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THOUGHT-PROVOKING COMMENTARY FROM A RESPECTED LAWMAN

I first met Dave Smith many years ago. He was on the Board I reported to at the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers where I served as chair of the Firearms/Deadly Force Training Committee. His career in law enforcement (Arizona Department of Public Safety) was stellar, and his career since in police training, even […]

WHO REMEMBERS…?

I ran across something on YouTube that gave me a flashback to my boyhood. Who here is old enough to remember plastic models? Mine were mostly planes and ships, with a string of the Aurora warrior figures. Revell, Monogram…  Who remembers the tiny bottles of model paint, and the distinctive smell of airplane glue before […]

AN AMUSING TAKE ON “GUN CONTROL”

Satire from the Babylon Bee:  

HOW THE MEDIA DISTORTS SELF-DEFENSE INCIDENTS

My old friend Attorney Andrew Branca is the author of “Law of Self-Defense,” which I strongly recommend that you read, and also stars in an excellent regular YouTube channel of the same title.It’s worth a few minutes of your time to watch him here:  He gives multiple examples of clear-cut self-defense shootings that turned into […]

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Louisiana and South Carolina have just become the 28th and 29th states, respectively, to pass so-called Constitutional Carry, allowing law-abiding adult citizens to carry loaded and concealed handguns in public without a permit.  I can remember when that was true of only Vermont. Under constant attack though we are, we lawful gun owners are absolutely winning on […]

ONE IN, ONE OUT

Interesting day on the expert witness side of the house. Learned that the new prosecutor has decided to drop a years-old criminal case against a police officer in a clearly justified furtive movement shooting in which I’ve given both report and deposition for the defense. The case was originally brought by a Soros-funded prosecutor now […]

WHAT TEACHERS LIVE FOR

That’s a much younger me on your left in the photo, but I’m here today to talk about the man on the right. He recently sent me that photo of us taken 33 years ago and wrote, “I attended LFI-I in 1991 as a young kid who had just graduated college, on my way to […]

A LESSON FROM HAITI

What’s happening now in Haiti reminds us why we have the Second Amendment. Armed gangs raided Haiti’s prisons, releasing some 4700 convicted criminals.   Rape, kidnapping, and murder are rampant. The people hide behind closed doors wondering where their next meal is coming from, and whether their doors will be kicked in by armed gang members.  The […]

FASHION TIP UTILITY TIP FROM AN UNLIKELY SOURCE

Old guy here dresses for comfort, not style. I only wear suits for court, weddings, funerals, and teaching CLE. (I think of the business suit as my shinobi shozuku, my ninja suit…it lets me blend with my environment.) I actually did publish an article in the men’s fashion magazine Gentlemen’s Quarterly back in the ‘70s, but they never did […]

STAND YOUR GROUND, ONE MORE TIME

A few states still have laws on the books requiring crime victims to attempt to retreat before using lethal force to protect themselves from deadly danger. Nebraska lawmakers, understandably, saw a need to change that and join the majority, with a “Stand Your Ground” law eliminating that requirement. As usual, the mainstream media misunderstood. As […]