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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 […]

21 Mar 25 Dishonorable trash, masquerading as our Countrymen During my lifetime, classic virtues such as rugged individualism, honesty, bravery, skill-at-arms, mental toughness, productivity, and what Finns call “Sisu” (audacity, resilience) were honorable traits, for both men and women. As amazing Americans, we were expected to strive after them, no matter our starting-point, audaciously carrying-on […]

18 Mar 25 “‘Faith’ doesn’t make good science. Curiosity does!” Professor Jacob Barnhardt (played by Sam Jaffe) to “Klaatu,” (played by Michael Rennie) in the 1951 science-fiction classic, “The Day the Earth Stood Still” We are supposed to believe AI is an “artificial person” Rubbish! AI has become a mere blindly-obedient “engine of narrative enforcement” […]

17 Mar 25 On AI, from a friend and author: “I am writing a book on the issue of concealed carry. Thinking it would be helpful with referencing, formatting etc, I decided to use AI. To my surprise and dismay, AI deleted material aspects of my book, because they ‘violated its terms and conditions.’ When […]

14 Mar 25 Flashlights! I encourage students to carry at least one tactical flashlight all the time.  Tactical flashlights are literally “non-deadly weapons.”  Most are small enough to be carried routinely And, unlike guns, knives, batons, and OC spray, flashlights are completely unregulated.  You can take yours anywhere, including schools, government offices, commercial flights.  There […]

13 Mar 25 “Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master” Christian Lous Lange AI “AI” (call it “intelligence” if you wish) is based on huge sets of digitized data. Western Civilization has been doing almost everything digitally for more than two decades.  More recently, all data is agglomerated into “data centers,”. I have […]

5 Mar 25   “Celebrating diversity,” at the expense of simple logic in serving and protecting citizens: Boston’s woke mayor, instead of commend the bravery of her magnificent police officer who had the decisiveness and courage to gun-down a murderous criminal who was threatening innocent customers at fast-food restaurant, and for having the competence and […]