Rhia (left) graduated with an M.D. from UC San Diego
Greetings Sheepdogs,
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Table of Contents:
Prevention
Mindset
Situational Awareness
Safety
Training
Psychology
Practice
Intervention
Strategy
Tactics
Techniques
Postvention
Aftermath
Medical
Survival
Education
Legal
Instruction
Gear
Cryptology
Signals Intelligence
Intelligence
Religion and Politics
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***** ***** ***** Prevention ***** ***** *****
Things you can do to avoid the lethal force incident.
Table of sections:
Mindset
Safety
Training
Psychology
Practice
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------------------------------ Mindset and Attitude --------------------------------
Figuring out the correct way to think.
"I do not carry a pistol so that I may impose my will on others.
I carry a pistol so that others may not impose their will on me."
-- Tom Givens
"The Key!" by John Farnam
Excerpts:
"Guns, privately and anonymously- acquired, owed, kept, and born by individual
sovereign citizens is The Key to both personal and national security!"
"Privately-owned and kept guns will and do dissuade evil-doers the way nothing
else can, far better even than police and standing armies."
"Your life is as good as your mindset." -- Nicola Cavanis
"The Realities of One-Handed Fighting
Forget the sound of one hand clapping; what’s the efficiency of one-hand defense?"
by Jeff Gonzales
"There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men." -- Robert A. Heinlein
If you are an operator, you are never intoxicated. It's not a matter of law,
it's a matter of competence. If you are intoxicated, there is an excellent chance
that you will shoot the wrong person. Because when you are intoxicated, you
won't care. Intoxication impairs judgment.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist.
Children already know that dragons exist.
Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
-- G.K. Chesterton
“My grandfather, a cop and blooded gunfighter, was present one night when
I was a small child and had a nightmare. My parents, of course, were dedicated
to calming me down and included the old canard of "there's no such thing as monsters"
in their assurances. My grandfather later sat me down and told me there were indeed
monsters in the world. "What makes 'em scary," he told me, "is they look like
everyone else. But if you keep your eye on 'em and be on your guard . . . sooner or later,
you'll see the mask slip." ”
-- Jay Winton
"TRADITION UNHAMPERED BY PROGRESS"
If Motobu or Itosu were teleported to 2025, and had a chance to see what we have
today, would their Karate still be the same as it was in 1900? Would they insist on
training in Gi or would they opt for modern clothing? Would you see sai and sticks
on their walls, or would they be fascinated by Glocks and AR-15s? Would they still
insist on lifting stones and eating rice, or would they adopt modern weight lifting
and diets? I wonder.
Are you training to be a better warrior, or only to preserve the past?
-- Gabriel Suarez
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil and
evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." -- Jeff Cooper
You cannot predict the actions of the bad guy, because he doesn't think the way you
think. He is not civilized. He is not socialized. He probably has never had a father
figure in his life. He is probably intoxicated with drugs and alcohol (including nicotine,
never let anyone tell you that nicotine is harmless, look up the word nicotine in the
dictionary and read it carefully).
If you've never been addicted, you don't understand addiction. The addict initially
chooses to take the drugs, an act of volition. He is chasing a euphoric feeling. That
feeling gets harder and harder to achieve with time, as his body builds up a tolerance
to the drugs. Eventually, he can no longer achieve the euphoric state. But, by then
he is addicted and must continue to use the drug to avoid the sickness that comes
with withdrawal from the drug. The pain of withdrawal will drive him to steal to get
the money to buy his drugs. And he will lie to himself, telling himself that he is okay.
And in his mind everything is okay, until it obviously isn't. But hitting rock bottom
is different for every addict, and many never do. They die long before hitting
rock bottom and realizing that they need help. So, they never ask for help.
But, they do hurt a lot of people on the way. Don't be one of those who gets hurt.
There is no nobility in that.
All humans are creations of God. But, not all humans are children of God.
Humans have free will. They can choose to turn away from God, as many do.
Your duty is to recognize them and avoid them, so they don't hurt you and your
loved ones. If you don't take the training to recognize them, you will end up
defending yourself and your loved ones against the criminal predators. If you
don't take the training and practice, you're going to have a real hard time in the
fight. But, that is your choice, as everything in life is.
‟We don’t decide what is necessary to survive a
lethal force encounter initiated by someone else.
That person decides what’s necessary for us to survive.”
– William Aprill
"The Practical Guide to Concealed Carry" by Tom McHale
Excerpt:
You will win 100 percent of the fights in which you don’t participate.
Yes, it’s that simple. Yes, you can learn skills and take action to reduce
the odds of becoming a participant in a fight. No, there’s no guarantee;
no matter how good you are at avoidance, you still might be caught up in
a violent encounter.
It’s all about the odds. Hopefully, most of us don’t plug 19 extension
cords into the same outlet and run an open flame fire pit in the TV room.
Sure, actions like this may not immediately set your house on fire.
However, by doing “less than safe” things, you have certainly increased
the odds of a fire, haven’t you?
There’s an old hardware store saying. The wise shop owner tells their
fresh new employee, “No one ever wants to buy a 1/4-inch drill bit. They
want to buy a 1/4-inch hole.”
That concept applies to concealed carry, too. No rational person wants
to shoot another human in self-defense.
They wish not to die should they ever face an unavoidable violent
encounter that threatens their life.
It’s a critical distinction.
These ideas may sound trite, but when you start reading cases about
unfortunate armed citizens whose lives have been ruined even though
they did the “right” thing in trying to protect their loved ones, you’ll
appreciate the reality.
If you decide to carry a gun for self-protection, it’s your mission and
responsibility to do everything in your power to avoid using it.
"Before all else, be armed." -- Nicolo Machiavelli
"3 Questions To Stay Alive" by Tiger McKee, 2020 A.D.
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
Your mind has to be right before acting.
"The line between everyday life and sudden violence is thinner than most realize."
-- Tim Larkin
Totally based in reality.
"Mindset, Tactics, Skill, and Gear… and learning them."
by Garry Marr
reposted on Bulletn Point with bigger pictures,
Excerpt:
"Saying the words “harm my children and mama bear will come out” has
zero effect on the truth of the matter. One could argue, that if you have to say
those words, it’s a lie. Mama Bear isn’t a teddy bear until her cubs are in
danger. She’s a fucking bear! Do you know why people don’t “poke the bear”
when the cubs aren’t around? Because she’s still a fucking bear. 24/7, she
lives the life of a bear."
"Like most things that are easy, it doesn’t pay the same dividends as the
stuff that is hard. I don’t care how accurately you shoot or how quickly you
can draw, shoot, or reload. There are simple tactics that negate all of those.
These tactics are available. You, the consumer, can find places to consume
them. But you may have to look around more. You may need to travel further,
and you may have to pay higher tuition. But that’s because the culture of
ignoring tactics to focus on skill has left a landscape where it is easier to
find skill-based learning opportunities."
"When we talk about gear, the random gun guy thinks the difference in
magazine capacity or caliber will be a determining factor. But we have to
falsely assume that just about everything else is identical.
That. Just. Doesn’t. Happen."
"Good Tactics can negate any skill discrepancy."
"Tactics trump skills." [Always. -- Jon Low]
"But if you are a 14-year-old kid, raised in a violent barrio with a Phillips
head screwdriver in hand; you could easily end up lifting a chrome plated
1911 out of a tooled leather holster that had previously been covered with
a 5.11 vest, off of your recently expired, easy mark. Shit gear, shit skills,
a conquering mindset, and solid tactics will give that kid a 100% win ratio.
He doesn’t even know what his draw time or his best group is."
---
Tremis Dynamics blog,
"Firearms are second only to the constitution in importance,
they are the people's liberty's teeth." -- George Washington
Awareness, Avoidance, De-Escalation, Escape
“Happiness is the by-product of achievement” -- Jeff Cooper
"Limiting Assumptions" by Mike Seeklander
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qwkojkseeafvpi7nvtf2q/Best-of-2104.pdf?e=2
"Be so focused on watering your grass that
you don't have time to check if someone else's is greener."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"Survival is a mindset, not a skill set."
-- Greg Shaffer
"Your gunfights will always be anomalies.
So are those of all the instructors you venerate.
It’s useful to keep those facts in mind."
-- Greg Ellifritz
“You need to have the capacity for danger. You need to be ‘dangerous’.
Yet, you need to learn how to not use it except when necessary.
And, that is not the same thing as being harmless.
There's nothing virtuous about harmlessness.
Harmless just means you’re ineffectual and useless.”
-- Jordan Peterson
‷If you look at someone bigger, faster, and stronger and immediately think,
‶I'm at a disadvantage″,
I have news for you: you are.
But that's only because you just put yourself there for no reason.
The truth is that anyone can do debilitating violence to anyone else.
Your size, your speed, your strength, your gender --
all the factors that untrained people think make the difference when it comes to violence --
all matter far less than your mindset and your intent.‴
-- Tim Larkin
"Have your affairs in order."
-- John Hearne
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Rarely seen in daylight, but always there.
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------------------------------ Situational Awareness --------------------------------
How to avoid being taken by surprise.
"Many people don't realize that your awareness skills
are more important than your marksmanship skills.
Well, you can't shoot something you don't know is there,
or don't know it needs to be shot!" -- Tom Givens
"Situational Awareness and the Civilian Use of Force"
Excerpt:
"We have also talked about retaliation, and how real that is.
If the suspet survives, or has family members who seek retaliation,
it can be a real concern not only for you, but for your family as well."
"Jeff Cooper's Color Code exists to help you get your head
around the need to kill someone in the immediate future."
-- John Hearne
---
Jeff Cooper's Color Code of Mental Awareness
UNAWARE - of what's going on around you. (White)
AWARE - of who is around you and what they are doing. (Yellow)
ALERT - to a POTENTIAL threat and taking action to avoid the threat. (Orange)
ALARM - by a REAL threat and taking action to escape the threat,
which might include shooting to PREVENT the attack. (Red)
COMBAT - front sight, press. Shooting to STOP the attack. (Black)
"Back to Basics with Jeff Gonzales Episode 2: Situational Awareness"
Transcript below the video, if you'd prefer to read it.
"VIDEO: Don West & Andrew Branca – Escalation of Force"
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It is critically important that you have the reputation of being a good guy and have
no criminal record. Start NOW on achieving both of these goals. Yes, as a matter
of fact, it is possible to have criminal records expunged; arrest records are pretty
easy (it's usually about $800 in legal fees), pardons from the governor or president
are possible. You may apply to the U.S. Department of Justice to have your voting
rights and 2nd Amendment rights restored.
About your reputation. Well, you might have to move to a new state and start over.
But, it may be worth doing. Government bureaucrats are grossly incompetent.
A lot of bad records won't follow you from state to state. Look at all the doctors and
lawyers convicted of malpractice who move over state lines and go on as if nothing
happened.
"An officer may be forgiven for losing a battle,
but never for being taken by surprise."
-- Jeff Cooper
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------------------------------ Safety --------------------------------
How to prevent the bad thing from happening in the first place.
How to avoid shooting yourself, friendlies, and innocent bystanders.
How to prevent unauthorized persons from using your guns.
Jeff Cooper′s Rules of Gun Safety
RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED.
RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING
THAT YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY.
RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER
UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET.
RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET.
---
RULE V: Maintain control of your gun. -- Stephen P. Wenger
"Gun Range Employee Almost Gets Shot!" by The Shooter's Mindset
Hat tip to Tom Givens.
---
This is what happens when the person does not know the safety rules.
If he knew them, this is what happens when the person doesn't obey the rules.
"Gut feelings are guardian angels."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"Critical Incidents!" by John Farnam
---
Greg Ellifritz says --
John Farnam’s commentary about last week’s terrorist attack in Colorado.
The attacker used Molotov cocktails and a flame thrower.
Most of my friends carry weapons and medical gear.
Do you have fire extinguishers in your house and car as well?
Your tourniquet will be of little use to someone who is on fire
after having been soaked in a flammable liquid.
I started carrying fire extinguishers in my car about 10 years
ago after I saw rioters using fire during their activities.
The two extinguishers linked below are smaller than a standard
fire extinguisher, but still work well.
I soaked a police uniform shirt in gasoline and set it on fire
in a backyard fire pit. Both of these extinguishers put out the
flames quickly. You probably should have a few of these
(or other extinguishers) on hand.
Fire extinguishers suggested by Greg Ellifritz,
-- Greg Ellifritz
---
"Weekend Knowledge Dump, 6 June 2025" by Greg Ellifritz
"Safety is something that happens between your ears,
not something you hold in your hands."
-- Jeff Cooper
"Tactical Kindness" by Kirk Wachenheimer
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
Excerpt:
"One of the best ways to build that skillset is to take a standup comedy class,
join a toastmasters group, or take a customer service job, or volunteer opportunity
for a few hours a week. Soft skills save lives!
"It's easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble."
-- Claude Werner
"Defensive Communication" by Kirk Wachenheimer
"You are not responsible for negative reactions to your boundaries."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"The Psychology of Deterring Attackers–Part I
An Interview with William Aprill"
Interview by Gila Hayes
"The Psychology of Deterring Attackers–Part 2
An Interview with William Aprill"
Interview by Gila Hayes
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
"Mass Rioting!" by John Farnam
John Farnam's rules to keep you out of trouble:
Don’t go to stupid places.
Don’t associate with stupid people.
Don’t do stupid things.
Have a “normal” appearance.
Be in bed by 10:00 PM (your own bed).
Don’t fail the attitude test.
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In case you didn't know, before Donald Trump opened the country club Mar-a-Lago,
all of the country clubs in the area refused to accept Negros and Jews.
Mar-a-Lago has never discriminated, except for Jeffrey Edward Epstein,
because Trump thought he was a scum bag.
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------------------------------ Training --------------------------------
Figuring out the correct tasks to practice.
You need training because:
You don't know what you don't know.
Much of what you know is false.
It's good to the have the answers before the criminal tests you.
-- Claude Werner (paraphrased)
"Taking A Training Class Sooner!"
by Mike Seeklander
Excerpt:
"So the other day not long ago at an event where I taught a class,
I overheard one of my students taking to another shooter. The shooter
was expressing their interest in taking a class, but made a specific
point to say that they would not consider one until they had a year or
more of practicing and learning the basics. Seems reasonable right?
Get the basics down and then spend your hard earned money on a class.
NO!
I cringe when I hear people share that thought process."
"the sooner you can take a class, the less likely you will be to ingrain
bad habits that are VERY difficult to fix later."
---
My father would always send me to take lessons immediately upon my showing
interest in a sport. Otherwise, you practice the wrong things, the wrong way and
engrain all kinds of bad habits. No, as a matter of fact, the technique is not obvious.
No, you are not necessarily doing it correctly, just because it feels natural and
comfortable. -- Jon Low
"Most deadly force encounters occur spontaneously, without warning and
at extremely close ranges. Realistically, you may not have the time or the
space to effectively draw, no matter how fast your draw stroke."
-- Jeff L. Gonzales
The Home Defense Show Podcast by Skip Coryell and Sara
"What do the martial arts and gunfighting have in common?"
Excerpt:
"I've been in a lot of gunfights and they were never determined by who
could shoot faster. They were all determined by who could think faster." -- Gabe Suarez
"Physical fitness is a huge part [of self-defense]." -- Gabe Suarez
"A healthy fit person fights better and is harder to kill." -- Gabe Suarez
Kata? Just as a boxer will have a well defined and practiced series of moves,
so should a gunfighter, that he triggers upon a cue (opening or opportunity).
Not just side step off the X (the place you were) upon drawing the pistol.
---
The Home Defense Show on Rumble.com
"There are three different areas, or disciplines, in which the armed person must train.
These are mindset, gun handling, and marksmanship. Each is equally important, and
you must be at least competent in all three areas."
-- Tom Givens
If you're spending a shit load of money to buy a pistol (or other equipment), that
is money you're not spending on training.
You can't afford the training? Ask the instructor to let you help out during the class.
You can play gopher, paste targets, help with moving props, etc. and still learn a lot
if you keep your ears open and your mouth shut.
"In reality, we are training for an unknown event, against unknown threats,
by developing as many known skills as possible."
-- Jeff Gonzales
John Farnam's classes are worth the money just for the history part of the lectures.
(At least that's true from my perspective.)
This past weekend, June 7th and 8th of 2025 A.D., 5 assistant instructors and I
helped John Farnam give an Urban Rifle class in Cross Plains, TN. There were 2
students in the class (originally 3, but one dropped out due to a medical condition).
There were 5 assistant instructors, 2 of whom were disabled due to medical conditions
and so observed and commented, 3 of the assistant instructors were actually geared
up to give demonstrations, I just pasted targets and ran errands.
Most of the students and assistant instructors were running suppressors on their
rifles. They still made a lot of noise. I think you should wear ear protection even
when all rifles are suppressed. Reality ain't like in the movies.
---
Farnam recommends AR-15 platforms in 223 caliber and pistols in 9mm.
Because you must be able to get ammunition and spare parts, and you must be
able to fix your equipment.
The modern AR-15 platforms will hold 2 minutes from the factory. During WWII,
the standard was 6 minutes. So things are much better today.
Iron sights makes your pistol a 20 meter gun. Optics makes your pistol a 30 meter
gun.
Can you perceive a threat at 75 meters? If not, you've got no business shooting it.
So your rifle is a 75 meter gun.
Older rifles had a sight-line 1 centimeter above the bore-line. Modern rifles have
a sight-line 6 cm above the bore-line. Why? Because modern rifles are capable of
a higher rates of fire. [Not that you should exercise a high rate of fire, automatic fire
in self-defense is criminal stupidity. -- Jon Low]. So the barrels heat up and you
get mirage (optical distortion) when sighting over the barrel. So the designers moved
the sights further away from the hot barrel.
The AR-15 platform with 30 round magazines is best. You may use the magazine
as a monopod.
Zero (point of impact is exactly the same as your point of aim) your rifle at 40
meters. This zero will cause your rifle to also be zeroed at 240 meters. The advantage
of this zero is that all points of impact will be within 6 cm of your point of aim from
ranges of 0 to 260 meters. Which is optimal for our purposes.
A lethal hit from your rifle will be from neck to navel within 2.5 inches from the
center line (spine).
When in close, you must aim high to compensate for the displacement of your
sights above your bore. Also when shooting over cover. So on a facing target, the
2 meter hostage shot requires you to aim at the middle of the eye brows. If you
don't practice this, under stress you'll be shooting at the center of the cranio-ocular
cavity and hitting teeth or jaw bone.
Study to learn the difference between "brandishing" and "defensive display" in
the jurisdiction in which you live.
Study to understand "manifest intent", as opposed to jeopardy or intent. Your
ability, or your attorney's ability, to articulate this may be the difference between
going home and spending the rest of your life in a penitentiary.
Your articulation of the threat must be fact based, not what you thought, what
actually happened. The bad guy's verbalizations, posture, etc.
You must understand preclusion (form of the word "preclude") and be able
to articulate why your were not able to disengage and separate. Because the
prosecutor will want to know.
Learn Andrew Branca's 5 elements of self-defense:
Innocence
Imminence
Proportionality
Avoidance
Reasonableness
https://lawofselfdefense.com/foundations-the-5-elements-of-self-defense-law/
How do you avoid the lethal force confrontation?
Don't be there. Get out of there.
John Farnam's rules to keep you out of trouble:
Don’t go to stupid places.
Don’t associate with stupid people.
Don’t do stupid things.
Have a “normal” appearance.
Be in bed by 10:00 PM (your own bed).
Don’t fail the attitude test.
When carrying, you must be able to blow a 0.0.
Our goals are:
To die of old age and
not spend time in a penitentiary.
In 29 of 30 confrontations the threat will run away when you present your pistol.
(You win without firing a shot. A much better outcome.)
But if he chooses to attack and you are armed with a pistol, it would be best to
shoot him in the navel (because it is the center of mass of the body and therefore
moves the least) and then 3 more shots up the center line to his neck. If the
assailant chooses to run away after you shoot him, he will bleed out within
30 meters.
If presenting your weapon doesn't convince the threat to leave and there is time,
a verbal challenge may be in order.
"Police! Don't move."
"Put your weapon down."
Because this is what police say. (Impersonating a police officer? This is not the
time to be worrrying about that sort of thing. A competent attorney will take care
of any misunderstandings.)
Point at the threat's navel to keep your field of view clear, so you can see his
hands.
If armed with a rifle, fire 2 rounds and then MOVE. The higher speed of the
rifle bullets should give us the neural shock to cause the assailant to stop the attack.
The purpose of a body shot is to lower the assailant's blood pressure. At about
80 mm of Hg a person will feel light headed.
After shooting a person, you can expect a minimum of 5 seconds for the assailant
to react to being shot, probably more like 20 to 30 seconds. We are in reality, not
movies or TV.
Rifle bullets will travel at about 3000 feet per second. Neural shock occurs when
the bullet enters the body at about 2200 feet per second. Neural shock causes a
paralytic effect.
Suggested things to say to the responding officers (in order):
"Thank God you're here."
"I'm the one who called you."
"They attempted to murder us."
"We feared for our lives."
"We will testify against them."
"I will cooperate after I speak to my attorney."
Always carry a tactical flashlight (bright enough to blind an assailant).
TSA will allow you to board the plane with your flashlight. You minor
children can carry such flashlights without problems.
The most dangerout places are driveways and parking lots.
"Sorry, Sir. I can't help you." While shining light in his face to blind him
and moving away quickly.
Light on while stationary. Light off and move.
Grease the cam raceway in your bolt carrier group.
Clean your bore after your live fire session to avoid suspicion of your
weapon being used in a recent crime.
Carry with muzzle down, always. If your rifle is grabbed, fall back, point at
assailant, and fire.
In combat, if your are 80% confident, take the shot. If you wait to be 100%
confident, you will never take the shot. If you can't get to 80%, drop to a lower
more stable position, brace against a support, or advance to make the target
larger.
There were many positions demonstrated. I refrain from mentioning details
as I think you have to see them and practice them to understand them.
It is up to you to teach the next generation. As Ronald Reagan said, we are
only one generation away . . .
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Things I [Jon Low] noted during that class and feel obliged to comment on --
Head up and erect. Shoulders down and relaxed. Bring the rifle up to your
aiming eye.
DO NOT move your head down to the rifle! That is not what your neck is for.
DO NOT bring the rifle stock up by hunching your shoulder.
Move the butt of the rifle up so that the toe of the stock rests against your
clavicle close to your neck. That is CORRECT. Learn and understand what is
correct, so that you can strive to achieve correct form / posture. That will allow
you to hit your target every time, on demand under stress.
The reason John Wick looks cool and you look like a goof, is because of your
posture, which is body language. The vast majority of communication is
non-verbal body language. If you can convince the bad guy that you are a
competent operator via your body language, you won't have to shoot him.
That's a big win for you.
Tense muscles are slow muscles. Relaxed muscles are fast muscles. It's hard
to get your fast twitch muscles to respond when the muscle group is tense.
So practice in the mirror (with an unloaded rifle). You will see your shoulders
hunched up. You will see your head down and leaning over to the side. But
because you can see it and no one else is there to embarrass you, you will
automatically correct your bizarre posture. Your coach could tell you hundreds
of times, but you won't believe him. That is human nature. So you must practice
in the mirror to see it yourself.
You should want your head erect. Your inner ear is in your head. If you tilt
your head, your inner ear will tell all of the muscles in your body to right your
tilted body. That will cause all kinds of physiological problems and you will
miss your target. [Most of balance is visual cuing, looking at horizon lines,
corners where the walls meet, etc. But when you are concentrating on the target
and your sights, you will lose all the visual cuing, and your inner ear balance
will be essential for accurate shots.]
"But I can't get my eye behind the sight unless I tilt my head!"
That is FALSE. You can cant the rifle. Or you can mount the sights to the
side of the rifle instead of directly over the top of the rifle. If you can't get this
to work, ask me, and I will help you.
-- Stuff I [Jon Low] learned by attending coaches classes at the Olympic Training
Center in Colorado Springs, CO. All kinds of interesting things are going on at
that facility. It's not just Olympic sports.
---
Older gun powders (carbon, sulphur, potasium nitrate mixture) exploded.
That means there was a supersonic detonation shock wave. Modern propellents
(nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose mixtures), burn rapidly. That means there is no
supersonic detonation shock wave.
---
I was trained by 1st Brigade Service Support Group (of the 1st Marine
Expeditionary Brigade) as a battalion armorer and served as a battalion armorer
with 1st Radio Battalion, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. So I sort of know what
I'm talking about when I say, light firing pin strikes on your primers is NOT okay.
I had other assistant instructors telling me that the AR-15 rifles have a floating
firing pins, so it's not unusual for the firing pin to hit the primer when the
cartridge is chambered. This is FALSE! If the firing pin is hitting the primer
when the trigger is not pressed, you've got a big fucking problem with the rifle.
And as we saw in the class, the rifle will fire without a trigger press.
No, blown out primers was not the problem. The blown out primers were a
symptom of the problem. But I'm old, so nobody listens to me.
“Train, Practice, Compete
are the key elements in the development of humans.”
-- John M. Buol, Jr.
"Confidence Killers
Increase your skills by building a positive feedback loop."
by Steve Tarani
"To . . . not prepare is the greatest of crimes;
to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest virtue."
-- Sun Tzu
"70+ Concealed Carry Mistakes and How to Avoid Them [Update]"
by Jacob Paulsen
“The secret of success is this.
Train like it means everything when it means nothing –
so you can fight like it means nothing when it means everything.”
-- Lofty Wiseman
"Cold Ranges Are Unsafe: A Critical Discussion"
by Zach Bush
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
Bulletn Points blog,
---
"Sarah Brady loves cold ranges." by Garry Marr
Excerpt:
"The purpose of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is to have an armed populace.
A jackboot in a red hat who demands you be unarmed is directly opposite to that
belief. I hear you saying right now,
“But for new people who don't know what they are doing, it makes sense.”
No, it doesn’t. Is that the message you want to tell somebody just starting down
the path? That having a loaded gun is too dangerous, and you are best served by
being disarmed? I’ve heard that before. It’s the rallying cry of the Civilian
Disarmament regime."
"Safe gun handling and knowing how to operate the gun competently is one thing.
How to fight with the gun is a whole other plane of knowledge."
-- Tiger McKee
"Mental Toughness 101 – Thoughts On Improving The Mind"
by Mike Seeklander
Excerpt:
"The “miss” (a mistake) in our sport happens at high speed, within the
subconscious level of thought processes (usually), and can’t be controlled
(most of the time), even though you may know you are making the error.
Why can’t it be controlled? Likely, because you have trained yourselves
to make the error."
“If you are reading this and can’t put your hand on your defensive firearm,
all of your training is wasted.” -- Col. Jeff Cooper
"If you’re not measuring your training,
what you’re doing is called playing."
-- Chris Sajnog
"In order to measure, we must be able to quantify."
-- Aaron Cowan
"When you're training to protect yourself and others, speed always comes last.
In the more than twenty-five years I've been training people in self-protection,
I've never heard from someone who used self-protection tools in the field and
felt like they suffered from a lack of speed at the moment of truth. In fact, I
usually hear the opposite: it's much more common to suffer from a lack of
accuracy or force." -- Tim Larkin
"A mistake that makes you humble is better
than an achievement that makes you arrogant."
-- Nicola Cavanis
“Training deals not with an object,
but with the human spirit and human emotions.”
--Bruce Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always
possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Richard Henry Lee
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
“It may seem difficult at first but everything is difficult at first.”
-- Miyamota Mushashi
"We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution
was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists."
-- Patrick Henry
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------------------------------ Psychology --------------------------------
Email from Orion Taraban, Psy.D. Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
"Going the distance."
I don't particularly enjoy exercising, but I respect the advantages it confers upon me:
improved mood, heightened clarity, better energy. However, the activity itself is one
that I generally tolerate passing through. This is especially true of running. When I run,
I spend most of my time doing math in my head to distract myself from the experience.
I try to calculate, say, the percentage of ground already covered or the duration yet to
endure.
And the habit of doing so has taught me two valuable lessons. First, it has instructed
me in the importance of creating small, achievable goals. Breaking a long run into
shorter legs helps keep me focused and engaged. In fact, I've learned I only ever have
to run half the distance, and then half the remaining length, and then half again, etc.,
until the run completes itself.
And second, it has taught me the usefulness of overestimating my total workout.
By steeling myself for a longer run, I experience relief when it ends sooner (as opposed
to frustration when it doesn't). Most games in life at least include the possibility of
overtime. Expecting things to conclude on schedule is functionally asking to be annoyed.
This isn't about running.
This week's behavioral experiment:
Break a larger project into a series of smaller goals.
Complete the first of those goals today.
Warmly,
Orion
"Perception vs. Perspective" by Andrew Bustamante
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------------------------------ Conferences --------------------------------
Attending classes and conferences is required for growth.
Stagnation is complacency. Complacency kills.
"The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword;
because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force
superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense,
raised in the United States."
-- Noah Webster
TFALAC’s 2025 Annual Event
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Farm Bureau Expo Center at the
James E. Ward Agricultural Center on the
Wilson County Fairgrounds.
945 East Baddour Parkway
Lebanon, Tennessee 37087
Zoom conferences at
09:00 Central Time
Saturday mornings
Click on link
"Guest Link to Sheepdog Coffee"
to download the Zoom link.
JUNE 7: Brink Fidler
JUNE 14: Ed Monk
JUNE 21: Paul Lake
JUNE 28: Ron Lugo & Rick Hunt
40th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference! Free.
Sept. 26 - 28 in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the
Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek.
Gun Owners of America annual meeting, free of charge
Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, TN
9 - 10 August 2025 A.D.
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GOA Defend Her High Caliber Brunch, $15
Sunday, August 10th at 11:00 AM
The Marriott Ballroom in Knoxville, TN.
7th Annual Security Operations Summit (SOS.25)!
July 24-26, 2025 San Antonio, TX
Cornerstone Church
Bullets & Bibles Conference, $750
Friday, September 12, 2025 – Sunday, September 14, 2025
Living Water Ranch, north of Manhattan, KS.
For more information about lodging (free lodging in the dorms) on site or
meals (3 meals a day included in registration fee) or
if you have any questions regarding the event,
contact our Bullets & Bibles Conference Coordinator,
Vonda Copeland
director@fhftc.org
or call 785-293-2449.
Guardian Conference, $800
September 19th - 21st, 2025 in Oklahoma City
Rangemaster Tactical Conference, $639
TacCon26 is scheduled for
March 27-29, 2026 at
the Dallas Pistol Club in Carrollton, Texas
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------------------------------ Classes --------------------------------
Attending classes and conferences is required to avoid teaching
obsolete material, and to ensure you are teaching best practices.
"Advanced Defensive Handgun" by John Farnam
08-09 November 2025
Nashville, TN (well, actually a bit north in Cross Plains, TN)
Venue: Deer Hollow Fire Arms Training
"Women’s Concealed Carry Holster Class"
by Shannon Carr Pable
Cherokee Gun Club
Sunday, July 13, 2025 A.D.
10:00am -4:00pm est
1700 Candler Rd, Gainesville, GA, United States, Georgia
(770) 531-9493
Cherokeegunclub.org
Applied Defensive Handgun Skills - Oklahoma
Date: June 14-15, 2025. 8:00am - 5:00pm
Facility: Mead Hall Range (35 miles from Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City.)
Location: 35.40871880149046, -97.07185625546859
(In Google Maps input "Mead Hall Range")
West Coast Armory North, John Holschen
11714 Airport Rd Everett WA, 98204
425-265-7143
rangemaster@westcoastarmorynorth.com
Law of Self Defense, live online class upcoming dates
September 27, 2025
TFI Academy (Keith Tyler)
Training in Context (Tatiana Whitlock)
Active Response Training (Greg Ellifritz)
Modern Warriors
Rangemaster Certified Instructors
Map of Rangemaster Certified Instructors
Dustin Salomon
KR Training
Kari Grayson
Citizens Safety Academy
Carry Trainer, Mickey Schuch
Paladin Training, Inc.
Citizen-Defender, John Murphy
Virginia Private Firearms Training (for private lessons), John Murphy
Defensive Training International, John Farnam
Quips,
Rangemaster, Tom Givens
Newsletter,
Trident Concepts, Jeff Gonzales
Apache Solutions, Tim Kelly
Harris Combative Strategies, Randy Harris
Mead Hall Range & Tactics
Two Pillars Training, John Hearne
Mike Seeklander
‟Training is NOT an event, but a process.
Training is the preparation FOR practice.”
-- Claude Werner
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float with just their nostrils and eyes above the surface of the water,
and can move very quickly to attack things on the shore of the ponds
scattered about the residential areas.
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------------------------------ Practice --------------------------------
How to get proficient at that task.
"Remember, the day you plant the seed is not the day you earn the fruit."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"There is no glory in practice, but without practice there is no glory."
-- Jeff Gonzales
"Failure is evidence that someone tried to do something."
-- Ingersoll
"You have to be lucky to win. And the more you practice, the luckier you get."
-- Col. Lones Wigger
Why practice?
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are
figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very
special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy
if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could
have been their finest hour.”
-- Winston Churchill
‶Practice is the small deposits you make over time,
so that in an emergency, you can make that big withdrawal.″
-- Chesley Burnett Sullenberger, III
"People rust faster than equipment."
-- John Hearne
‟Be careful what you practice.
Because you will do in combat whatever you have practiced,
no matter how ridiculous.”
-- ‶Shooting in Self-Defense″ by Sara Ahrens
"Shoot as much as you want but if you start to get shaky,
it’s time to go home."
-- Duaine Zeitz
"Your speed doesn't matter. Forward is forward."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"Practice your shooting by doing exactly the same thing,
exactly the same way, every time, until it is completely automatic."
-- Duaine Zeitz
“Willingness is a state of mind. Readiness is a statement of fact!”
-- Lt. Gen. David M Shoup, USMC Commandant 1960-1963
Everyone wants to win. Few are willing to put in the practice to ensure their win.
"Remember, growing may feel like breaking at first."
-- Nicola Cavanis
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***** ***** ***** Intervention ***** ***** *****
Suggestions on how to deal with the incident that you failed to avoid.
Table of sections:
Strategy
Tactics
Techniques
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------------------------------ Strategy --------------------------------
Deciding on the end state and how to achieve it,
which tools to use, which tactics to use,
which always includes walking away.
"Never let fear decide your fate." -- Nicola Cavanis
“How do you win a gunfight?
Don't be there.”
-- John Farnam
"You win gunfights by not getting shot."
-- John Holschen
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------------------------------ Tactics --------------------------------
Maneuver and fire in support of your strategy.
"Superior judgment trumps superior skills." -- Dan Millican
"Nashville Officers Forced To Act When Hostage Taker Snaps"
by Active Self Protection
If the suspect takes a hostage and doesn't surrender when the cops tell him to surrender,
the cops are going to shoot the suspect. The hostage taker created the situation and got
his comeuppance.
Yes, of course the family of the hostage taker will sue. And in Davidson County,
they will probably win a large judgment. It's hard to be a cop in Nashville, that's why
they are grossly understaffed. It's effectively impossible to find a jury pool that will
vote for the cops. Remember Officer Andrew Delke of the Nashville, Tennessee
police department? I couldn't help but notice that every public restroom that I have
been in recently has a recruiting advertisement for the Nashville Police Department.
What does that tell you? (No, I have not checked the women's restrooms.)
"Real fights are short." -- Bruce Lee
Good guy attacked by two bad guys.
Hat tip to Gabe Suarez.
The weapon mounted light doesn't seem to be necessary for identification
in the given lighting condition. But the blinding effect was good.
"You often don't know where the bad guy is who is shooting at you."
-- Phillip Groff
"Police officer was unintentionally shot and killed by fellow officer during chase"
by WLS via CNN Newsource
Hat tip to Stephen P. Wenger.
Stephen's comment --
"Reported elsewhere, Rivera was serving on a tactical unit, where one would
expect a higher level of training to function in the potentially confusing environment
of a gunfight. This serves as a tragic reminder for private citizens – who lack the
identification of a uniform – to avoid getting embroiled in police operations."
-- Stephen P. Wenger
"The shorter the fight, the less hurt you get."
-- John Holschen
"How to Survive a Home Invasion" by Randall Chaney
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
Excerpt:
Speed, Aggression, Surprise
“People shoot you because they see you.
They see you because you let them.
Don’t let them see you.”
-- Clint Smith
"Without discrimination,
you're going to shoot the wrong person really fast."
-- Paul Howe
“Fortuitous outcomes reinforce poor tactics.”
-- Chuck Haggard
“When you’re in the dark, stay in the dark;
when you’re in the light, light up the dark.”
-- Stephen P. Wenger
"Be stronger than your strongest excuse."
-- Nicola Cavanis
‟Fear is an instinct. Courage is a choice.”
-- Rear Admiral Joseph Kernan, U.S. Navy
"Having a gun is important.
But knowing WHEN to use it is even more important."
-- Greg Ellifritz
"You brought a gun to the fight. That doesn’t mean it’s YOUR gun.
The gun belongs to whomever can keep it. Think about that before intervening
in other folks’ problems. When is the last time you practiced your in-hand
weapon retention skills?"
-- Greg Ellifritz
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". . . if the assailant has a gun, it may actually be the easiest
gun for you to access, if you know how to take it from him."
-- Stephen P. Wenger
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When was last time you practiced your in-holster weapon retention skills?
Have you taken a class to learn such techniques?
“You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol
than you are a musician because you own a guitar.”
from "Principles of Personal Defense" by Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC,
(1920 – 2006 A.D.)
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------------------------------ Techniques --------------------------------
Ways to execute a given task in support of your tactics,
especially when disabled or under stress.
"Ineffective and potentially dangerous, point shooting should be avoided at all costs
and aimed fire employed in any lethal-force scenario."
-- Massad Ayoob
"Under-Fire Reload Tactics" by Mike Boyle
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
“What’s the number one reason for reloading?
Missing the target!”
-- Claude Werner
From email from Tim Larkin --
I need you to watch something. It's security footage of a man surviving
a 2-on-1 armed attack. But what makes this footage important isn't just that
he survived . . . It's HOW he survived. Because he instinctively did
something that goes against everything most "self-defense experts" teach.
When faced with an armed attacker, most people are taught to focus on
the weapon.
To grab it.
To twist it away.
To "disarm" the threat.
But that's exactly how you get killed. This survivor did something different.
Something so simple - yet so powerful - it completely disrupted the attack.
"The Critical Movement That Saved This Life" by Tim Larkin
Pay special attention to the 0:38 mark.
It's a perfect example of why the "common wisdom" about surviving violence
is dangerously wrong. This is the same principle I've been teaching for decades:
When violence is real . . . pure physics beats fancy techniques every time.
Everything else is just theory.
Stay Safe,
Tim Larkin
"It's not daily increase but daily decrease - hack away at the inessentials!"
-- Bruce Lee
"Grip first, then press."
-- Mike Seeklander
"Use only that which works,
and take it from any place you can find it."
-- Bruce Lee
"Denn jedes Mal, wenn was geht, ist Platz für Neues.
Und wenn es gestern nicht sein soll, dann klappt es heut 🦋"
-- Nicola Cavanis
There are many techniques for doing any given task.
Search and experiment until you find one that works for you.
"The foundations of your grip are established
before you even draw the pistol from the holster."
-- Tanner Denton
"Why are the little things called little things?
They are everything."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"Train and practice so that you can stay in your rational mind,
and force your enemy into his emotional mind. The emotional
mind makes bad judgments which will allow you to win."
-- John Hearne
"Those motivated by a desire to improve their
gunfighting skills as opposed to a quest for trophies,
must be willing to bleed ego on the match results
to avoid shedding blood in combat."
-- Andy Stanford
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***** ***** ***** Postvention ***** ***** *****
Suggestions on how to treat your wounds or the wounds of your loved ones.
Suggestions on how to avoid prosecution, conviction, and prison time.
Suggestions on how to avoid the civil law suit and judgment.
Table of contents:
Aftermath
Medical
Survival
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------------------------------ Aftermath --------------------------------
You must be alive to have these problems: criminal and civil liability.
“Your understanding and consent are not required
for someone to take your life, kill your loved ones,
and destroy all you hold dear.”
-- William Aprill
In the right hand column of this web page, click on "Never Talk To The Police"
or use the address,
"Self-Defense and the Law: Know What to Say to the Police After a Good Shoot"
by Massad Ayoob
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
In the right hand column, click on the link labeled "Self Defense Insurance".
Or, the link is,
Read this before you buy insurance. You need to make an informed decision.
The various policies are drastically different.
"You need to read the fine print." -- Massad Ayoob
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,
but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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------------------------------ Medical --------------------------------
"If you prepare for the emergency,
the emergency ceases to exist!"
-- Sherman House
2 day TECC (Tactical Emergency Casualty Care) Course.
June 20-21, 2025
Longhollow Church
Hendersonville, TN
Course will run from approximately 8 AM to 5 PM both days and
you must attend both full days.
You will leave the course with a 4 year certification through the NAEMT.
The link to register is:
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Best,
Tracey Mendenhall | VP of Operations
(Life Saving Ninja)
DEFEND SYSTEMS
www.defendsystems.com
(615) 480-7758
If you can't make the above class, you can check below for the next class.
Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Course - NAEMT Certified, $495.00
“Your character is what you do when no one is looking.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
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------------------------------ Survival --------------------------------
"Survival is a mindset, not a skill set."
-- Greg Shaffer
Email from Orion Taraban, Psy.D. --
"Rest before you quit." Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Many years ago, while solo hiking a portion of the Pacific Crest Trail,
I found myself in a precarious situation. After spending a dazzling summer's
day climbing an icy Forester Pass, I came down with an advanced case of
snow blindness. I had broken by sunglasses a few days before, and my eyes
soaked up all that reflected UV light without protection. For those who
don't know, snow blindness is essentially a sunburn on your retina. It feels
like there are two handfuls of burning-hot sand behind your eyeballs.
It was – as should go without saying – extremely painful.
The next morning, I could barely open my eyes – and daylight seemed
to increase the temperature of the sand tenfold. So I tied a bandana in front
of my face and – through the veil of the cloth – slowly began to make my
way up and over the mountains that formed the eastern wall of King's Canyon.
From there, I could make my way down to the highway on the desert floor
and hitchhike back to civilization. I ended up in a charming little town called
Lone Pine, where I spent the day in the darkest room available.
When I called my dad to tell him what had happened, he urged me to give
up the hike and come home. It was too dangerous for me to be tramping
around the wilderness by myself. And while he may have had a point, I had
made a commitment to myself to see the thing through to the end. I told him
I would rather die than quit, which – I'm sure – did little to allay his concerns.
It turns out that snow blindness – while intensely painful – isn't permanently
debilitating. In fact, I was back on the trail after just one night at the hostel,
new sunglasses in tow. And while I looked hideous – the whites of my eyes
were completely red for at least a week – I was no worse for wear.
The experience taught me that – sometimes – I don't need to quit. I just need
to rest. This isn't about snow blindness.
This week's behavioral experiment:
Where in your life do you feel ready to quit?
See what happens if you take a break instead.
Warmly,
Orion
"Survival is not based solely on technique. Survivability may hinge on the use
of the correct technique appropriate to the environment you are fighting in.
Oh, and yes, marksmanship is always valuable."
-- Clint Smith
"If you stay fit, you do not have to get fit.
If you stay trained, you do not have to get trained.
If you stay prepared, you do not have to get prepared."
-- Robert Margulies
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***** ***** ***** Education ***** ***** *****
Table of contents:
Legal
Instruction
Gear
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"You will never get smarter or broaden your horizons
if you're unwilling to learn from others and read."
-- Becca Martin
"Best Of The Blog - 2014
A COMPILATION OF CRITICAL INFORMATION"
by Michael R. Seeklander
Women for Gun Rights
"The Practical Guide to Concealed Carry" by Tom McHale
Excerpt:
You may have heard it before. A seemingly innocuous comment by someone
who has not (yet) embraced the reality that the world can be a dangerous place.
“Why would anyone need to carry a gun in a coffee shop?"
Sounds innocent enough, right? The problem is that the perspective is all wrong.
As a legally armed citizen, you don’t want your gun or any other to become a factor
in a coffee shop visit. You have no intention of using your gun in a coffee shop or
anywhere else, for that matter. So what’s the problem?
The problem is this. Whether or not you “need” a gun in a coffee shop is not
your decision. That decision is made by one person and one person only — someone
who intends to inflict harm. If you got to choose where and when people committed
crimes and whether you’d even be present, we’d have a chronic shortage of victims.
Who in their right mind would go to a place where they knew a crime would occur?
Sure, you can stack the odds in your favor by not going to places where crime is a
higher probability. You can decide not to wander dark alleys with a stack of $20 bills
hanging out of your back pocket. You’ll certainly reduce your chances of becoming
the next armed robbery statistic. But if some creep out there decides to rob the local
coffee shop, and you happen to be there, you’re now involved, like it or not. And
therein lies your choice. You can recognize that while some places have a lower
likelihood of criminal activity, you don’t get to decide whether there will be a
criminal encounter. That’s up to the other guy.
The point here isn’t to “prove” you need a gun in a coffee shop, figuratively
speaking. The point is this.
You don’t get to decide where you do or don’t need a gun.
The criminal is solely responsible for that decision. Sure, logic says you shouldn’t
need a gun at the grocery store or playground, but criminals don’t adhere to your
definition of logic.
Your choices are simple. You can play the odds by frequenting
places where “no one would possibly need a gun” and hope for the best. That’s your
call. You can also choose to prepare, knowing that you don’t get to pick the battlefield.
There are two things under your control that will help improve your odds of going
through life without becoming a statistic, and neither of them is simply “having a gun.”
Training
If nothing else, this book will reinforce the importance of learning. Not just a
one-time study reading this or any other resource on the topic of self-defense and
concealed carry, but a lifelong commitment to maintaining a risk-reduction lifestyle.
As we will discuss, buying and carrying a gun means virtually nothing. Without
training in a host of areas, only part involving gun handling, you’ll have significant
gaps in your personal and family protection strategy.
So, we’re going to encourage you to go out and get credible and professional
hands-on training. Carrying a gun is an enormous responsibility, and it’s up to you
to treat that commensurate with its potential for life and death consequences.
When you take a personal defense training class, I hope it scares you. A good
class should make you realize how much you don’t know. That’s the right starting
point for your concealed carry journey.
Planning
Good planning leads to success, and the best way to start your planning journey
is to embrace reality ruthlessly.
We’ll discuss strategies for living a more “switched-on” and observant lifestyle
in more detail, but for now, consider your daily routines, potential problems, and
what you would do about them.
We would all respond to an emergency in a fantasy world by rising to the occasion
and doing something heroic to save the day. But we only tend to succeed at things
we’ve already done before. Humans rarely “rise to the occasion” but rather fall back
to their lowest level of training and preparation. The chaos of a life-and-death
encounter isn’t the time or place to figure out a defensive strategy.
Sheer desperation rarely makes up for lack of preparation.
I’m not suggesting you go through life as a twitching and paranoid jumble of nerves.
In realistic and rational terms, I suggest you think about things that could go wrong
and what your response would be.
When I was in school, CPR training was part of the curriculum. While I’ve yet to
use that particular skill, I’m confident I know enough about it to take positive and
helpful action if the need ever arises. If I never had that class, would I have the
vaguest idea of what to do if someone clutched their chest and fell to the ground?
As you read this book, consider scenarios that might apply to your life. What would
you do if you were in a convenience store and the guy in front of you pulled a gun and
demanded money from the cashier? How about if you were walking down the street
and gunfire between two individuals erupted nearby? What if you’re in a restaurant,
and someone presents a gun and starts making threats?
Making decisions in advance about possible events might save your life. Suppose
you’ve already thought about bolting through a restaurant kitchen and out the back
door during an emergency. In that case, you’re far more likely to overcome social
and embarrassment inertia should such an occasion ever arise. By considering such
things in advance, you’ll be far more likely to respond in a decisive manner.
Case Study: Self-Defense Isn’t Just About You
Marquel White, 26, and his 2-year-old daughter had just left a Fayetteville, NC,
Food Lion store when Richard Bradley confronted them. According to reports,
Bradley started cussing and yelling at White as White walked to his car. When White
attempted to get into his car with his daughter, Bradley drew and swung what
appeared to be a knife. White drew his concealed firearm and shot White, ending the
altercation with a non-fatal wound to the stomach. Police later found a knife and
sheath on the scene.
Lessons
Cases like these bring up difficult questions. Self-defense encounters don’t
happen at convenient times and places; you may have family members or children
with you. How would you balance protecting your child while fending off an attacker
in a situation like this?
-- Tom McHale
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Weekend Knowledge Dump, 13 June 2025 A.D.
The Tactical Professor, Claude Werner
Rangemaster Newsletter, Tom Givens
American Handgunner Magazine
Tactical Science
International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors
Alien Gear blog
Shooting Classes Blog
"Cogito, ergo armatum sum." (I think, therefore armed am I.)
-- John Farnam
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------------------------------ Legal --------------------------------
“Is there no virtue among us? If there is not, we are without hope!
No form of government, existing nor theoretical, will keep us from harm.
To think that any government, in any form, will insure liberty and happiness
for a dishonorable population represents the height of self-deception.”
-- James Madison, 1788
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al., Petitioners
v.
Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Jun 05 2025
Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED
Kagan, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
Thomas, J., and Jackson, J., filed concurring opinions.
Opinion,
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Washington Post propaganda piece.
"U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejects Mexico's law suit against U.S. arms makers"
Hat tip to Stephen P. Wenger.
Excerpt: (because the article is behind a paywall)
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously blocked the Mexican government
from proceeding with an unusual lawsuit that sought to hold major U.S. firearms
manufacturers accountable for gun violence in that country. The justices reversed
an appeals court ruling, saying Mexico had failed to show a close enough connection
between guns made in the United States and drug cartel violence.
“Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege” that the gun manufacturers “aided
and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers,”
Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court.
The court’s decision comes at a time of strained relations between the two
countries as President Donald Trump has imposed a variety of tariffs on Mexican goods.
U.S. and Mexican officials are in agreement that Mexico’s drug cartels obtain most of
their firepower from the United States, as most American weapons seized in Mexico
originate in either Arizona or Texas. Strict gun laws across the southern border make
it extremely difficult for Mexican citizens to purchase a firearm. At least two-thirds
of the roughly 30,000 weapons seized in Mexico and sent for tracing each year were
sourced from the United States, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives. Just as Trump has taken aim at Mexican drug cartels and illegal
immigration, saying they contribute to crime in the United States, Mexico alleges that
U.S. firearms manufacturers know their guns are trafficked into Mexico. In its lawsuit,
Mexico said manufacturers intentionally target the Mexican market, including the
cartels, with design, marketing and distribution decisions. Among the guns mentioned
in court: a special-edition Colt handgun known as the Super El Jefe pistol and the
Emiliano Zapata 1911 pistol, engraved with the Mexican revolutionary’s
pronouncement: “It is better to die standing than to live on your knees.”
The firearms manufacturers, led by Smith & Wesson Brands, urged the
Supreme Court to apply broad protections from liability for the industry that
were passed by Congress two decades ago to protect Second Amendment gun rights.
The companies said the alleged connection to the harm in Mexico is too tenuous
and that Mexico had not shown the firearms industry is complicit with illicit sellers,
smugglers or cartels. A U.S. district judge in Massachusetts dismissed Mexico’s
lawsuit in 2022, finding that the companies were shielded from liability by a federal
law that broadly protects gunmakers from civil lawsuits filed by people injured by
their firearms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit reversed the judge’s
decision based on a narrow exception to the law, which allows suits against a
gunmaker that knowingly violates state or federal statutes. The appeals court said
Mexico had sufficiently alleged that the companies have been “aiding and abetting”
the illegal trafficking of guns by supplying dealers known to sell guns that cross
the border. A unanimous three-judge panel said it was “foreseeable that Mexican
drug cartels — armed with defendants’ weapons — would use those weapons to
commit violent crimes” that caused the Mexican government to incur costs.
---
Comment by Stephen P. Wenger --
If you detect some bias, note the source – WaPo. List members may recall that
Mexico chooses which guns to submit to F Troop for tracing, meaning that it's
unlikely that military weapons that obviously originated in other countries will be
submitted for tracing by F Troop as may also be the case for US-made firearms that
Mexican authorities know were purloined from their own military and police
armories. Color me skeptical that the number of guns purchased in Arizona and
Texas for illicit transport to Mexico are a significant factor in the profits of the large
corporations sued. And those Mexican-themed 1911 pistols – whether produced
directly by Colt or by smaller, specialty companies – are, as noted, special-editions
[low-production] that, if they cross the border, serve more as “barbecue guns” for
cartel leaders than as weapons of terror by their underlings. List members may also
recall that SIG was notably absent from the list of defendants, most likely because
the Mexican government buys true assault rifles from SIG for some of its troops.
Mexico may have better luck with a separate lawsuit against five firearm dealers
in Arizona.
-- Stephen P. Wenger
---
Just about all weapons used by the Mexican cartels are Sig Sauers.
They go from Sig Sauer in the U.S. to the Mexican government to the cartels.
It's a direct pipeline. They don't even bother taking the guns out of the shipping
crates. The cartel shipping and receiving agents are opening the original crates
from Sig Sauer.
The Mexican government is projecting; accusing the U.S. gun makers of doing
what they are doing.
Why was the U.S. Supreme Court decision unanimous? Why was the written
decision assigned to Justice Elena Kagan? Do you understand?
-- Jonathan D. Low
SSgt. U.S. Marine Corps, retired
MOS 0231 (Intelligence)
John Murphy gives advice.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other.
-- John Adams, October 11, 1798
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------------------------------ Instruction --------------------------------
"Remember,
the students who require the extra effort
are the ones who need us the most!"
-- John Farnam
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----- Instructors -----
“The student’s purpose is to expand their body of knowledge and social network.
The instructor’s purpose is to help the student achieve the student’s goals.”
-- Amy Schwartz
Colonel Robert Lindsey to his fellow trainers:
"We are not God's gift to our students.
Our students are God's gift to us."
“Qui docet, discet.” (Who teaches, learns.)
-- American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers
“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
-- Richard Henry Dana
"Every time I teach a class,
I discover I don't know something."
-- Clint Smith
Be careful what you teach.
Because your students will do in combat
whatever you have trained them to do,
no matter how ridiculous.
-- "Shooting in Self-Defense" by Sara Ahrens
"You must teach skill sustainment as part of training."
-- John Hearne
“The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other.
Without collaboration, our growth is limited to our own perspectives.”
-- Robert John Meehan
"You don't have to memorize formulae.
Because you can always derive them from first principles."
-- Sven Hartman
[So teach principles, not formulae.]
"Thinking is the hardest thing a person can do.
That's why so few people do it."
-- Henry Ford
"The limited time you spend with students may be the only training they ever receive!"
-- John Farnam
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----- Students -----
"It's better to be wrong than to be vague."
-- Freeman Dyson
[If you are wrong, the instructor can correct you. If you are vague, no one can help you.]
"Failure is an indication that someone tried to do something."
-- Ingersoll
"Growth is uncomfortable because you've never been there before."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"Keep in mind that this is some seriously next level material.
It is totally normal that the first time you see this stuff, you find
it confusing. You find it difficult to understand. So, confusion
should not discourage you. It does not represent any intellectual
failing on your part. Rather, keep in mind that it represents an
opportunity to get even smarter."
– Tim Roughgarden, Professor of Computer Science and other
stuff at Stanford University
"Try.
Try again.
Try once more.
Try differently.
Try again tomorrow.
Try and ask for help.
Try find someone who's done it.
Try to fix the problem.
Keep trying until you succeed."
-- Nicola Cavanis
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----- Andragogy -----
‟An instructor should not expect any learning to
take place the first time new information is presented.”
-- ‶Building Shooters″ by Dustin Salomon
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------------------------------ Gear --------------------------------
And the safe storage thereof.
“Mission drives the gear train.”
-- Pat Rogers
"Don’t Trust Yourself" by SLG
Otto ear protection.
$493.96 You get what you pay for.
If you're legally prohibited from possessing a firearm, then shooting pepper balls
makes sense. If you can legally carry a firearm, shooting pepper balls is wrong on
many levels.
Tactically, they are ineffective, worse than Tasers (which are also ineffective in
real world combat conditions, self-defense is combat; not to mention Task Overload
Confusion [take Chuck Haggard's class]).
Legally, a prosecutor can charge you with using a lethal weapon. Just because
they are advertised as being non-lethal doesn't mean anything. Remember, depending
on how it is used, a pillow can be a lethal weapon. Put it over a person's face and
hold until the person is dead.
Many documented cases of pepper spray being a deadly weapon. Use it in
committing a robbery and see how the prosecutor charges.
The wind won't blow the pepper balls back in your face initially. But what about
after they shatter on some target or hard surface?
The pepper balls don't have enough speed to cause injury? What if they hit an eye?
What if they get into the target's mouth? Choking death? What if they hit a child or
baby?
The point is they cause the same liability as a pistol without the benefit of
effectiveness.
"Six Questions to Ask Before You Buy a Gun" by Robyn Sandoval
"Are We in the Golden Age of Affordable Handguns?" by Tom McHale
Manufacturing technology is driving down the price of guns.
Now that the patents have expired, everyone is cloning the Glock.
Everyone has been cloning the M-16 / AR-15 / M-14 platform and they
keep getting better. And less expensive.
Grag A Gun
Company of Donald Trump Jr., Omeed Malik, and Marc Nemat (CEO).
The Wal Mart of gun stores.
$15 for shipping, no matter how much ammo you buy.
Smith and Wesson Shield Plus Optics Ready 30 Super Carry 3.1" Barrel
16-Round Thumb Safety for $300.
EvenG1 smart glasses.
Better than a teleprompter.
"Seeing Inside a Suppressed Gun Barrel! Outlier’s BackDraft Technology"
by Ballistic High-Speed
"Why You Should Consider A Rear Sight Forward Setup" by Langdon Tactical
"Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Bought my First Handgun."
"So You Just Bought a Gun - Now What?"
by Kirk Wachenheimer
"Don’t Do These Things with Your 1911!" by Massad Ayoob
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
"Carry Optics" by Dave Spaulding
I've had a lot of students get stabbed by staples when handling targets and backers.
So, for the last few years I've been using spray on adhesive. I find that 3M 90 to be
the best. Ya, it's more expensive. You get what you pay for in this world.
Magtech M193 Ammunition Recall:
Hat tip to Stephen P. Wenger.
Magtech is recalling three (3) lots of 5.56 x 45mm Ball M193
(M193 is the original 5.56mm NATO round with the 55 gr. FMJ bullet.)
centerfire ammunition.
Symbol: 556A
Lot Number: CBC546/24
Lot Number: CBC591/24
Lot Number: CBC601/24
WARNING: Magtech has determined that the above lots of 5.56 x 45mm
ammunition may contain incorrect powder charges. Ammunition with incorrect
powder charges may cause firearm damage, render it inoperable, and expose the
shooter and bystanders to a risk of serious personal injury or death.
DO NOT USE Magtech 5.56 x 45mm Ball M193 SYMBOL 556A WITH
LOT NUMBER CBC546/24, CBC591/24, or CBC601/24.
The ammunition Lot Number and Symbol are printed on the top flap of the
50-round box. To determine if your ammunition is subject to this notice,
check the Symbol and Lot Number. If the Symbol is 556A and the
Lot Number is CBC546/24, CBC591/24, or CBC601/24, immediately
discontinue use and contact Magtech at 763-235-4000. Magtech will arrange
for the return shipment of your ammunition, and upon receipt, will send you
replacement ammunition at no cost to you. This notice applies only to
Symbol 556A with Lot Number CBC546/24, CBC591/24, or CBC601/24.
Other Symbols or Lot Numbers are not subject to this recall. If you have any
questions concerning this 5.56x45mm centerfire ammunition recall or if you
are unsure whether you possess any ammunition covered by this recall,
please call 763-235-4000, or write to
Magtech
Attn: Recall
9100 Wyoming Ave N #515
Brooklyn Park, MN
or visit our website at www.magtechammunition.com.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
-- Stephen P. Wenger
“Your car is not a holster.”
-- Pat Rogers
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***** ***** ***** Cryptology ***** ***** *****
Cryptosystems are considered "arms" by federal law, ITAR,
International Traffic in Arms Regulations. That means cryptosystems are
protected by the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Never let the
government infringe on your right to keep and bear cryptosystems, to
include home made cryptosystems, to include sharing cryptosystems with
others.
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe,
and preserve order in the world as well as property.
Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of their use."
-- Thomas Paine
"How to Integrate with an AX? The Surprising Power of Planimeters –
Visually Explained!" by Mathologer
I am old enough to have actually used such devices in the real world.
"Never memorize anything. Rather, study it until it becomes obvious."
-- Norman Christ
"What Atheists Miss About Jesus - John Lennox" by Alex O'Connor
Hat tip to Sidney Ontai.
John Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, philosopher of science, and
Christian apologist known for his work defending Christianity through reason
and science. Born in 1943, he is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Oxford and a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science
at Green Templeton College. Lennox holds degrees in mathematics from
Cambridge (MA, PhD) and Oxford (DPhil), as well as a DSc for his work in
algebra and group theory.
[No, this article is not mistakenly in the Cryptology section. -- Jon Low]
"Computer science has nothing to do with computers or science."
-- Donald Knuth
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something,
and that this thing must be attained."
-- Marie Curie
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
-- Donald Knuth
"You don't need to memorize theorems,
because you can always derive them from first principles."
-- Sven Hartman
"All that we don't know is astonishing.
Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing."
-- Philip Roth
"Handbook of Applied Cryptography"
by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone
"Computer Security and the Internet:
Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin", Second Edition
by Paul C. van Oorschot
ISBN: 978-3-030-83410-4 (hardcopy), 978-3-030-83411-1 (eBook)
"An Introduction to Error Correcting Codes with Applications"
by Scott A. Vanstone , Paul C. Oorschot
Research and Publications (P. Van Oorschot)
Alfred J. Menezes
Scott A. Vanstone
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***** ***** ***** Signals Intelligence,
Ground Electronic Warfare,
Cyber Security,
(sometimes Air Electronic Warfare too) ***** ***** *****
"A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined,
but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain
a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them,
which would include their own government."
--George Washington
[Fighting the government means killing law enforcement officers.
Because, for their salary and pension, they will enforce unconstitutional laws,
including murdering citizens (Bryan Malinowski, Samuel Weaver, Vicki Weaver,
the 75 Branch Dividians [including 25 children] burned to death in their home by
government agents, and many many others). That's why you swore to uphold and
defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. In case you
didn't understand what you were swearing. The time will come, and you will
either honor your oath, or not. In such things, there is no in-between. -- Jon Low]
"DoD S-band needed for Golden Dome,
border defense threatened by spectrum auction plans: CSIS"
Selling off the low S-band "is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea,"
Tom Karako, director of the CSIS Missile Defense Project, told Breaking Defense today.
by Theresa Hitchens and Carley Welch
Never underestimate the stupidity of your U.S. Congress.
Do you Ham operators understand?
"Crypto-Gram, June 15, 2025" by Bruce Schneier
"Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937-1987)"
Notice what's missing. Just about everything. Very useful.
Breaking Defense has a weekly newsletter, "Networks & Digital Warfare" at
Crypto-Gram by Bruce Schneier
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‟If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it.
The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury.
Therefore what he must fear is his victim.”
-- Col. Jeff Cooper, "Principles of Personal Defense"
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***** ***** ***** Intelligence ***** ***** *****
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
-- Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution
Great success this morning! 13 June 2025 A.D.
The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/13/israel-attacks-iran-latest-news-nuclear-sites-war/
If you're going to name names, always cite open source. As the Gunner would say,
what's unclassified or classified at one level might be classified at a difference level
depending on the confidence of the information. Don't get jammed up because you
used the wrong adjective or made the statement of fact, as opposed to an allegation.
Global Recaps
1440
Daily Wire
"Israel strikes Iran's nuclear and military sites, and kills its top generals" by WRAL
‘No human hands’: NGA circulates AI-generated intel, director says
NGA puts a "template" on the products that "literally acknowledges . . .
what you are looking at has not been touched by human hands,”
said Director Frank Whitworth.
“It's important [for] combat commanders and the Secretary and the
President that they have that knowledge.”
by Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Never underestimate the stupidity of deep state bureaucrats.
They do not understand that Artificial Intelligence (in its present state)
hallucinates. And they do not understand what that means.
AI hallucinations are not a "mistake", not an "error", not "unintentional";
they are completely intentional. The resulting "intelligence" is correct
in the AI's world view. Which I hope is not your world view.
Restoring pride to our Navy:
The USS Harvey Milk, a John Lewis-class oiler, will be renamed.
It's an unusual move given that ships in the Navy are traditionally
not renamed. Nevertheless, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered
the ship, named after a homosexual predatory pedophile, be renamed
in the interest of restoring a "warrior ethos" to the U.S. military. As
recently as 2023, the USS Chancellorsville and USNS Maury were
renamed after Congress established a commission to eliminate names
with ties to the Confederacy. Other Lewis-class oilers named for civil
rights leaders and activists are also being eyed for renaming. The new
name of the USS Harvey Milk will be announced at a later time.
"Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship"
by Konstantin Toropin
Army smashes 2025 recruiting goal:
With still four months to go in the fiscal year, the U.S. Army has exceeded its
recruitment goal for the year, with 61,000 future soldiers having enlisted thus far.
That number is over 50% higher than this time last year. This comes following
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to eliminate woke policies within the
military, including the removal of gender dysphoric troops from the force, and to
restore a "warrior" culture. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll praised U.S. Army
recruiters for their hard work to meet the FY25 recruitment goal and thanked
Donald Trump and Hegseth "for their decisive leadership and support in
equipping, training and supporting these future soldiers as they face a world of
global uncertainty and complex threats."
"Recruitment surges in ‘warrior’ culture" by Ben Wolfgang
---
When I was a recruiter in the Marine Corps in 1981 - 1982, we got credit for
the recruit when he graduated from Recruit Training Depot in San Diego or
Parris Island. The Army recruiters got credit for the recruit when he signed the
enlistment document. What's wrong with that picture?
We had to recruit at least fixed number from each of 4 IQ ranges. Did not matter
what their high school class ranking was, nor what their grade point average was.
The Army recruiters, not so much.
We tried hard to get the Marine recruits to accept an MOS (military occupational
specialty) that would give them good job prospects when they got out in 4 to 6 years.
But all the recruits wanted infantry (as did my son). The Army recruiters had a hard
time getting any of their recruits to go into infantry, they all wanted the computer jobs.
(So the recruiters would do open contracts, letting the ASVAB scores and the needs
of the service determine the MOS, and they would all end up in infantry).
[The recruit needs a pretty high IQ to get into the infantry. There are a lot of jobs for
rocks. Infantry requires intelligence. You don't want a dumbass detonating a mortar
and killing the team.]
ON THIS DAY (June 4th) in 1781, a rider alerted the Patriots that the British were
coming, but his name wasn't Paul Revere. It was Jack Jouett, and he warned
Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson and others, including Patrick Henry and
Richard Henry Lee, to flee Charlottesville before the Redcoats arrived. The
Patriots had already fled Richmond to escape the traitor Benedict Arnold and
his marauding troops, but this alert saved them from calamity.
"Good habits and skill beat luck every time."
-- Sheriff Jim Wilson
The Dispatch
"StrategyPage"
"The Merge"
Breaking Defense
Intrigue
1440
29155
Global Recaps
Timber Sycamore
Ground News
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***** ***** ***** Religion and Politics ***** ***** *****
"I hate it when I'm trying to eat a salad and
it falls in the trash and I have to eat a taco instead."
-- Nicola Cavanis
The speaker is confusing the protesters with facts. Facts they cannot accept because
they are so entrenched in their world view.
"Israeli Muslim STUNS Protestors With Facts They Can't Answer"
by Aryeh Weinstein
"The plow horse: how marriage uses men" by Orion Taraban, Psy.D.
"Some men need marriage: be all that you can be" by Orion Taraban, Psy.D.
vertiginous = apt to change quickly; unstable:
"Fred Reed Discusses the War on Drugs" by Docent
Primary source,
"Drugs, a Misunderstood Industry" by Fred Reed
Unfortunately, Fred ended his blog postings on March 14, 2025.
Live within your means.
Just say no.
"Southern Poverty Law Center Wagging the FBI Dog" by Docent
---
The SPLC asked to interview me after I escorted a Goyim Defense League
(NAZI, National Socialist) thug off the Gordon Jewish Community Center
(of Nashville, TN) facility at gun point. I declined under the advice of my
attorney, Andrew Branca.
Speaking the truth is going to cost you.
Because the vast majority of persons on this planet deny truth,
because it is obnoxious to their world view, especially their political
view. Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei was shown the
instruments of torture to get him to shut up. He is famous and
known to us because of his papers that were published posthumously.
"Delusional women: understanding female entitlement" by Orion Taraban, Psy.D.
"Our Survey Shows Why the Recent Public Health Survey Claiming
18 million American Adults Present at Mass Shootings is So Ridiculous.
Number Shot Given by the Survey is Off by at least 71 Times!"
by The Crime Prevention Research Center
"Political Biases in the FBI’s Crime Data"
by The Crime Prevention Research Center
"Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns:
31 Cases During January 2025"
by The Crime Prevention Research Center
"Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns:
23 Cases During December 2024"
by The Crime Prevention Research Center
"Police Fitness Tests Have Reached A New Low" by Matt Walsh
The large urban centers, Democrat controlled cities, have implemented policies to
ensure the demise of their police departments. Who does this help? Who does this
hurt?
"Australia’s New Knife Ban Proves Gun Control Was Just the Beginning"
by Colion Noir
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
-- Mary Flannery O'Connor
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"History teaches us that history teaches us nothing." -- James Bachmann
"The Case of the One Cut Stop" by Bendigo Strange
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
In case you don't understand the difference between our political parties.
Dave Spaulding and Bri Coelho talk about stuff.
A spy movie out of Canada.
"Julianna V.: Secret Agent | Pascale Hutton | Full Movie (Intelligence)" by classictv
Do you understand?
"I did: why women are mean to men who like them" by Orion Taraban, Psy.D.
"No one can see your fucking potential. It is completely invisible to the outside
world."
"Who you are, where your talents lie, and what you can and cannot do."
"I DON'T play GAMES": understanding what this really means
by Orion Taraban, Psy.D
"Men's dating DOUBLE-BIND: how to flip the script"
by Orion Taraban, Psy.D
An unfortunate reality.
“You can’t truly call yourself ‘peaceful’ unless you are capable of great violence.
If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless.
Important distinction.”
-- Stef Starkgaryen
Semper Fidelis,
Jonathan D. Low
Email: Jon_Low@yahoo.com
Radio: KI4SDN
Nicola Cavanis
