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Reality Check: Can Armed Citizens Stop Mass Shootings?

7:00am Thursday, December 03, 2015

Have you heard the adage "It takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun"? Is that true when it comes to mass shootings? What follows is a Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.

Your Tactical Training Scenario- Violent Purse Snatching

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Watch the video. It’s only a minute long. The first 55 seconds show the purse snatcher’s identification of the victim, approach, and escape. After second 55 the view changes and you see the attack. Ladies, the question for you is: “Have you trained to defeat this level of violence?” The attacker was not big, nor skilled. He was fast and extremely violent. Notice how quickly he appeared and...

Ohio CHL-holder credited with stopping robber's escape

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, December 02, 2015

WKEF, Dayton's ABC affiliate, is reporting that a customer with an Ohio concealed handgun detained a man who robbed a local restaurant. From the article : Walter Schwytzer III went to [Tipp of the Town] restaurant and allegedly handed the hostess a note. "To my knowledge it just said ‘I have a gun, give me your money,'" said [restaurant owner Paul] Loubier. He got the money and took off. "My...

20 Years and Millions of “Assault Weapons” and “Large” Magazines Ago...

3:00pm Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Twenty years ago, not long after Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) federal “assault weapon” and “large” magazine “ban” took effect, CBS 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl faced a dilemma. To help Feinstein make her case for a new ban that would cover more types of guns and more magazines, CBS would have to do something that doesn’t come naturally to gun control supporters. It would have to tell...

Lessons from the UC Merced Stabbing Incident

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Tuesday, December 01, 2015

[Recently], a student at The University of California at Merced entered a classroom and began stabbing another student. A construction worker who was working nearby heard the commotion and interrupted the attack by kicking the knife wielding attacker. The construction worker was stabbed himself before the suspect fled. While fleeing, the student stabbed two more people in the stairwell of the...

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Looking Back at the Fort Hood Shooting

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Monday, November 30, 2015

I was doing some active killer research and came across this excellent recap of all of the events that took place in the (first) Ft. Hood shooting six years ago this month. Read this extremely detailed account of the Ft. Hood activer shooter (terrorist) incident. Whether you are a cop, soldier, or citizen, think about how you would respond in an event like this. Some very interesting passages: “...

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Public university professor labels NRA a "murderous terrorist organization" & "threat to national security"

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, November 30, 2015

[UPDATE: A follow-up article is available here .] A public records request has revealed that Dr. James E. Evans, a professor of geology at the Bowling Green State University (BGSU), considers the National Rifle Association (NRA), which is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, to be "a murderous terrorist organization that is a threat to national security." The claim came in...

Obama, 7-time Gun Salesman of the Year, Looking To Retire Undefeated

by Jim Shepherd

3:00pm Friday, November 27, 2015

Lately, President Obama has done more smack talking about gun owners than Rhonda Rousey before Saturday night's title, um, defense. Unfortunately, our peerless leader doesn't have to defend his title against anything more intimidating than a Washington media corps that's more than demonstrated an ability to hit the canvas faster than any pug brought in to "fight" a contender. At a time when I'd...