Massad Ayoob's Blog, page 65

THE FIRST RULE OF GUNFIGHTING IS…

…have a gun! The saying is generally attributed to Mark Moritz, and is perfectly true.  It’s also nothing new. While in Texas recently I had occasion to read “Trails and Trials of a Texas Ranger.”  It was written by William … Read more

GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE

The annual Gun Rights Policy Conference is sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and its sister organization, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.  The 2019 conference in Phoenix this past weekend is now in the … Read more

TRAINING OPPORTUNITY

The Evil Princess has asked me to remind all y’all of a couple of training opportunities we’re offering. I’ll be teaching them personally. Details on all, including how to sign up with the local host of our programs, can be … Read more

CRAZY STUFF

Beto O’Rourke’s “Hell yes” we’ll-take-your-guns rant during the latest of the Democrat presidential candidate debates has stiffened the backbone of the pro-gun community.  Good. Perhaps more telling than his own unrestrained and misdirected emotion is that none of the other … Read more

WHY I SO SELDOM READ GUN NOVELS

Most of my recreational reading is non-fiction. I’ll make an exception for a handful of gun-savvy novelists such as Stephen Hunter.  I made the mistake at the local library of picking up a novel about an independently wealthy FBI agent … Read more

A MAN TO WATCH

I recently got a little bit of face time with LTC Allen West. As I told him, I was sorry he didn’t speak longer when I caught him at the NRA Annual Meeting last spring, and I was looking forward … Read more

‘TWAS A NEAR VEER, DEAR…

‘TWAS A NEAR VEER, DEAR… When Hurricane Dorian was drawing near And looked as if it would hit right here, I feared for the woman whom I hold dear And even for our resident deer, We worried about these residents … Read more

A HOPEFULLY UNNECESSARY APOLOGY

The reason is, the Evil Princess and I fled frozen wastelands for the warmth of the South, and are about to pay our tax on that: hurricane season.  As I write this, where we live is dead center in the … Read more

CONFLUENCE OF FOOLS: THE DREJKA CASE

A Florida jury recently convicted Michael Drejka of Manslaughter in the shooting death last year of Markeis McGlockton.  The incident was captured on a surveillance camera. Watch it here…and watch it carefully, and to the end.  The following analysis comes … Read more

A FAMED POLICE GUNFIGHTER PASSES

I was saddened when I got the message from Bill Allard’s son that his dad had passed away. I met Bill in the early 1970s, introduced by his friend and partner Jim Cirillo, whom I had met at a PPC … Read more