Before we get started, we need to cover some common misunderstandings over terminology. The word “assault” for instance is often used in everyday language to mean a violent attack, such as the title of the movie “Assault on Precinct 13.” The word “violent” has similar connotations, such as a news program saying “a violent incident […]
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Best Magazine Article I’ve Ever Read
The magazine is RECOIL presents CONCEALMENT from CMGWEST recoilweb.com | Issue 31. The article is “Safe in the City” by Dave Merrill. I don’t know Dave, but the advice he gives is absolutely sound! Read it and absorb it! There is another good article by Jared Wihongi called “Close-Quarters Firearms Integration Tactics.” For law enforcement, […]
Intent Matters
A disturbing trend is present in a couple of governmental agencies. The National Safety Council (NSC) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) list firearm violence statistics divorced from intent. Furthermore, the CDC seems to be heading in the direction of combining firearm injuries and fatalities into a single category: firearm injuries (fatal […]
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Police Marksmanship: Violence Skill vs. Firearm Skill
In a previous post, I discussed the difference between firearm and violence skill. I want to expand on this topic here. The driver is the article “Hitting (or missing) the mark: An examination of police shooting accuracy in officer-involved shooting incidents,” for which the citation is at the bottom. This document costs money to download, […]
William English: 2021 National Firearm Survey, Updated Analysis
One of my biggest regrets in my book was stumbling across English’s research way too late. I was only able to mention it briefly. In fact it is worse than that, because I hadn’t heard of it, I had assumed that some of the Defensive Gun Use (DGU) statistics I referenced came from Kleck’s research […]
Negligent Discharges
Formally known as an accidental discharge, a negligent discharge describes a human failure resulting in a firearm discharging unexpectedly. I guess it was renamed when most people realized human failures rather than mechanical failures cause them. However, mechanical failures that result in a discharge, such as a safety physically failing, are probably best described by […]
Capacity and Reloading Speed versus Simplicity
My book and blog posts are for ordinary civilians who may not have any firearm experience or self-defense experience. As such, I prioritize things like safety over speed (see a previous post). In this post, I will prioritize simplicity over things like capacity and reloading speed. As such, I will recommend certain types of revolvers […]
The CDC’s Web Page – Fast Facts: Firearm Violence Prevention – A Critique
Risk Management In one of my first blog posts, I talked about risk. Any self-defense tactic or methodology you employ is a risk management decision. However, where we get our information around risk is often suspect. Many of the providers of this information have conflicts of interest. We must sort through a lot of information […]
Suicide and Firearms
I’m an existentialist philosopher, so I tend to have deep conversations with people. Unfortunately, a few of those people I had conversations with aren’t with us anymore. I didn’t know at the time of those conversations that, later in life, they would kill themselves. Suicide was never brought up. Instead, they seemed to struggle with […]