Massad Ayoob on Guns
CARRYING A GUN AT HOME?
Ever leave home on an impulse or for a quick errand and realize you didn’t have your wallet, your house key, or your phone? I avoid that by keeping wallet, keys and phone on my...
DON’T DISREGARD AIR RIFLE POWER
Few of us ever got through a December without seeing the iconic movie “A Christmas Story” in which the most memorable and much repeated line was, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”
The kid in...
THE MISUNDERSTOOD CONCEPT OF DISPARITY OF FORCE
Some of the starry-eyed idealists among the gun prohibitionists ask wistfully, “Imagine a world where no one could have a gun.” We don’t need to imagine it. Neanderthals versus Cro-Magnons. The Dark Ages. Worlds...
YA CAN’T PLEASE EVERYBODY, JOE
If you know someone who believes passionately in decarceration, the emptying of the prisons and jails, and personal recognizance bond for serious criminal suspects, then you probably know someone who will vote for Joe...
HOW QUICKLY THINGS HAPPEN
In 1983, a man I am proud to call a friend and colleague, Dennis Tueller then of the Salt Lake City Police Department, did the seminal research that showed a man seven yards away...
IS PITTSBURGH THE CANARY IN THE MINESHAFT?
Pittsburgh, PA is a city of some 300,000 people. They used to have a damn good police department with enough officers to stay on top of crime. My old friend and fellow instructor John Farnam...
THOUGHT-PROVOKING COMMENTARY FROM A RESPECTED LAWMAN
I first met Dave Smith many years ago. He was on the Board I reported to at the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers where I served as chair of the Firearms/Deadly Force Training...
WHO REMEMBERS…?
I ran across something on YouTube that gave me a flashback to my boyhood.
Who here is old enough to remember plastic models? Mine were mostly planes and ships, with a string of the Aurora...
AN AMUSING TAKE ON “GUN CONTROL”
Satire from the Babylon Bee:
https://youtu.be/ytyms4cNSbo?si=5qCGEv4ZH9ZVmn8P
HOW THE MEDIA DISTORTS SELF-DEFENSE INCIDENTS
My old friend Attorney Andrew Branca is the author of “Law of Self-Defense,” which I strongly recommend that you read, and also stars in an excellent regular YouTube channel of the same title.It’s worth...
