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My name is Mickey Schuch.
I’m president of Carry Trainer.
I’m been very blessed in my life to train with some of the best people in the industry.
For a number of years I ran a non-for-profit that fights for gun rights in our state here
in Illinois.
Our organization played a role in the passage of concealed carry here in Illinois.
A small role, but something we are proud of.
A big question people ask me is, why do you do this?
Are you a gun nut?
Are you a fanatic about fighting?
And the answer is actually not at all.
I enjoy guns.
I enjoy training.
But… sadly as a young man a very close family friend was brutally murdered in her home.
A gentleman invaded her home, brutally raped and murdered her.
It was one of my sister’s best friends.
It was a… defining moment in a young person’s life when you realize the world isn’t all
peaches and cream… and rainbows.
Because of some of those instances as a child I personally developed a strong passion for
self-preservation I suppose.
I’m not a paranoid person by any means, but we understand that evil exists.
I’m a father.
I’m a husband.
I’ve got a large family.
My parents had eleven children.
And so one of the things my folks instilled in us was taking care of each other.
As I got older and began training, I took each other to mean friends, and other human
beings.
One of the things I’ve tried to do with Carry Trainer is bridge the gap from super
soldier, super cop to average citizen.
And be able to take the tactics and strategies that exist and put them in laymen’s terms.
I’ve made it a huge part of my life to help disseminate that information to people that
want to know it.
While we do have students that are active military and law enforcement officers, the
reason that Carry Trainer exists is for average Moms and Dads.
This is for the Mom on the way to the car in the mall parking lot with a guy stalking
her.
This is for Dad that wakes up in the middle of the night to the front door getting kicked
open.
I’m not taking anything away from any military or law enforcement people.
There are some amazing instructors out there.
What I’ve seen is kind of a disconnect from the formal military/law enforcement training
to average Mom and Dad.
That’s how Carry Trainer has developed and grown, in that genre, in that segment.
Personally I take my own education very seriously.
I spend a ton of time and personal resources to continue to educate myself.
On a yearly basis I sometimes take up to 300 hours of formal training to continue to learn
and grow.
The biggest thing for me in my life is that we are able to provide information…
to folks that can actually save their lives and make them better.
That makes me sleep better at night.
It brings me some fulfillment in my life, and hopefully folks watching recognize that.
The essence of what Carry Trainer teaches, is at the end of the day, “What can you
do to affect your safety, your family’s safety, with what’s on you at the time an
incident takes place.
That’s really all that matters and that’s what we instill in our students.