Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 18

YA CAN’T PLEASE EVERYBODY, JOE

If you know someone who believes passionately in decarceration, the emptying of the prisons and jails, and personal recognizance bond for serious criminal suspects, then you probably know someone who will vote for Joe Biden for President and has in the past. CNN, clearly a member of the Biden Media Fan Club, finds that he […]

HOW QUICKLY THINGS HAPPEN

In 1983, a man I am proud to call a friend and colleague, Dennis Tueller then of the Salt Lake City Police Department, did the seminal research that showed a man seven yards away could, from a standing start, reach you with gun or club or homicidal bare hands in one-point-five seconds, on the average. […]

IS PITTSBURGH THE CANARY IN THE MINESHAFT?

Pittsburgh, PA is a city of some 300,000 people. They used to have a damn good police department with enough officers to stay on top of crime.  My old friend and fellow instructor John Farnam recently called our attention to the situation there now. You can read about it here. Yes, there is crime in Pittsburgh. […]

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 […]