GOOD TRAINING FOR A GOOD CAUSE

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Just got back from a pleasant weekend with great people, doing good stuff for a good cause. Tough to beat! The venue was the Central Florida Tactical Conference in Bartow, FL, coordinated by trainer Jim...

FROM THE QUESTIONABLE IDEA OF THE MONTH DEPARTMENT

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In November, a starry-eyed professor postulated that the first cartridge in every police officer’s gun should be a blank. Had the prof done the slightest bit of research, he would have learned that blanks won’t...

POV

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Point of view is critical to assessing eyewitness testimony, all the more when a camera makes eyewitnesses of us all. This point has been made here before, and now comes another excellent example.  It is...

IF I MAY SHARE AN ANNIVERSARY…

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It is January 26, 2015, and I am now two years helicopter-crash-free.  I told the story here shortly after it happened: https://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2013/01/27/dont-be-afraid-of-flying/. I would like to thank the many people who added poignant and sometimes...

FERGUSON PART IV: THANKSGIVING

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On this day of giving thanks, I hope you’re all with friends and family and, if you’re caught in the Northeast storm, I hope you get through it OK. And if you’re in Ferguson, Missouri,...