Insecure Security Guards
This wasn’t on my recent blogging to-do list, but it hit my radar and I had to vent a little. I just got a case involving an armed security guard who was shot in the face by somebody robbing the…
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Category: Tactical Stuff
Tactical Conference Hangover
I’m not dead! I promise. I almost was, but thank heavens, I managed to pull through, LOL. My extended absence is due mostly to the Rangemaster Tactical Conference, which took place March 17-19, 2017 at the Direct Action Resource Center…
read more →Ozymandias
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.” Proverbs 15:18. This post has been brewing for a while now. Every time I sat down to write it, I ended up in tears. They…
read more →Amazing Grace
I remember reading and seeing depicted in film how respectfully and graciously Generals Grant and Lee came to terms at Appomattox. Maybe they hated each other personally; I don’t know. At the very least, I think it’s safe to say they had some…
read more →Sigh
Here we go again. Stay safe, everyone. And stay open-minded. To the tactical savant who just posted on Facebook that we should all “get behind the fattest liberal for cover,” you’re not helping.
read more →2016 Tactical Conference AAR No. 1
Phew!!! What a phenomenal weekend! All the trainers at the Rangemaster Tactical Conference did a great job presenting their material, and for the most part we didn’t have any insurmountable snafus. I was originally scheduled to present once, but then I…
read more →Runs with Scissors
This woeful mea culpa is the illegitimate love child of feminism and fighting mentality. When LE Targets deigned to print images of weapon-wielding women, children, and old people on sheets of paper meant to draw pistol fire, global outrage erupted….
read more →Dear Tamir…
Dear Tamir, Today is my nephew’s birthday. He’s a millennium baby in the truest sense: born 01/01/00. Isn’t that neat? That makes him a tad older than you would have been, but when I see your picture I think of him…
read more →Kid at Christmas
Yes. I am excited… That is all.
read more →Dominance Paradigm 2.0
Shameless plug!!! Earlier this year, I wrote an AAR on what can only be described as the holy trinity of personal defense training: Tom Givens, William Aprill, and Craig Douglas (a/k/a “Southnarc”) offering their first joint class. The inaugural “Establishing a Dominance Paradigm” course was reserved…
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