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...
MEANWHILE, AT ILEETA…
Apologies for the slow blogging this week, folks. The Evil Princess and I drove out of Little Rock Sunday afternoon from the Rangemaster Tactical Conference to St. Louis, where on Monday I once again...
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...
TOXIN-ANTI-TOXIN: A HERO’S STORY
In medicine, grave circumstances sometimes require toxin-anti-toxin therapy: poison against poison. Chemotherapy may make a cancer patient feel sick in different ways, but it can save the patient’s life; therapeutic radiation may have ugly...
CHAPMAN ACADEMY RETURNS
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...