THRESHOLDS
With our fifty-state patchwork quilt of gun laws, it’s often difficult to know where the armed citizen is legal, and where he or she is not. I constantly check what I consider to be...
MALUM PROHIBITUM
In legal theory, crimes are divided between malum prohibitum and malum in se. Translated from Latin, malum in se means that the thing being described is evil in and of itself, and is probably...
RUSH TO JUDGMENT?
Today, supposedly, a grand jury convenes in Missouri to examine the facts surrounding the death of Michael Brown at the hands of FPD officer Darren Wilson, to determine if an indictable crime has been...
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR SELF-DEFENSE
I love good news.
The District of Columbia was recently found to be out of line in requiring special reasons to fear crime as suitable grounds for issuing a concealed carry permit. Read the decision...
REASONS TO WORRY ABOUT AN HRC PRESIDENCY
Why am I concerned with the prospect of Hillary Rodham Clinton as President of the United States? Let me begin to count the reasons.
For many years I have been a sworn police officer. Mrs....