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.…
Category: Self Defense
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
You can’t judge a book by its cover
(Via The Tactical Wire) Advice to cops on dealing with armed citizens.
“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…
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?”…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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. …
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!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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*
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,…
But we can’t arm teachers, because…
(Via Lawdog) It might actually work (or at the very least, not hurt anything)? The next time someone wants to tell you how dangerous it…