I believe that you should demand a higher level of intellectual engagement than that, and your instructor should be willing and able to answer two questions which can show you if he or she is up to the task of teaching you the how, why, and when of defensive shooting.
...That’s a meaningless answer; if he or she is really committed to teaching the best and latest information, there will be something they don’t teach any longer — something they’ve changed their mind about.
...I’ve changed my mind about quite a few things over the last couple of years: appendix carry (it’s not for me, but I can see the advantages for some people); the .380ACP (I used to deride it as useless, but the objective evidence says it’s better than most of us will admit); the value of competition (I used to be very pro-competition, then went through a phase where I was very anti-competition, but now I’ve evolved to see that the arguments are really pointless given all the other things that we need to deal with in the self defense context.)
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