BEYOND SYMBOLISM: PROTECTING THE CHILDREN

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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,...

NATIONAL TACTICAL CONFERENCE 2011

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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...

CHAPMAN ACADEMY RETURNS

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I had grown up reading about Ray Chapman, the man the late, great Jeff Cooper called “the maestro” of practical handgun shooting, and got to meet him in Los Angeles in 1978 during a...

MORE ON WARNING SHOTS

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A couple of entries ago, the discussion on a major police association conditionally condoning warning shots drew a lot of commentary here. And we didn’t even get all the way into the topic.  For example,...

NO SLOW WEEKS

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When I was a little kid, I probably drove my mother nuts with how often I whined, “I’m bored!” I don’t say that much anymore. The last four weeks or so have included: Rangemaster Tactical Conference in...