Recently, there have been a few high-profile, national news attention receiving “road rage” incidents, and I have seen increased chatter on this topic—from a number of angles—on the “gun” forums. As someone who has been driving for about 28 years, most of which has been in the most heavily traveled corridor in the United States, […]
In this new series on the blog, I intend to occasionally highlight the targets and associated drills that I have been using at the range. Since my normal range day is Tuesday and since alliteration is catchy, I’m going to call these occasional posts “Target Tuesday” and will always publish them on a Tuesday! For […]
In this post, in going to share some thoughts on dealing with one of the most dangerous transitional spaces, parking areas, when one is responsible for a small child or children at the same time. This is of interest to me as I play “daddy daycare” at least one day a week, and will soon […]
Kind of amazing that it took me until July to shoot my first match this year, but that’s the way it works sometimes. My schedule of classes, awful late spring weather, family obligations, and some construction at the club where I typically shoot matches really limited me to this point. So it goes. Readers who […]
Although I invariably work during my school’s summer program, I still get a few weeks off every June and August. I would love to say that my wife provides me with a honey-do list, but the fact is that she could not give two hoots what sort of home improvement projects I engage in when […]
On occasion, I think back to situations that I’ve experienced and wondered how things might have gone differently, specifically in the context of being an armed citizen. Recently, having finally finished Andrew Branca’s excellent “The Law of Self Defense” book, I lay awake contemplating potential different outcomes to a property theft that I suffered several […]
I was going to make this a simple Facebook post, but thought it might deserve a little longer post here on the blog. Not unlike my post here, nothing really happened, but I was able to use this situation as a good thought exercise. Background There is a trip made from my house to the […]
