Last Friday evening, just before 10pm, an ‘internet cafe’ in Ocala, FL was held up by two armed robbers.  One had what appears to be a baseball bat, the other a pistol.  There were about 30 people inside the cafe. One of the patrons was lawfully carrying a concealed .380 semi-auto pistol (it looks like a Ruger LCP from the video footage). When the bad guys turned their back on him, he pulled his pistol […]

People who advocate controls on gun ownership generally claim that increased firearms ownership would lead to increased rates of violent crime.  Indeed, that is about the only reason they argue against allowing full free access to firearms – their concern about the misuse of firearms. The last couple of decades have seen a massive increase in gun ownership, and a massive decrease in firearms related restrictions, primarily in the form of the huge switch from, […]

Bad guys are clever, and disguise their evil intent by adopting familiar and ‘safe’ seeming guises. In this article, we look at the lessons to be learned in one such case, where what seemed like nothing more than a person begging for change ended up as a brutal beating by four youths. A motorist’s car broke down not far from where he lived, late one night.  He decided the easiest thing to do was to […]

So there you are – returning home after a tiring day at the office, or maybe after an equally tiring time at the mall or supermarket.  Perhaps you have your hands full with shopping bags and other stuff you’re bringing in from the car, trying to bring it all with you in a single trip from the car. Most of all – now that you’re returning back to your home – your place of greatest […]

There is a problem associated with almost all training that you’ll receive on the subject of self-defense.  Your training will not comprehensively cover all situations in which you might need to deploy the skills you are supposedly being taught. This is in part because each person is different, and each situation/scenario is different, and so the correct techniques and tactics should also be different for every person and every situation/scenario. Okay, so sometimes those differences […]

There’s a lot of valuable experience and skill to be gained from time at the range.  We all need regular range time to maintain our shooting skills, because they are ‘perishable’.  Unlike riding a bike – something you learn once and remember always – if you don’t keep practicing your shooting skills, they fade away. However, there’s another sort of learning and experience we can, we should, we must gain as well; and this is […]

It has been our general experience that most people, when taking training or buying a gun, are doing so to protect themselves against a single attacker.  A lone rapist.  A solo mugger.  An independent burglar.  One crazed drug addict.  You get the picture. But this is not necessarily the way it will go down, if/when you end up in a deadly confrontation.  You know that if you see one rat somewhere in your house, that […]

  I was in a basic handgun class recently and we were explaining sight options.  One of the students suddenly and excitedly started talking about laser sights.  ‘You just need to shine the laser at the target, and whatever the laser is pointing at (assuming it is correctly sighted in) your bullets will hit’, he enthusiastically assured us.  He’d seen a video on a laser sight supplier’s website and so ‘knew’ this to be true. […]

The chances are, by the very fact you’re reading this article (and thank you for doing so), you’re at least somewhat sensitive to the need to prudently protect yourselves and your loved ones. Maybe you have a home defense gun of some sort in your bedroom somewhere.  Maybe you carry a concealed pistol with you, too, and if you do so, you’re probably more likely to carry one if/when you’re going somewhere you perceive to […]