09Speaker 4: Yeah, Jersey's a lot better. But we're working on New York.
- 3:11Speaker 5: But so I try to keep I of try to
- 3:13Speaker 5: keep them up to date with how to do stuff,
- 3:15Speaker 5: because unfortunately, we don't get the black and brown communities
- 3:18Speaker 5: don't get the benefit of the doubt like other communities, right,
- 3:21Speaker 5: and as soon as something happens with us, that's a
- 3:22Speaker 5: felony where and other you know, in other cultures, that's
- 3:25Speaker 5: maybe an intervention program of some sort. So I try
- 3:28Speaker 5: to keep everybody up to date, because if not, if
- 3:30Speaker 5: I don't tell you, they're not gonna look it up.
- 3:32Speaker 4: And the police, damn sure ain't gonna tell you. And
- 3:33Speaker 4: now you screw it up.
- 3:34Speaker 3: You know, South Carolina has been in the top ten
- 3:36Speaker 3: states of women murdered by men for the last twenty
- 3:39Speaker 3: seven years. You know, many of those years they were
- 3:41Speaker 3: number one on the list. And I've heard you say
- 3:43Speaker 3: that violence against women is a public health issue.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Yes, why you consider it.
- 3:46Speaker 5: That, because it's it's I feel like women are the
- 3:49Speaker 5: especially black women, are the most unprotected in this whole
- 3:52Speaker 5: entire country. In South Carolina. Domestic violence is a joke.
- 3:56Speaker 5: It really is a joke. I've had women that have
- 3:58Speaker 5: come to me like they've been beat and face broken,
- 4:01Speaker 5: all kinds of stuff, and the guy got a thousand
- 4:03Speaker 5: dollars fine and was sent home.
- 4:05Speaker 4: It's not taken seriously. And so that's that's where ICON
- 4:07Speaker 4: come in.
- 4:07Speaker 5: And I'm trying to teach women how to defend themselves,
- 4:09Speaker 5: like we don't need a man to defend us, because
- 4:11Speaker 5: clearly y'all not doing it right.
- 4:12Speaker 4: There's a lot of men in the communities.
- 4:14Speaker 5: That talk about protecting black women, protecting women, protecting women,
- 4:16Speaker 5: and then they don't do anything. They're actually the ones
- 4:19Speaker 5: hurting us. And so I'm trying to teach women that
- 4:21Speaker 5: you don't need anybody. We don't need the cops, we
- 4:22Speaker 5: don't need anybody. All we need is a gun and
- 4:24Speaker 5: learn how to use it and we can be our
- 4:25Speaker 5: own first respond And.
- 4:26Speaker 3: Pisces you off when you see these videos of like
- 4:28Speaker 3: women being assaulted by men and the men just standing around.
- 4:31Speaker 4: Yeah, and they just they just recorded and they don't
- 4:33Speaker 4: do anything.
- 4:34Speaker 5: And then everybody's in the comments talking about what they
- 4:36Speaker 5: should have done, but actually no one did anything. But
- 4:39Speaker 5: on the flip side of that, right on, there's a
- 4:41Speaker 5: there's a there's a double edged store because on the
- 4:42Speaker 5: flip side, then the government will come and now you're
- 4:45Speaker 5: in jail because you were trying to help somebody else.
- 4:46Speaker 5: So it's kind of like a flip side of what
- 4:48Speaker 5: you want to do because you thought you was helping
- 4:50Speaker 5: and now you're in the jam.
- 4:51Speaker 2: If a woman is listening right now and they're interested
- 4:55Speaker 2: in maybe a class, and if they're not from South
- 4:57Speaker 2: Carolina and they're from it, what first of all, what
- 4:59Speaker 2: gun would you advise for a woman's person.
- 5:02Speaker 5: Nope, because I believe that everybody should pick out that gun.
- 5:04Speaker 5: So here's the thing about guns. Guns are non refundable, right,
- 5:07Speaker 5: so you have to try them before you buy them.
- 5:09Speaker 5: What works for me may not work for him, may
- 5:11Speaker 5: not work for your your daughter, your wife, whoever. So
- 5:13Speaker 5: I say that a lot of people go towards small guns,
- 5:16Speaker 5: and they'll say, oh, I want to buy a small
- 5:18Speaker 5: gun because if it's in my purse, blose block.
- 5:20Speaker 4: Smaller guns are harder to shoot.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Smaller guns.
- 5:23Speaker 4: We need bigger guns. We can handle bigger guns.
- 5:25Speaker 5: But a lot of women don't believe that they can
- 5:27Speaker 5: because when they go into these rangers, when they go
- 5:28Speaker 5: into these gun stores, all of them are ran by men,
- 5:31Speaker 5: and the men take them to the purple guns and
- 5:33Speaker 5: the pink guns and the little the little piece of
- 5:35Speaker 5: shit guns, and they don't matter. That's exactly where they
- 5:37Speaker 5: take them. And we can handle better than that. So
- 5:40Speaker 5: what I carry is a Smith and Wesson shield. Plus
- 5:43Speaker 5: I carry that it's a nine millimeter, but I mean
- 5:45Speaker 5: I could bust your ass, but a three eighty, you
- 5:46Speaker 5: know what I mean, So it doesn't really matter.
- 5:48Speaker 4: I feel like we it has to fit the person.
- 5:50Speaker 4: We have to try it out.
- 5:51Speaker 3: Y'all need to know, Robin's not a first generation shooters.
- 5:53Speaker 3: You come from a long line of ASKI because they
- 5:55Speaker 3: shooters just want to put that up.
- 5:56Speaker 1: I was gonna ask.
- 5:57Speaker 2: You know a lot of people feel like they need
- 5:59Speaker 2: a big gun. They need a forty caliber forty five?
- 6:02Speaker 2: Can you tell the reason why, Like I carry nine
- 6:04Speaker 2: milimeters And the reason i carry nine milimeter two is
- 6:07Speaker 2: if I'm in the house and I gotta shoot somebody
- 6:08Speaker 2: in the house, I don't want it to go through
- 6:09Speaker 2: the wall and.
- 6:10Speaker 5: I need a little deuce in your boot, which, well,
- 6:13Speaker 5: you know what, So now milimeter is very popular, right,
- 6:16Speaker 5: but then you I mean, people get killed with twenty twos.
- 6:18Speaker 4: You know, I have some women that twenty two is
- 6:20Speaker 4: where they are right now.
- 6:21Speaker 2: He used to laugh at me, right because back in
- 6:22Speaker 2: New York you could not you know, you couldn't carry
- 6:24Speaker 2: a gun. But in New York was very, very deadly,
- 6:27Speaker 2: very very a lot of crime as growing up as
- 6:29Speaker 2: a teen, right, So we.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Used to go to the club. We used to I
- 6:31Speaker 1: used to carry like a little two.
- 6:32Speaker 3: Two in his manolo blonics my shoe because that would
- 6:37Speaker 3: be the only way that I can walk around with
- 6:38Speaker 3: the gun.
- 6:39Speaker 2: And they made fun of me, but they don't know
- 6:40Speaker 2: that the two two could do. Damn is like anything else.
- 6:42Speaker 4: Stand in front of it. I bet you he won't
- 6:43Speaker 4: stand in front.
- 6:44Speaker 3: I bet you couldn't get it out of his boots.
- 6:47Speaker 4: I can't.
- 6:51Speaker 5: So I think that the gun has to fit the
- 6:53Speaker 5: person and we won't know until we try. So like
- 6:55Speaker 5: from my company, I offer a service called Try before
- 6:58Speaker 5: you Buy, where I bring eight to ten one of
- 7:00Speaker 5: the most popular concealed carry guns and we sit there
- 7:02Speaker 5: one on one and we try every single one. So
- 7:04Speaker 5: that way, when a woman goes to the gun store,
- 7:06Speaker 5: they are confident in what they came to buy, because
- 7:08Speaker 5: if not, they're gonna try to talk you into this
- 7:09Speaker 5: little pink.
- 7:10Speaker 4: Gun over here.
- 7:10Speaker 5: So when they walk in they say, no, I want
- 7:12Speaker 5: the glock forty three X, No, I want the glock nineteen.
- 7:14Speaker 5: They are very aware of where we are because we
- 7:17Speaker 5: already did this process.
- 7:18Speaker 2: I like the the glock is the shorthanded glock is good,
- 7:20Speaker 2: easy to to nobody can see it when you put
- 7:22Speaker 2: a shirt over it. But I noticed what a lot
- 7:23Speaker 2: of women is. It's hard to conceal that gun.
- 7:26Speaker 5: So but women have to all right, yeah, ready, so
- 7:28Speaker 5: women have to use what you got, right, So women
- 7:30Speaker 5: can use their their breasts to conceal everything like that.
- 7:33Speaker 5: We have different ways of doing it. We just can't
- 7:35Speaker 5: do it like guys because we don't wear what guys wear.
- 7:37Speaker 5: But there are different ways to conceal that. You would
- 7:39Speaker 5: have no idea that there was a gun.
- 7:41Speaker 1: On this woman?
- 7:42Speaker 3: Do you like conceal or open carrier better? Like? What
- 7:44Speaker 3: do you think makes.
- 7:45Speaker 4: You I don't believe it. I believe that your gun
- 7:48Speaker 4: should be your surprise.
- 7:48Speaker 5: No one should know that it's on you until it's
- 7:50Speaker 5: actually time to pull it out and get to work.
- 7:52Speaker 5: I don't believe that we should just be walking around
- 7:54Speaker 5: with guns.
- 7:54Speaker 2: Some of the law is that that let me get
- 7:56Speaker 2: your opinion on it. Right, So in certain malls right right,
- 8:00Speaker 2: they don't allow you to have a gun in the store,
- 8:03Speaker 2: right right? What do you think about, like, you know,
- 8:05Speaker 2: malls not allowing you to carry your weapon or certain
- 8:07Speaker 2: areas where you wouldn't need it, right, because yeah, you
- 8:10Speaker 2: might not eat any more. But then when I got
- 8:11Speaker 2: to walk to my car, and when it's dark, it's
- 8:14Speaker 2: hell outside and I got to get to my car
- 8:15Speaker 2: and try to put my key or open the door,
- 8:17Speaker 2: That's when somebody's gonna get me.
- 8:18Speaker 1: That's when somebody's gonna try.
- 8:19Speaker 3: To ride me.
- 8:19Speaker 4: I believe be able to have them in there. Especially.
- 8:22Speaker 5: I believe that we should, like forget the parking lot,
- 8:24Speaker 5: we need it in the mall. The mall be having
- 8:26Speaker 5: all kinds of crazy stuff's going on. Their shooting is
- 8:28Speaker 5: going on. You don't know who's in there, all telling
- 8:30Speaker 5: people with mental health issues. We don't know what we're
- 8:32Speaker 5: gonna run into. So I believe that we should have
- 8:34Speaker 5: it in the mall. I believe we should have it
- 8:35Speaker 5: in the movie theater. I believe we should have it
- 8:37Speaker 5: everywhere because and I went to the movies the other
- 8:39Speaker 5: day and I couldn't even feel comfortable because it said
- 8:42Speaker 5: like Noca sillaboard. So I left my gun in the car. Right,
- 8:44Speaker 5: I'm law abiding, and so I left my gun in
- 8:46Speaker 5: the car. And the whole entire time, I kept thinking,
- 8:48Speaker 5: if something happens right now, we're screwed, Like if somebody
- 8:51Speaker 5: came in here like the guy who did the Batman movie,
- 8:54Speaker 5: like we are screwed. I was looking for exits there
- 8:55Speaker 5: was only one way in, one way out, and I said,
- 8:57Speaker 5: I can't even enjoy the movie.
- 8:59Speaker 3: You know, I saw you say one in three women
- 9:01Speaker 3: in the US will experience domestic dating violence in their lifetime.
- 9:04Speaker 3: So would you encourage women to take guns on a
- 9:06Speaker 3: first date?
- 9:07Speaker 4: Yes? Absolutely.
- 9:08Speaker 5: You never know who you're meeting up with, especially these
- 9:11Speaker 5: dating apps and stuff like that. You never know who
- 9:13Speaker 5: this person really is. There's been a lot of like
- 9:16Speaker 5: serial rapists connected to dating apps and stuff like that.
- 9:19Speaker 5: So I would highly recommend that a woman, but not
- 9:22Speaker 5: just have a gun, know how to use the gun.
- 9:24Speaker 4: Right.
- 9:24Speaker 5: A lot of people have guns to flex with and
- 9:27Speaker 5: they're not knowledgeable about the actual gun. So I believe, yes,
- 9:30Speaker 5: you should have a gun on every single date. On
- 9:32Speaker 5: a fifty fourth date, there should still be a gun.
- 9:34Speaker 3: How would you encourage women to get are just people
- 9:37Speaker 3: in general to get over their fear of fire?
- 9:40Speaker 4: See, that's where I believe the instructor.
- 9:42Speaker 5: I feel like, whoever you team up with, that's where
- 9:45Speaker 5: that comes into play. Because if you team up with
- 9:46Speaker 5: somebody who's macho macho and think we about to join
- 9:49Speaker 5: the military tomorrow, then you get turned off by because
- 9:52Speaker 5: you're already intimidated. So I believe that's where you have
- 9:54Speaker 5: to find an instructor that you vibe with. Right, Like, So,
- 9:57Speaker 5: my whole business is a vibe Like we're a vibe
- 9:59Speaker 5: I have a vibe check. You can't come unless you
- 10:01Speaker 5: pass the vibe check. I've turned down people because they
- 10:03Speaker 5: vibes don't match my vibe check.
- 10:06Speaker 4: Ratchet yet educational, you know what I mean?
- 10:08Speaker 5: So like but hoursness, but so yeah, the vibe check.
- 10:13Speaker 5: I've had people come and they're here for the wrong reasons. Right,
- 10:16Speaker 5: They're here because they are malicious. They're here for not
- 10:20Speaker 5: They don't want to learn how to protect themselves. They
- 10:21Speaker 5: want to learn how to do damage to something else
- 10:23Speaker 5: because they got something else going on. I'm not here
- 10:25Speaker 5: for that. I'm here to teach women how to defend
- 10:27Speaker 5: themselves against threats that may come your way.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I think reps too. I think the more you do it,
- 10:31Speaker 1: the more you get used to it.
- 10:32Speaker 2: Yeah, the first first time anybody goes into range and
- 10:34Speaker 2: you shoot that one time and it's loud, and it also.
- 10:37Speaker 5: Depends on the gun that you shoot. For the first time,
- 10:39Speaker 5: I start everybody off for twenty two. It's as low
- 10:41Speaker 5: as we can go. I start everybody off there and
- 10:42Speaker 5: is a confidence building. They say, oh, this wasn't as
- 10:44Speaker 5: bad as I thought it was going to be. And
- 10:45Speaker 5: then next thing you know, we move up to a
- 10:47Speaker 5: three eighty right, so it goes twenty two three eighty
- 10:49Speaker 5: nine millimeters and we slowly work our way up that ladder.
- 10:52Speaker 5: And then when they're next, next thing you know, they
- 10:53Speaker 5: do have a forty or forty five because they we
- 10:56Speaker 5: took that process together.
- 10:57Speaker 1: I do believe when somebody you is that firearm, it
- 11:00Speaker 1: should be to kill.
- 11:02Speaker 4: Yes, I believe that. Don't pull it out if you
- 11:03Speaker 4: ain't serious.
- 11:04Speaker 2: About it, okay, because you know a lot of people,
- 11:07Speaker 2: and I can tell a lot of these people that
- 11:08Speaker 2: don't have firearms. They always say, well you can injure
- 11:10Speaker 2: somebody shoot them in a leg.
- 11:13Speaker 5: But see, the the thing about it is right when
- 11:15Speaker 5: you when you pull out your firearm to use it,
- 11:17Speaker 5: you are trying to truly stop somebody, right, So if
- 11:20Speaker 5: you shoot them at other places, the adrenaline can keep
- 11:22Speaker 5: them going through things like that. So I teach women
- 11:25Speaker 5: about organs. I teach them about like placement, because what
- 11:27Speaker 5: we're trying to do is drop the blood pressure. If
- 11:29Speaker 5: you drop the blood pressure, you drop the person. And
- 11:31Speaker 5: so that's what we're trying to do. So we're trying
- 11:33Speaker 5: to hit you in organs every single time. Where can
- 11:35Speaker 5: we hit? We only got one shot. We got to
- 11:37Speaker 5: make it work. The arm ain't it hold on?
- 11:39Speaker 3: That sounds it sinister? You said, drop the blood pressure? Yes, samn.
- 11:43Speaker 4: So you're going to triggers.
- 11:47Speaker 3: So you you teach all your people how to just
- 11:48Speaker 3: shoot to kill. Yes, okay, but I deal with.
- 11:51Speaker 2: A law enforcement shoot the kill when you when you
- 11:54Speaker 2: pull your firemont, it's to kill.
- 11:55Speaker 1: It's not too.
- 11:56Speaker 3: That's what they don't want to That's what you know
- 11:59Speaker 3: a lot of activists don't.
- 12:00Speaker 2: But what she said, when that adrenaline is running and
- 12:03Speaker 2: somebody's coming towards you, you want to make sure you
- 12:05Speaker 2: eliminate the threat.
- 12:06Speaker 4: The threat right, and they still keep coming.
- 12:09Speaker 5: So I mean that's what I trained women to do.
- 12:11Speaker 5: Like I said, I deal with a lot of domestic
- 12:13Speaker 5: violence victims like stuff. You you couldn't even believe it
- 12:15Speaker 5: if I told you right now. So I've had women
- 12:17Speaker 5: had to use their firearms to defend themselves. And that's
- 12:20Speaker 5: how we train. We train the way it's going to be.
- 12:22Speaker 5: We're not training for your arm. We're training to put
- 12:24Speaker 5: you down.
- 12:24Speaker 3: What change the concentration on victims of domestic violence solely
- 12:28Speaker 3: or just women in general.
- 12:29Speaker 4: It's women in general. It's women in general.
- 12:31Speaker 5: However, once I started, all the domestic violence victims started coming,
- 12:36Speaker 5: and they all like, they didn't feel comfortable taking the
- 12:37Speaker 5: men's classes. They didn't feel comfortable sitting in the classes
- 12:40Speaker 5: with all the men. So they started finding chicks with triggers.
- 12:42Speaker 5: And then they coming even the like at the local rangers.
- 12:44Speaker 5: They'll say, women never talk to us like they talk
- 12:47Speaker 5: to you, but it's a different vibe, you know what
- 12:48Speaker 5: I mean. So they come to me and they say, listen,
- 12:50Speaker 5: this man has stalked me and he's trying to kill me.
- 12:51Speaker 5: I've had that a million times, you know. This man
- 12:53Speaker 5: have had me in the hospital and I was on
- 12:54Speaker 5: a feeding tube.
- 12:55Speaker 4: Of three months. I've had that a million times.
- 12:56Speaker 5: Or he's getting out of prison and he said, like
- 12:58Speaker 5: he already called and said he's coming, so we got
- 13:00Speaker 5: to get ready.
- 13:02Speaker 2: The only thing I don't like about a lot of
- 13:04Speaker 2: states where they allow you to have a firearm at
- 13:06Speaker 2: a young age or twenty one, you know, get only
- 13:08Speaker 2: a permit or don't don't need a license?
- 13:10Speaker 1: Is I feel like everybody should have to take a class, right?
- 13:13Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 13:14Speaker 5: Now, okay, so I do agree with that. I believe
- 13:16Speaker 5: that you have to prove, you should prove that you're competence, but.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Not only that, you should know what the consequences are, right,
- 13:22Speaker 2: because a lot of people you get a fire on.
- 13:23Speaker 2: My I remember I got my first farm at twenty one, right,
- 13:25Speaker 2: I went to him University at twenty one.
- 13:26Speaker 1: You could get a gun in Virginia. So I got
- 13:27Speaker 1: my first handgun at twenty one.
- 13:30Speaker 2: I don't think I was mentally capable of owning that gun,
- 13:32Speaker 2: right because at that age anything you mean, you could
- 13:35Speaker 2: get into a fight in a club and I'm automatically
- 13:37Speaker 2: going to grab my fire on, But you don't necessarily
- 13:39Speaker 2: know the consequences of what that means. And I think,
- 13:42Speaker 2: I mean, if you have to take a class to
- 13:43Speaker 2: get a license, you know, you have to take a
- 13:45Speaker 2: class with so many different things, Why shouldn't you have
- 13:47Speaker 2: to take one to get a fire off?
- 13:48Speaker 4: See, I believe that you. I believe that you should
- 13:50Speaker 4: at least have to take a class.
- 13:51Speaker 5: I really do believe that I know a lot of
- 13:54Speaker 5: there's a lot of organizations that don't believe that, Like,
- 13:56Speaker 5: you should just.
- 13:57Speaker 4: Be able to go buy a gun. Now. Granted, in
- 13:58Speaker 4: South Carolina, we could just go buy a gun. You
- 13:59Speaker 4: don't need the class.
- 14:00Speaker 5: But my direct clients tell and most women they want
- 14:04Speaker 5: the class. It's the men that's the problem. Most women
- 14:06Speaker 5: want the class of. Okay, I had this gun for
- 14:08Speaker 5: however long, but I don't feel comfortable using it because
- 14:11Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 14:11Speaker 4: That's about it.
- 14:11Speaker 5: So it's just been sitting in the box. And that's
- 14:13Speaker 5: where we start from there. I might even have a program.
- 14:15Speaker 5: It's called Learn Your Gun. It's for women that already
- 14:17Speaker 5: have a gun, and they come in. It's a four
- 14:19Speaker 5: week program and every single week they come and we learned.
- 14:22Speaker 5: So week one we learn how to break it down,
- 14:23Speaker 5: take it apart. What are all the names called? What
- 14:25Speaker 5: are all the parts called? Then the second week is malfunctions.
- 14:27Speaker 5: If it jams, what are we going to do? Like,
- 14:29Speaker 5: we can't just excuse me, sir, you know before you
- 14:31Speaker 5: rate me, can you give me fifteen minutes? And then
- 14:33Speaker 5: the third one we go for accuracy. That's where I
- 14:35Speaker 5: talk about the placement and stuff like that. We go
- 14:37Speaker 5: to the shooting range and then the fourth one we
- 14:39Speaker 5: learn how to clean it and oil it and keep it,
- 14:41Speaker 5: keep it functioning properly.
- 14:42Speaker 3: Why do you think most men don't want to go
- 14:44Speaker 3: to classes.
- 14:45Speaker 4: Because men think they know everything that's facts.
- 14:48Speaker 5: Men think that guns are just like built into them.
- 14:52Speaker 5: Like a lot of men do that. A lot of
- 14:53Speaker 5: men at the rangers, they don't know. They ask from
- 14:55Speaker 5: their elbow, but they out here shooting and giving people advice,
- 14:57Speaker 5: and the target look a mess.
- 14:58Speaker 4: You should be embarrassed.
- 15:00Speaker 2: I was gonna ask what changed, because, you know, a
- 15:02Speaker 2: couple of years ago, all my life growing up, you know,
- 15:04Speaker 2: guns weren't allowed in certain states. But in the last
- 15:07Speaker 2: couple of years it's opening up more for different states
- 15:10Speaker 2: people are allowed to carry. So what change where people
- 15:12Speaker 2: are actually allowed? For instance, I lived in Jersey, I
- 15:15Speaker 2: think twenty years or something like that.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Twenty years.
- 15:17Speaker 2: For eighteen years I tried to get a firearm and
- 15:19Speaker 2: I couldn't get it. Two years ago the floodgates opened
- 15:22Speaker 2: up and I was able to get it one, two three.
- 15:23Speaker 2: So what changed with the world where people are now
- 15:26Speaker 2: allowing people to own firearms.
- 15:28Speaker 4: I think people got tired.
- 15:29Speaker 5: I think people got tired, you know, I think that
- 15:33Speaker 5: once once COVID hit and everything like that, like people
- 15:36Speaker 5: was worried. People saw all the evil in the world.
- 15:38Speaker 5: And I think people are just tired. They don't want
- 15:40Speaker 5: to play victims anymore. I have women that are in
- 15:43Speaker 5: their eighties that come and take my class, Hands to God,
- 15:45Speaker 5: and they come and take my class and they'll say,
- 15:46Speaker 5: you know, we never thought we would be here, but
- 15:48Speaker 5: this is where the world is right now. So the
- 15:49Speaker 5: world changed, you know what I mean, and where we're
- 15:52Speaker 5: going along with it. So I truly believe in guns.
- 15:54Speaker 5: I believe everybody should have a gun. There's a lot
- 15:56Speaker 5: of politicians out there and stuff that don't believe in guns.
- 15:58Speaker 5: But I'm telling you this right now. All of them
- 16:00Speaker 5: have armed security guards. But they're telling you don't need
- 16:02Speaker 5: a gun, and we don't need guns in these neighborhoods.
- 16:04Speaker 5: While they go to their armed houses with armed security
- 16:06Speaker 5: guards and their kids are at armed schools.
- 16:08Speaker 4: You get what I'm saying. So I believe that everyone.
- 16:11Speaker 5: Should have a gun until you prove that you're incompetent,
- 16:13Speaker 5: and now we got to take it away.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Now do you think everything should be on a national scale?
- 16:17Speaker 2: Meaning see, another big problem is the rules are in
- 16:20Speaker 2: New Jersey are not the same rules that are in Virginia,
- 16:22Speaker 2: which are not the same rules of South Carolina. For
- 16:24Speaker 2: somebody who carries a firearm, it's difficult to go through
- 16:27Speaker 2: every rule and regulation for each state, and a lot
- 16:30Speaker 2: of people get caught up for that be could they
- 16:31Speaker 2: have a legal firearm, but you're in the wrong state.
- 16:34Speaker 4: Yeah, you're in the wrong state.
- 16:35Speaker 5: So that's where the and I think that's where like
- 16:37Speaker 5: the permits and stuff come in. That's where knowing reciprocity.
- 16:40Speaker 5: So reciprocity is an agreement between states saying like, if
- 16:42Speaker 5: you let our residents come over here with guns, we'll
- 16:44Speaker 5: let your residents come over here with guns. I think
- 16:46Speaker 5: that's part of the education because I always tell people
- 16:48Speaker 5: in my classes, you have to follow the rules of
- 16:50Speaker 5: the state that you're in, not the state that you're from.
- 16:52Speaker 5: And that's where people don't research. People don't research when
- 16:54Speaker 5: you're driving through these places, how is this gun supposed
- 16:57Speaker 5: to be?
- 16:57Speaker 4: Where is it supposed to be, etc. Etc. And that's
- 17:00Speaker 4: where they get jammed up.
- 17:01Speaker 3: Do you notice any men in your life change the
- 17:03Speaker 3: way they approach you because they know you got a gun.
- 17:06Speaker 4: I think they always thought I was crazy. I'm just
- 17:09Speaker 4: gonna be honest.
- 17:11Speaker 5: I think they always thought I was crazy, But no,
- 17:13Speaker 5: I think that. You know what, though, when I first
- 17:16Speaker 5: started Chicks with Triggers, I think that a lot of men,
- 17:18Speaker 5: especially in South Carolina, they thought it.
- 17:21Speaker 4: Was a joke.
- 17:22Speaker 5: They thought like because they think down on women. They
- 17:24Speaker 5: think women like, what can a girl possibly know about
- 17:27Speaker 5: a gun? And I think now that they've seen what
- 17:31Speaker 5: we can do is changing because women are not playing anymore,
- 17:34Speaker 5: women are not being the victims anymore, like we are
- 17:36Speaker 5: busting ass out here.
- 17:37Speaker 4: And I think now it's starting to change now.
- 17:39Speaker 3: I've I've seen your pictures of your classes on Instagram.
- 17:41Speaker 3: It's hundreds of people there. What was the first spark
- 17:44Speaker 3: that made you say, this is what I want to do.
- 17:47Speaker 3: I want to turn what I know into you know,
- 17:50Speaker 3: my actual teaching experience.
- 17:52Speaker 5: So it was, for one, it started during COVID and
- 17:55Speaker 5: everything was going crazy and there was kidnapping women from
- 17:58Speaker 5: Greenville and Charlotte. They was kidnapping women and they were
- 18:00Speaker 5: throwing them in white vans and stuff like that. And
- 18:02Speaker 5: I said, you know what, I'm gonna teach women how
- 18:04Speaker 5: to defend themselves, like I wonder if.
- 18:05Speaker 4: They know how to use the gun.
- 18:06Speaker 5: And every single girl that I asked, every single friend
- 18:07Speaker 5: that I had, they said, my boyfriend knows how to
- 18:09Speaker 5: use it, my husband knows how to use it.
- 18:11Speaker 4: But they didn't know how to use it. And I said, well,
- 18:12Speaker 4: how does that help you if they're not here?
- 18:14Speaker 2: Right?
- 18:14Speaker 5: And then so I thought about it. I played around
- 18:16Speaker 5: with it, and then I went to the range. I
- 18:18Speaker 5: went to the shooting range because the range was deemed
- 18:20Speaker 5: what was it essential?
- 18:22Speaker 1: Okay?
- 18:22Speaker 4: The range was essential during COVID in South Carolina.
- 18:24Speaker 5: And I went to the range and I I'm short, right,
- 18:29Speaker 5: so I'm little, and the thing was up too high
- 18:31Speaker 5: for me. Put the target up and it was these
- 18:33Speaker 5: two white men next to me, and they said, I said,
- 18:35Speaker 5: can y'all put the target up? Because they raised it
- 18:37Speaker 5: and I'm too short And they said okay, and they
- 18:38Speaker 5: said when they once they did, they said, be careful,
- 18:40Speaker 5: don't hurt yourself.
- 18:41Speaker 4: And I was like, what the fuck? Like, what do
- 18:42Speaker 4: you mean? That rubbed me the wrong way?
- 18:45Speaker 5: And then after I started shooting, they was quiet, they
- 18:48Speaker 5: was looking and they was quiet, and they was quite
- 18:50Speaker 5: in their target looked a mess. And on my way
- 18:51Speaker 5: out I said, now, y'all be careful and don't hurt
- 18:53Speaker 5: your fucking stuff. When I got in the car, I
- 18:55Speaker 5: called him. I called my father and I said, I'm
- 18:56Speaker 5: a teach woman how to use gun. Because I did
- 18:58Speaker 5: that rubbed me the wrong way.
- 18:59Speaker 3: What do you mean, don't would so you did all
- 19:01Speaker 3: head shots after that? Or chess with which I mean.
- 19:03Speaker 4: You know, I can't reveal my my taxtics, you know
- 19:05Speaker 4: what I mean. We don't air. I can't reveal my
- 19:07Speaker 4: taxic you know what I mean. It might come back.
- 19:11Speaker 3: So how can women in your area get their firearm lessons?
- 19:14Speaker 5: So I do for the state of South Carolina, North Carolina,
- 19:17Speaker 5: and Georgia.
- 19:18Speaker 4: So I do all over.
- 19:19Speaker 5: They can contact me. And if you're not in South
- 19:21Speaker 5: Carolina and you want to come to South Carolina, I'm
- 19:25Speaker 5: always open to do groups. I'm always open to travel.
- 19:28Speaker 5: I'm all over the place. So if they want to
- 19:29Speaker 5: come down, we have we have beautiful shooting ranges. It's
- 19:32Speaker 5: very it's very welcoming as far as like New York
- 19:35Speaker 5: versus South Carolina, like you could damn there get a
- 19:37Speaker 5: gun at the welcome center to South Carolina. Right, So
- 19:41Speaker 5: I always encourage women to just just reach out. There
- 19:44Speaker 5: is no sign up on my on my website because
- 19:46Speaker 5: everyone has to pass that VIBE check. So when you
- 19:48Speaker 5: fill out an inquiry form, you have to then talk
- 19:51Speaker 5: to me and I gotta know what's going on in
- 19:52Speaker 5: your life and I gotta know. I gotta feel you
- 19:54Speaker 5: out first, and then if I if you pass that,
- 19:56Speaker 5: then we move on.
- 19:56Speaker 4: To the next level, which is actually booking the class.
- 19:58Speaker 3: Do you help women in the project? Is getting licensed
- 20:00Speaker 3: and purchasing.
- 20:02Speaker 5: Yeah, so I do license them. So I license them
- 20:05Speaker 5: through the State of South Carolina.
- 20:06Speaker 4: So I get there.
- 20:06Speaker 3: You do the license.
- 20:07Speaker 5: I mean, we'll say to South Carolina, but I'm the
- 20:09Speaker 5: one that signs off on it to let the State
- 20:10Speaker 5: of South Carolina know, Hey, she does, she can have
- 20:12Speaker 5: a license.
- 20:13Speaker 4: Does that make sense?
- 20:14Speaker 5: And so I sign them up for the concealed weapons
- 20:17Speaker 5: permits and then after that we do we go through
- 20:19Speaker 5: the purpose of purchasing the gun, finding the right gun
- 20:22Speaker 5: for them.
- 20:22Speaker 4: Going if I have to go with you to buy it.
- 20:24Speaker 5: I have done that before too, because the don't feel
- 20:25Speaker 5: comfortable walking into the like Palmetto State Armory.
- 20:28Speaker 4: They don't feel comfortable. So if I have to go
- 20:29Speaker 4: driving my car and go with you. Then we're walking in.
- 20:31Speaker 1: Now you know I'm not licensed South Carolina, which is crazy.
- 20:34Speaker 4: South Carolina don't have reciprocity.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Right yeah, South Carolina, Illinois, California.
- 20:40Speaker 2: In Oregon, in the states that I can't carry, Yeah,
- 20:42Speaker 2: we don't have which is crazy South Carolina.
- 20:44Speaker 1: I will tell you I can't carry. So when I
- 20:45Speaker 1: travel South Carolina can't carol for.
- 20:46Speaker 4: But you can drive through it and go to Florida.
- 20:49Speaker 2: Now I'm playing with y'all, and that legal, I promise
- 20:52Speaker 2: you see. South Carolina is a red, red red iron. Nope,
- 20:57Speaker 2: I'm not putting on a plane. I am messing with y'all.
- 20:59Speaker 4: You can drive the room. But yeah, so I am.
- 21:02Speaker 4: But a lot of men come to me too, which
- 21:04Speaker 4: is crazy. A lot of.
- 21:05Speaker 5: Men come, Like I just had a group of like
- 21:08Speaker 5: eight guys last weekend and they all came. But again,
- 21:10Speaker 5: I think it's because it's the vibe and a lot
- 21:13Speaker 5: of men of color don't want to go to the
- 21:16Speaker 5: white instructors, so they come. Even if it's girls they're
- 21:18Speaker 5: coming over here.
- 21:19Speaker 3: Is it possible for you to face liability? Like if
- 21:21Speaker 3: a woman you train, you know, uses her gun and
- 21:23Speaker 3: like misuses her firearm. Will that come back on you?
- 21:27Speaker 5: We signed waivers, okay, but it is I guess I
- 21:33Speaker 5: don't see how it's possible because we have a standard
- 21:35Speaker 5: list of what we are allowed to teach and what
- 21:38Speaker 5: I taught you, So you signed off on that before
- 21:40Speaker 5: and that goes to the state, and I keep a copy.
- 21:42Speaker 5: So there's no there's no question about what this person
- 21:44Speaker 5: knows because I taught them this in the class, they
- 21:46Speaker 5: took it on the test. You got to do all
- 21:47Speaker 5: this stuff. So what you do after you leave is
- 21:49Speaker 5: your business. I mean, I taught you to I can.
- 21:51Speaker 5: I can only do what I can do.
- 21:52Speaker 3: What success stories have you had, like meaning you know
- 21:55Speaker 3: sadly a woman was assaulted and they were able to
- 21:57Speaker 3: defend themselves.
- 21:58Speaker 5: I had a woman that a man, a man that
- 22:02Speaker 5: she knew, broke into her home and she.
- 22:05Speaker 4: Had to use her firearm and she killed him. Wow.
- 22:07Speaker 5: And I asked I remember asking her afterwards. I said,
- 22:10Speaker 5: I said, how do you feel? And the first thing
- 22:12Speaker 5: she said to me was she had never said in
- 22:13Speaker 5: two years to me, was I finally feel free, Like
- 22:16Speaker 5: I'm not scared anymore, I'm not looking over my shoulder anymore.
- 22:19Speaker 5: I feel free and she said, I never thought I
- 22:21Speaker 5: would feel like that because for the past eight years,
- 22:23Speaker 5: this is how I felt, and so he would stalk
- 22:26Speaker 5: her everything. Because it's not even if they stalk you right,
- 22:28Speaker 5: it's hard to get a restrained in order and a straightener.
- 22:31Speaker 5: There is just a piece of paper. The cops are
- 22:32Speaker 5: not here to protect you, so we have to do
- 22:34Speaker 5: it ourselves. I feel like, especially with domestic violence, it's
- 22:37Speaker 5: only gonna end one of two ways. Right Domestic violence
- 22:39Speaker 5: is out of control right now, and it's only gonna
- 22:40Speaker 5: end one of two ways.
- 22:41Speaker 4: Either men are going to step up and say, you
- 22:43Speaker 4: know what, we're not gonna do this anymore.
- 22:44Speaker 5: We're not gonna beat women anymore, we're not gonna treat
- 22:46Speaker 5: them like this anymore, which that hasn't happened yet. Or
- 22:48Speaker 5: women are going to step up and they're gonna say,
- 22:51Speaker 5: you know what, we're gonna be our own first responders,
- 22:52Speaker 5: and if anybody poses an imminent threat to me or
- 22:55Speaker 5: my family, we're gonna put them down.
- 22:56Speaker 4: And that's what I teach them how to do.
- 22:57Speaker 3: How else do you think women can protect themselves while
- 23:00Speaker 3: they're waiting on the process to go through the access
- 23:03Speaker 3: to fire on knives.
- 23:05Speaker 4: We teach knives, we teach self defence. There's so many
- 23:09Speaker 4: different ways.
- 23:09Speaker 5: You don't It doesn't always have to be a gun
- 23:11Speaker 5: because a lot of places you can't even have a gun.
- 23:13Speaker 5: So what are we gonna use? So we teach them
- 23:14Speaker 5: stick fight and we teach them where to hit. We
- 23:16Speaker 5: teach them knives, how to stab, stuff like that, things
- 23:18Speaker 5: that you can use around your house. We teach them
- 23:20Speaker 5: to be prepared from every single angle.
- 23:23Speaker 3: Can we talk about the background, because I know people
- 23:24Speaker 3: hear that and they'd be like, what you know about
- 23:26Speaker 3: all of that?
- 23:27Speaker 1: About a lot?
- 23:27Speaker 3: Can you let them know your father's father.
- 23:30Speaker 5: Okay, so my father when you're tired, NYPD And he's
- 23:34Speaker 5: also brand master of Martin Bis, which is a martial
- 23:36Speaker 5: arts system. So we kick ass around here from every
- 23:39Speaker 5: single angle, you know what I mean, every angle You're
- 23:42Speaker 5: gonna get your ass well, every single every single way
- 23:45Speaker 5: we can.
- 23:45Speaker 3: Professor Robert Evans, you've heard me talk about it, you know,
- 23:48Speaker 3: written a bottom in my books, Great mentor of mind.
- 23:51Speaker 3: Yes he is that, he is him. Yes, So don't
- 23:54Speaker 3: think Robin don't know what you're doing. I know, we
- 23:56Speaker 3: don't know what you're talking.
- 23:56Speaker 2: We appreciate you for joining us to say thank you
- 23:58Speaker 2: so much for having me love it.
- 24:00Speaker 3: The information everything is chickswick.
- 24:02Speaker 5: Trigger So Instagram is Shakeswa Triggers. My website is shackswad
- 24:05Speaker 5: triggers dot com. Facebook is shackswaw Triggers, but Facebook blocks
- 24:08Speaker 5: me a lot for all the guns. So if you
- 24:09Speaker 5: want to have a good time, Instagram lets me live
- 24:11Speaker 5: my best life.
- 24:12Speaker 1: All right, Well, it's Robin Evans. It's the Breakfast Club.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Good morning. Wake that ass up in the morning for
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