ANOTHER GIANT OF SHOOTING PASSES
While teaching in Arizona last week, I heard from friends at Gunsite Training Center that Jack Weaver had passed. The retired lawman was eighty.
Back in the 1950s when Jack Weaver was a young...
WHY WE USE EXPANDING BULLETS FOR SELF-DEFENSE
PART I
This past Monday I was at a state bar association headquarters, leading a panel discussion they were filming on gun modifications and gun-and-ammo choices as they relate to shooting cases. On the same...
THE GATES INCIDENT IN CAMBRIDGE: IT’S “CLASS,” NOT “RACE”
I deliberately waited until the furor over the Cambridge incident had died down before discussing it here, now. I figured a lot of folks would assume I was the guy with time wearing a...
LIGHTING A CANDLE
On January 8, the Brady Bunch suggested a lighting of a candle as a protest to gun violence.
Awww…how sweet.
The 8th, of course, was the one year anniversary of the grotesque mass murder in Tucson,...
REFLECTIONS ON THE IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENCY
The time between Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s is called by some “President’s Week.” It’s the perfect time to reflect on the character of our nation’s top leaders.
George W. Bush left the office with...