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12 Nov 24 “What is purportedly ‘allowed’” vs “What is ‘reasonably necessary’” My friend and colleague, Andrew Branca, in his instruction on the subject of lethal force used in legitimate self defense, makes liberal use of the term, “reasonableness” We should all listen to him carefully! Many students, and practicing instructors, in our Art spend […]

6 Nov 24 Our Republic is saved! DJT will be our president, once more, while Republicans made other significant gains. Our rights are safe, at least for the next four years! No “going the way of Venezuela” for now. KDH dreamed of books being written about her.  Now, she’ll be confined to a footnote, or […]

4 Nov 24 “It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,lest it fall into error, and go astray; And so, when you’re requested to ‘pay-up, or be molested,’You’ll find it better policy to say: We never pay Dane-geld (extortion), no matter how trifling the cost,Because, the end of that game is […]

30 Oct 24 Hog Hunting in FL Yesterday, I was able to go hog-hunting, once more with my good friend, Ian Hall, owner of the wonderful eighteen-hundred-acre Florida Hunting, Fishing, and Outdoor Adventures Hunting Preserve at the Oak Island Ranch in Okeechobee, FL Web Page is floridahuntingadventures.com Ian and I ventured-forth yesterday afternoon on an […]

29 Oct 24 “Disappointment results from the removal of illusion” Chogyam Trungpa Help is not on the way! A “gang of youths” exited their vehicles and executed a coordinated, vicious attack on an innocent women in Oakland, CA last Friday evening. Victim was savagely beaten. Follow the silence: Local media carefully avoids mentioning ethnicity of […]

22 Oct 24 “Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth-century sense of the word” Barbara Amiel Is this our future? The ultimate goal of domestic leftists/socialists/Communists/Democrats in dissolving our national borders is not just to manufacture a source of illegal votes.  It is the same reason they de-fund local police, empty prisons, apologize for violent criminals, […]

17 Oct 24 “We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.” Denis Diderot Our once-respectable FBI is reporting that, in 2022, there was a 1.7% decline in violent crime. Yet, many police departments are no longer even reporting crime data to the […]

14 Oct 24 “Safe” Inside a Stationary Vehicle? Two weeks ago, on I90 near Cleveland, OH, the entire freeway was blocked, taken-over, and completely shut down for more than a hour by a mob of street thugs who then accosted stalled motorists.  No escape was allowed! Frantic 911 calls from stranded motorists were answered with […]

10 Oct 24 “40% of homicides go unsolved. It’s not a good record. 95% of ‘convictions’ come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It’s as if we have the worst of both worlds: We don’t convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much!” Bill Maher Knife Attacks! >Last Saturday, a uniformed […]

6 Oct 24   Vicki’s new, and long-awaited, book:   “FlexCCarry Solutions, A Positive Guide to Off-Body Carry”   Is now available from Amazon!   https://www.flexccarrysolutions.com/   This is a controversial subject, but Vicki’s treatment is genuinely informative and very useful!   When you order and read your copy, write a review and send it […]

5 Oct 24 These comments from a seasoned neurologist, and good friend: “A high-velocity projectile passing through the heart will cause an enormous (but brief) wave of over-pressure, instantly increasing blood-pressure in the brain and spinal cord to well above tissue-damaging levels. Neither the brain, nor the spinal cord, can tolerate such high pressure! The […]

4 Oct 24 “But always there is present this feeling of unexplained relations of events” Charles Fort Handgun Hunting! For the first time in my life, I went big-game handgun hunting yesterday! Vicki and I were at Shawnee Ridge in OH. I used my S&W 629 (six-inch barrel, 44 Magnum, iron sights) with Cor-Bon (original […]

29 Sept 24 “In order to be correctly called ‘sovereign,’ a nation has to be able to control its own borders.” Tom Tancredo Sanguinary consequences of uncontrolled immigration are seen all around the world! An illegal migrant from Morocco (previously convicted of forcible rape in France, but never incarcerated), was just re-arrested in Switzerland, where […]

25 Sept 24 “I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder” Werner Herzog “Taking Over” In CA, entire neighborhood “takeovers” are now called “Sideshows” In Philadelphia, PA they’re called “Meetups” Other places, the term is “Flashmob” These dangerous and destructive organized criminal events involve large groups of […]

19 Sept 24 Ammunition This, from friends in the ammunition-manufacturing business: “Right now, most components are reasonably available, but that will begin to change soon! Two weeks ago, the CCP precipitously announced that it was discontinuing the export to the USA of nitrocellulose and antimony.  These two products are indispensable in the production of propellent […]

18 Sept 24 “Never do your enemy a ‘minor injury’” Niccolo Machiavelli With yesterday’s “Operation Pager” (what I call it), Israel is actively “terrifying the terrorists!” Israel’s intelligence capability and “asymmetrical cyber-warfare,” executed with amazing precision and potency, is well beyond the capability of most other nations, including ours! The fact that Israel informed nobody […]

17 Sept 24 Life in NYC! With major crime in NYC up more than thirty percent since 2020, and while the mayor and much of the city’s political hierarchy are under federal investigation for corruption (the chief of police just resigned), it was recently announced that the average time for police response to major-crime 911 […]

11 Sept 24 Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it! Salvador Dali Gloves negatively affect our dexterity with guns. No doubt! However, in “modern times,” gloves are mandatory in many circumstances In the 1970s, latex gloves were rarely included in an LEO’s training curriculum. It was accepted that we would get blood on […]

3 Sept 24 Ethnic, Illegal-Alien Gangs: In response to a ridiculous op-ed piece in the Denver Post, which argues that the Venezuelan gang who is currently terrorizing Aurora, CO is “not a problem,” since it would be “ethnic profiling” to identify them as being a problem, an attorney friend wrote this in response: “It is […]

28 Aug 24 “Catch-and-Release,” at the expense of public safety (about which no one seems to care): On Sunday evening, a woman waiting for her flight at EWR (Newark, NJ Airport) was precipitously attacked and stabbed in her face. I’ve stood at that exact spot at EWR, many times! She was subsequently treated at a […]