“Cogito, ergo armatum sum”
31 Aug 26 Verity and nonsense! “Personal safety advice,” emanating from mouths of politicians and media personalities (all of whom enjoy constant attention from ever-present, heavily-armed bodyguards), should always be looked upon with a jaundiced eye. Time and again, the media cites “security experts” and their recommendations on “how you can stay safe.” I seldom […]
Too much? Too little?
27 Aug 26 “Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.” Criss Jami UDs Over the past fifty years, we’ve gone from double-action revolvers with long, 12-14lb triggers, to striker-fired auto-loading pistols with short, (sometimes as light as) 5lb triggers! With a carry-pistol, that is intended as a piece of emergency-safety, personal-defense equipment, “perfect solutions” are […]
Options!
26 Aug 26 Concealed Carry Options! Earlier this month, a woman attending one of our DTI Defensive Handgun Classes in OH asked me if she could work out of her concealed-carry handbag. She later told me that she fully expected me to say “No,” and that I would insist that she use a strong-side belt […]
Chaos!
20 Aug 26 “First come the dreamers, then the bankers, then the sharks, then the salesmen, then the swindlers, then the desperate, and then the thieves” Tommy Norris (played by Billy Bob Thornton) in the Paramount TV Series, “Landman” Chaos! Last Tuesday evening, in the LA suburb of Bellflower, a “flashmob,” in combination with a […]
Dithering!
18 Aug 26 “Dithering” is not your friend! For those of us who go armed, “drama” is something we’re well-advised to avoid. And, drama begins with “dithering.” Dithering will squander valuable seconds as you flounder in a sea of indecisiveness. Dithering will keep you in one place when you need to be moving! Yet, when […]
Western Europe
12 Aug 26 This brief message, received today from a friend in Europe (Belgium) “The big issue throughout Western Europe is uncontrolled, mostly illegal, mostly non-assimilating, immigration from the Mideast and Africa. Infrastructure is overloaded. Violent crime is out of control. Europeans are fed-up, as leftist politicians self-righteously cater to illegal immigrant criminals, while ignoring […]
Pixie Dust!
10 Aug 26 “911 operators,” who are nothing more than voice-generating AI? Lord, deliver us! Gun-sales are about to spike, once more, in New Orleans as the fact that AI will now be running a major, leftist/Democrat-run city’s public-safety 911 system. Today’s headline: “New Orleans becomes the first major US city to use AI for […]
Slaves again!
5 Aug 26 “Do you hear the people sing?Singing a song of angry menIt is the voices of a peopleWho will not be slaves again!” Theme from the 1980 musical, “Les Misérables,” adopted from the 1862 Victor Hugo novel of the same title Neo-Marxist governors diligently protect illegal alien criminals with “acts” and “laws” which […]
Worse than the Tsar!
4 Aug 26 “When you take the most ardent (Communist) revolutionary, vest him in absolute power, within a single year he will be worse than the Tsar himself!” Mikhail Bakunin How much civility we’ve lost since 2020 when the George Floyd/Defund-the-Police Movement was oh-so enthusiastically, unconditionally embraced by Democrats, and how much thinner is the […]
Gun industry legends Dave Spaulding, Massad Ayoob, Mike Boyle, and John Farnam join Fernando Coelho to dive deep into the history of the gun industry, shedding light on how firearms and firearms training have transformed over the decades. They discuss the dramatic shift from traditional print reviews to the digital age of internet forums, social media influencers, and YouTube personalities of the industry.
