Book Review: After You Shoot by Alan Korwin
Author Alan Korwin is a marketing maven. His book's title and subtitle are an irresistible lure for any firearms owner who knows that saving a life by ending someone else's is a potential path to prosecutorial...
What Not to Do If You’re Kidnapped and Taken to An ATM
Nothing. Don't do nothing. Do something. Anything. Preferably something violent. Escape! In most jurisdictions, if you're being held against your will at gun or knifepoint, the entire event is considered a lethal threat. You...
Question of the Day: Is Armed Self-Defense Plan B?
In this picture, the "victim" is in a bad, bad way. Assuming that's a gat in the mugger's mitt, the driver guy's about to get his proverbial clock cleaned. By the time Mr. Glasses...
Avoid Stupid People Doing Stupid Things in Stupid Places
It's the rabbi's mantra. Well, one of them. And it's worth repeating. Not again, obviously; the headline gets the point across. Of course, an anecdote is worth a dozen adages. A siren's song? Even...
When Worlds Collide. Got Gun?
"It was a violent week in the city," The Providence Journal reports. "With two murders, at least five reported drive-by shootings and an armed home invasion." As a resident of the Renaissance City, this...
Developing a Combat Mindset
I live a defensive lifestyle. Software or mental skills such awareness, avoidance, escape, physical boundary setting and verbal diffusion are my primary lines of defense. This defensive mindset is the foundation of my training and preparation....
A Girl and a Gun. This is News?
I'm not sure that the "issue" of women owning guns isn't just a media conceit. As far as I can tell, women own guns for the same reasons that men own them---only more so...
Question of the Day: Are Gun Owners Responsible for Each Other?
Mikeb302000 doesn't like gun owners much. No surprise there. He doesn't like guns. Or, more specifically, what people with guns do with them. Some people? I'm not sure Mikeb's capable of---or interested in---making...
Castillo’s Jewelry: Anatomy of a Houston Shoot-Out
I just saw this story from Houston's chron.com...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Close Quarters Tactics Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhc-QBXZLn8
Question of the Day: What Would You Have Done?
From adelaidenow.com.au's post 'Panic room' foils eastern suburbs home raid:
The woman . . . had only just gone to bed around 9.30pm when two men used iron bars to smash through the front door. Her...
Another Example: Competition is Not Self-Defense Training
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsoabCEfQB0
"Practical shooting is a sport that evolved from experimentation with handguns used for self-defense." That's the official line from the USPSA website. It cleverly avoids the question: "Is USPSA competition applicable to real world self-defense?"...