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Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns Self Defense

Road to Hell, good intentions, etc.

I’ll spare you the details. It’s just been half crazy around here, but in a good way. Everyone is fine, everything is fine, but busy.…

March 31, 2025
How much is your privacy worth?
Computers Self Defense

How much is your privacy worth?

(Apologies for the prolonged absence. Migraines again/still. I’ll go into that some other time, perhaps.) We have an ever-decreasing amount of privacy left to us.…

September 3, 2024
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns Prepping Self Defense You Are Your Own First Responder

A wake up call if I ever saw one

(Via Open Source Defense) Obviously this isn’t news. We’ve all heard about the church shooting in White Settlement, TX by now. Knowing my audience, I’m…

January 2, 2020February 15, 2021
California Blackouts Prepping Self Defense

Predictably…

California is undergoing a new set of blackouts, and the anger is rising. Remember Michael Bane’s words–violence is a virus and a virus is communicable.…

October 24, 2019February 15, 2021
Prepping Self Defense

Perilous Times

“People everywhere are tightly wound, and it doesn’t take much for them to become unhinged. If you think this can’t happen where you live, think…

October 22, 2019February 15, 2021
Self Defense Situational Awareness

Time and timelines

Of late, we’ve been seeing a ramp up in rhetoric and violence from the Left. Reporters, politicians, academics, sports stars and their hangers on, Hollyweird…

July 23, 2019February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense

Damn shame he had to face him empty handed

Howell “did exactly what we train people to do — you’re going to run, you’re going to hide and shield, or you’re going to face…

May 1, 2019February 15, 2021
Guns Modern Life Skills Self Defense Situational Awareness

You can’t judge a book by its cover

(Via The Tactical Wire) Advice to cops on dealing with armed citizens.

December 4, 2018February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense

“The father is not expected to face charges, police said.”

I should certainly hope so. They ought to pin a medal on this guy. A brave dad armed with a pistol stopped what could have…

October 29, 2018February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Modern Life Skills Self Defense Situational Awareness

Home invasions get worse

I’m sure some of you are thinking “Someone or a group of people has just busted through the door–how is this going to get worse?”…

June 26, 2018February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Modern Life Skills Self Defense

Home invasions

I don’t want to belabor this subject too much; I know we’ve gone over it before. However, this one happened in a nearby small city,…

June 20, 2018February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense Things That Put A Smile On Your Face

Winning

I ran across this article this morning. It has three interesting points about the changing face of gun ownership in the US. It seems 2/3…

June 23, 2017February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense

Zeroing your AR-15

It’s a deceptively simple subject. If you’ve ever been in the service of Uncle Sugar, he says 25 meters and you’re done–or at least he…

June 11, 2017February 15, 2021
Self Defense Things That Put A Smile On Your Face

Brevard County (FL) Sheriff Wayne Ivey Gets It

I wish I could embed this video, but it’s on Facebook, so yeah. (Thanks to True Blue Sam for the lesson in how to embed videos…

June 10, 2017February 15, 2021
Prepping Self Defense

Bullet-proofing

(Via SurvivalBlog) How about a product you can mix on site and apply to your walls to make them bullet proof? If that sounds like…

June 9, 2017February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns Modern Life Skills Self Defense Things That Make You Go Hm-m-m Uncomfortable Thoughts

Complacency kills

Most people figure that if they follow John Farnam’s “3 Rules of Risk Management”: Don’t go to stupid places; don’t associate with stupid people; don’t…

April 24, 2017February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Modern Life Skills Self Defense

The long hot summer

(Links via the Drudge Report) Is the long hot summer starting? Watch this, then watch some of the other videos that will show up on…

February 23, 2017February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense

“He didn’t need to shoot him!”

(Found on Gab) “He only had a knife!” Only.

February 8, 2017February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense

Does this gun make me look fat?

(Via the Drudge Report) I can’t beat the original headline.  Holsters designed for women. Gee–someone finally recognized their bodies are different and making it pink…

September 8, 2016February 15, 2021
Self Defense

You know, I always liked Lynn Russell

Back when CNN was actually a news channel (yes, I am that old), I always enjoyed watching Lynn Russell deliver the news.  She had a…

July 9, 2015February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense

Let’s talk training

(Once again, found on Facebook.  I think there is a conspiracy out there to make Facebook gun friendly.  Works for me.) In his latest post,…

March 14, 2015February 15, 2021
Self Defense

The long version

Say Uncle points us to the long (as in highly complete) version of what to do after a self defense shooting. Lawyering up is Step…

November 1, 2013February 13, 2021
Self Defense

Delivering the beatdown

(Via the Drudge Report) A 70 year old man is at home with his girlfriend and hears a noise in his yard at 3 AM. …

May 10, 2013February 15, 2021
Self Defense

Home invaders 0, home invadee 2

In yet another round of Catastrophic Victim Selection Failure, 2 bad guys win the grand prize. Nice shootin’ Tex!

April 13, 2013February 15, 2021
Self Defense

No, no, teachers don’t want to be armed

(Via the Drudge Report) Except when they do. Here at The Freehold, we are only a couple of months (ish) from out last child leaving…

April 7, 2013February 13, 2021
Self Defense

Nice

(Via the Drudge Report) You know, I thought we had at least passed the whole “They’ll take the gun away from you and use it…

March 6, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns Self Defense

Urk?

(Via the Drudge Report) Bad guys robs a victim who “doesn’t believe in guns”.  Armed good guys show up, go after the robber and for…

January 12, 2013February 13, 2021
Self Defense

What was your first clue?

(Via the Drudge Report) Homeowner awakens at 5 AM to a naked man trying to strangle one of his dogs.  Homeowner confronts him and is…

January 12, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns Self Defense

But why would you need a gun in church?

Because bad guys don’t care about the sanctity of a house of worship. Note that the police suggested security cameras.  *facepalm*

January 5, 2013February 15, 2021
Guns Self Defense

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun? That’s crazy talk!

Yeah, right up until it happens again. You have to wonder what would have happened if the off-duty deputy hadn’t been around.  As it is,…

December 31, 2012February 13, 2021

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