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23 May 25 “We trust our eyes, but most of us see only what we wish to see, or what we sincerely believe we should be seeing, not what is actually there, right in front of us!” Marriott Yesterday’s precipitous, depraved double-homicide just outside the Jewish Museum in Washington DC illustrates, once again, the way […]

17 May 25 “One day everything will be well. That is our hope. Everything’s fine today.  That is our illusion” Voltaire “Security Cameras,” the highly-visible feature of ever-delusional “Security Theater” Early Friday morning, at least seven dangerous, violent felons escaped from the New Orleans Parish Jail.   They broke through a wall and escaped through […]

13 May 25 “Cynics are right, nine times out of ten.” Mencken The last 150 years of military rifle development. How we got here! Progressive-burning, high-energy smokeless propellant was invented by a French chemist, Paul Eugene Vieille, in 1884.  Vieille’s invention instantly rendered all black-powder firearms obsolete, although it would take at least the next […]

9 May 25 “‘This is very unusual” will continue to be a sorry epitaph etched on gravestones of the self-deceptive and blithely unprepared! Training axiom Yet another fatal bear attack, this one in FL on Monday evening. The offending black bear appears to have violently entered the victim’s (age 89 w/mobility limitations) home. Victim was […]

5 May 25 “EDP,” (for “Emotionally Disturbed Person”) A week ago in Tucson, AZ, an innocent thirteen-year-old girl, who had just departed her middle-school in order to board a city bus, was approached by an “EDP.” He was mumbling incoherently. This EDP then precipitously attacked the girl, grabbing her and striking her several times.  She was […]

30 Apr 25 “Don’t be buffaloed by ‘experts’ and ‘elites.’ ‘Experts’ possess more data than judgment. ‘Elites’ become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death the moment they are nicked in the real world.” Colin Powell The Myth of the “Miss!” Any time we launch a bullet, under any circumstance, the launch […]

28 Apr 25 “Summer of Violence?” Another deliberate high-speed vehicle-ramming of innocent pedestrians happened early last Saturday evening, this time in Vancouver, Canada. Eleven pedestrians DOA, or dead at the scene.  Three times that number injured, many critically.  Most casualties were members of the local Filipino Community, assembled for an ethnic “street celebration.” Perpetrator, an […]

26 Apr 25 NRA Show, Atlanta, GA, second day Service pistols I should have mentioned yesterday: Stoeger’s Glock-like STR9 is surely serviceable.  Mid-price range The CC9 is H&K’s competitor for the small/concealable SIG365 market. $700.00, and now made in America H&K’s VP9 is a wonderful service pistol, but pricey at $1k Canik’s METE MC9/LS, at […]

25 Apr 25 2025 NRA Show, Atlanta, GA I arrived here in Atlanta, GA yesterday in order to attend the 2025 NRA Show.  My first time in downtown Atlanta! I have to say that Atlanta is an extremely friendly town.  Staff, vendors, and attendees all go out of their way to be welcoming and helpful.  […]

23 Apr 25 “You do not enter a race to lose” Leigh Bardugo On 7 Oct 23, Israeli citizens (at least ones who are still alive and paying attention) learned an important lesson about defensive firearms- guns that are continuously in the hands of individual private citizens. We need to pay attention too, at least […]

19 Apr 25 “Less than five minutes…” At yesterday’s school-shooting in Tallahassee, FL, two innocent victims died, and at least six more were injured. To their credit, local police were on the scene immediately.  They aggressively moved-in, locating, confronting, and shooting (non-fatally) the single perpetrator, effectively ending the danger and the event.  In fact, this […]

19 Apr 25 Israeli domestic politics are as vehemently fractured as are ours! This from a friend in Israel, just received: “Terrorists in Yemen fired a missile (supplied by Iran) at Jerusalem at 06:20 this morning. To no one’s surprise, the missile was intercepted and destroyed by IDF before it ever entered Israel, and assorted […]

17 Apr 25 “All your ‘barriers’ are worthless” A frustrated Russian Naval Officer during Japan’s surprise attack on Russia’s Pacific Fleet at Port Arthur on 9 Feb 1904, the event kicking-off the Russo-Japanese War Early last Sunday morning, a single suspect (without any special equipment) easily jumped a “security fence” surrounding the home of PA’s […]

13 Apr 25 What represents a perceived “threat?” “A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.” Jose Bergamin On Tuesday of last week, LAPD officers were involved in a high-speed vehicular chase of at least two suspects who had been involved in a […]

9 Apr 25 “At the moment of victory, tighten your helmet.” Tokugawa Ieyasu “Zanshin” is a Japanese word that loosely translates, “remaining mind” Modern Operators use it to describe “maintenance of caution/guard,” particularly at the threshold when the fight appears to have reached its conclusion. Immediately approaching a defeated/injured VCA, even for the purpose of […]

8 Apr 25 HOWs “HOW” stands for “House of Worship,” and the term applies to all churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. Like many of my colleagues, I’ve been training HOW security officers and teams in recent years, as violent crime within HOWs is on the increase, particularly when worshipers are congregated in and/or near the physical […]

3 Apr 25 “Without warning, the axe can fall on any neck, absent regard for ‘justice’” James Agee Here it comes! In February of this year, corrections officers at Collins Correctional Facility in NY went on strike. They were quickly joined by corrections officers statewide (at what few state prisons that, like Collins, have survived […]

1 Apr 25 “Light-bulbs did not result from intense efforts to perfect the candle” Anon Bear-attacks, and other homicides! The term “Gaslighting” has been coined to describe ongoing pathological abuse of a person (or an entire population), by leftists and leftist governments, perniciously intended to deceive victim(s) into suspending reality and questioning the validity of […]

31 Mar 25 Tac-Con, 2025 Our 2025 Tactical Conference (just ended), under the auspices of Tom and Lynn Givens, was held again this year in Dallas, TX.  Vicki and I were in attendance, and I presented a lecture Class this time. The Dallas Pistol Club is spacious,  with six separate live-fire ranges and three classrooms, […]

26 Mar 25 2025 ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) Conference, St Louis, MO Our 2025 ILEETA Conference is in-session this week at the wonderful Union Station Hotel and Conference Center. Vicki presented her Class twice.  I just mingled this time, as we had to depart today. As always, there is an extensive […]