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Elderly woman uses firearm to defend against three home invaders

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Lost in the wake of the terrorist attack at an Orlando nightclub was yet another case of a person using a firearm to defend themselves here in Ohio. From WRGT (Fox Dayton) : Crime scene tape surrounds a home in the 1100 block of Oakridge Drive, police standing by while detectives question an elderly woman in inside. "When we arrived here we found a male who had been shot in the porch," said...

Are Cops Good Shooters?

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Tuesday, June 28, 2016

[Recently,] an article on the Bearing Arms website caused a bit of controversy. Check out HARSH REALITY: Police Are Not Highly Trained Firearms Experts . The article essentially describes how most police officers simply aren’t very good shooters or tacticians. A lot of folks who have never been shooting with cops would really be astonished at the relative lack of shooting skills most cops exhibit...

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Why brandishing, shooting to wound, and warning shots are BAD ideas

7:00am Tuesday, June 28, 2016

For every bit of good advice out there about self defense, there are at least 10 pieces of bad advice. Some of the very worst advice is about how to avoid the legal fallout of self defense by using a firearm in a non-lethal way, such as brandishing, shooting to wound rather than to kill, and firing one or more warning shots to scare off an attacker. On the surface, these ideas seem to make sense...

10 things you should NEVER do after a self defense shooting

3:00pm Monday, June 27, 2016

When it comes to armed self defense, it's usually not the shooting itself that trips you up legally. More often than not, it's what you do afterward that gets you in hot water. Here are 10 things you should avoid after using your gun in self defense. Never ... Call 911 in a panic. No matter how tough you are, your body and brain will be a mess after you pull the trigger and see a body lying on...

Your Tactical Training Scenario- Brutal Attack on Senior Citizen

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Monday, June 27, 2016

I was searching for an old email I had sent when I found a correspondence with Marcus Wynne from several years back. Marcus sent me the video embedded below. Watch the short video . It’s short, but very violent. Don’t watch it if you have a weak stomach for extreme brutality. An elderly woman is savagely beaten by a robber. The extreme level of violence that the robber uses makes this one an...

4 Ethical Lessons of Bearing Arms

3:00pm Friday, June 24, 2016

The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being... (Historian J.G.A. Pocock, describing the beliefs of the founders of the U.S.) There is nothing like having your finger on the trigger of a gun to reveal who you really are. Life or death in one twitch — ultimate decision, with the...

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Your Tactical Training Scenario…Robbed While Doing Yard Work

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Friday, June 24, 2016

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you were attacked while outside doing yardwork? Most people working in their yards aren’t expecting criminal violence. That makes them a good target for predatory criminals. A man in Florida was confronted by two teen-aged robbers as he was cutting some branches in his yard. The two boys pulled a gun and tried to take the man’s gold chain. He...

Things to consider when triggering a lockdown

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Thursday, June 23, 2016

Many of you who have been reading my work for a long time recognize that I have been vocally critical of the “lockdown” process in the past, especially in the case of school shootings. While I have been critical, I don’t have any problem with the idea of lockdown itself….I just think that poorly implemented lockdowns will cause more student deaths than other available response strategies in an...