For a long time, I have told students, “Learn how to do it the hard way.” ...Huh?! What this means is to not always choose the easiest wa...

The chart below was in an e-mail I received from Dry Fire Training Cards[1] the other day. I have seen it before but, because of a conver...

Wow!! Two people injured in the parking lot of a popular restaurant, one fatally. Who would have thought something like that could happen...

Quite often, we’ll watch an “action movie” or TV show that inevitably has the obligatory shoot-out between the good guy and bad guy. If h...

Niccolo Machiavelli is credited in “The Prince” with saying; “Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati” (Before all else, be armed.) I have...

I shot in my first handgun match in 1978. I won a 5-inch-tall trophy for ‘Best New Shooter’ (I still have it!). Since then, I have shot i...

Do I have your attention? My mentor, John Farnam, posted this: 5 November, 2019 Continuing chaos in Mexico: Three SUVs, containing only u...

Over the years, I have received many phone calls that went something like this; “Hello” “Yes, do you teach self-defense classes?” “Yes we...

I just watched this video from Clint Smith (See it here - Clint Smith). (Clint is quite the character, and the language is a little RAW, ...

· Gilroy, California, July 28, 4 deaths, including the gunman, and 13 injuries. · Dayton, Ohio, August 4, 9 killed and 27 injured. · El P...

In the past week in our area, there have been several shooting incidents in which at least 5 people were killed, and 8 others wounded. It...

Friends!! A favorable outcome to a potentially critical situation. Again, my friend John Farnam gives us an example of what it means to b...

“Don’t think outside the box … Get rid of the box.” 1. “Most Gunfights Start Out as Fist Fights” - Or at least the attacker will be close...

Over the years I have read dozens of books and articles in which the authors listed a host of philosophies, both factual and flawed. Some...

Generally it is thought by the non-shooting public, that shooting a handgun is an almost purely physical act. However, anyone who carries...

Where is the “safe place”? Is it your home? Your neighborhood? Your school? Your Church/Synagogue? Perhaps in this post electronic age, t...

Paris, Brussels, San Bernardino, Orlando, Tel Aviv, Turkey … Much has been written about the ‘First Responders’ to a critical incident. T...

Here’s a couple things that have been on my mind ….. Stalkers I had a former seminar student call the other day and she said she thought ...

As of last week (February 21), I retired from the Hunter Police Department (Department of the Army Police) after ten years as Chief of Po...

Are You Prepared for an Active Shooter or Other Critical Incident? Mass shootings and terrorist attacks seem to be daily news lately. Fir...