Training

Minutes ago as I write this, justice has triumphed in a courtroom in Sanford, Florida. I wish to congratulate six brave, honest, intelligent jurors.  And two fine defense lawyers. And the honest cops and...

I’m spending this week at the High Liability Instructors Conference hosted by the Florida Public Safety Institute and Tallahassee Community College. Cops working alongside paramedics et. al., public servants who respond to dangerous situations...

There is precedent for arming school personnel in the United States, seen here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/12/14/4486104/texas-school-where-teachers-carry.html As discussed in the blog entry below this one, there is certainly precedent for arming school personnel elsewhere in the world,...

Tom Givens’ National Tactical Conference and Polite Society match finished up last weekend at the fabulous US Shooting Academy range in Tulsa. About 100 attendees picked from a smorgasbord of hands-on fighting classes, live-fire...

Thirty years ago today – April 11, 1986 – what may have been the most studied gunfight of the Twentieth Century took place in Dade County, Florida. Eight FBI agents on a rolling stakeout...