We were all saddened to learn of the unexpected death of one of the most universally loved and admired Americans in history, Dolly Parton. When was the last time a celebrity died and no one had a bad word to say about them? She was the personification of kindness, of niceness, and of generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not to mention practicality. Ms. Parton was One of Us. She wasn\u2019t shy about admitting that she carried a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In about the same 24-hour period, we lost one of the great modern police use of force instructors. Vince O\u2019Neill began his career as a Kansas cop and went on to become a famous instructor at Oklahoma\u2019s state academy. Recognizing the dangers of provincialism in institutional training, he brought in many outside specialists including me to teach there. Vince O\u2019Neill was a true polymath, the rare one who excelled in every corner of a multidimensional discipline: a champion shooter and master firearms instructor, he was also a master of hand-to-hand control and arrest tactics, less-lethal weaponry, and policy development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m sure it was coincidence that they both passed so close together. Still, I like to think that it might just be that when God called for Dolly Parton, he felt she deserved the best possible bodyguard to accompany her on the way up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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