KAPELSOHN ON CASTILE

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I have known Manny Kapelsohn for decades.  We have appeared together on numerous panels at national and international training seminars. We serve together on the advisory board of the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network. ...

AND NOW, FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT…

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Among other things, regular readers here know that (A) I don’t usually host guest blogs and (B) as sort of the “resident cop” in the Backwoods Home writers’ stable, I frequently visit criminal justice...

ON A SAD ONE MONTH ANNIVERSARY

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It has been a month since the atrocity in Florida that triggered so much legitimate national grief, and so much misdirected anger and hatred. Here are some profound words from a victim of a...

I WANNA SEE THE SYLLABUS

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Ah.  People want training for police in recognition of replica guns. I wanna see the syllabus. I want to see how anyone who knows the meaning of the word “replica” is going to structure that training. From...

FERGUSON PART III: THE FIRE THIS TIME

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“No good ever came of mass emotion. The audience that’s easily moved to tears is as easily moved to sadistic dementia.”  -- P.J. O’Rourke   We’d have to be hermits not to know what happened in...