Many of my friends are casual gun owners and cops who carry a gun on a daily basis while they are out in public. Yet as soon as they get home they feel “safe”. They take off their weapon, stash it in a drawer or safe and relax. What most people don’t realize is that […]
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Weekend Knowledge Dump- 3/23/12

Here are a few links to interesting articles I read this week and want to share. Some are intellectual. Some are informative. Some are just fun! If you have some free time, check them out. Man Wisdom at the Alpha Persona Blog. As the article says, masculinity is disappearing from our culture. Here […]
You think you’re having a bad day???
Check out this news article: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120321/LOCAL07/120329892/1043/LOCAL07 This guy was stabbed, kidnapped and locked into a car that was then driven into a quarry! He had to hold his breath as the car filled with water and kick out a window to escape. It’s a horrible story, but it provides some learning points: 1) […]
School Shooting in France

http://rt.com/news/france-shooting-school-881/ Not a whole lot of information on this one yet. Check out the link above for the best report. School shootings are not solely an American problem. Every country needs to plan for an event like this. One thing to note…like many other active killer incidents, the suspect here carried TWO guns. If […]
An Alternate Look at Handgun Stopping Power

Written by: Greg Ellifritz I’ve been interested in firearm stopping power for a very long time. I remember reading Handguns magazine back in the late 1980s when Evan Marshall was writing articles about his stopping power studies. When Marshall’s first book came out in 1992, I ordered it immediately, despite the fact […]