You know how the prohibitionists are always talking about “30,000 plus deaths by gun violence” every year, which they try to lay at the door of law-abiding armed citizens? Most of the general public doesn’t seem to realize that 60% … Read more

When we get old, it is said, we live vicariously through our children.  And if we are old teachers, we live vicariously through the accomplishments of our students and graduates. I recently taught, shot, and learned at the Pacific Northwest … Read more

Did you ever run across a simple “life hack,” a short cut that makes things easier, and think: “Damn, why didn’t I figure that out before?” On my current training tour, my teaching pistol is a compact 9mm semiautomatic, the … Read more

So, here I am in my eighth decade.  (Yeah, OK, 70 years old…but “eighth decade” sounds more pitiful somehow, and will hopefully make women pity me, and console me more than they do…) Just finished my last class of my … Read more