A SHOOTING LESSON
Teaching people how to shoot well has been how I’ve made much of my living for many years. Shooting lessons, I remind the students, include the lessons about life that shooting teaches us. I...
LESSON FROM A HELICOPTER CRASH
In the blog entry below this, you'll see a retrospective on a helicopter crash a couple of years ago, with links to discussions on it at the time. You'll also find what we didn't...
GOOD PEOPLE
One of the joys of my work is that it allows me to meet some of the best people in the world: cops and shooter folk. Both tend to be far above average in...
FROM THE QUESTIONABLE IDEA OF THE MONTH DEPARTMENT
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...
SOBERING KNOWLEDGE FROM COPS
The week before last, I attended and taught at the annual conference of ILEETA, the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. Despite the economy, the event drew some 725 police trainers from around...