Tactics
14-Year-Old Shot Playing Hide and Seek and 3 Similar Stories
It appears there is a growing trend that is incredibly disturbing. I’m not talking about some new Tick-Tock challenge where teens do something idiotic for approval from strangers. Over the last couple months, we’ve seen three irresponsible gun owners display criminal conduct with their firearm. Sadly, now we can add a fourth story. I’m usually…
Read MoreA Lot Can Happen in 9 Seconds—Armed Robbery Caught on Video
I think anyone who carries a firearm as a defensive tool has thought sometime about what they would do if this or that scenario to place. I think these “what if” scenarios are valuable mental exercises, provided we keep some things in mind. “What If” Exercises— First, it’s important that when we run our “what…
Read More2 Videos | When the Weapon is a Vehicle
I pulled two videos off the internet which are similar in the sense that they show someone using their vehicle as a weapon. There are many similar videos you could easily find, but I just included these two. I think these two videos have similarities, yet are different enough to illustrate the point from a…
Read MoreHomeowner Survives Home Invasion Attempt-What’s Your Home Security Plan?
A thoughtful, tactically sound approach to how, when and to whom you open the door to your home is important to a proper home defense strategy. We’ve seen a variety of incidents that document this principle in different ways. Below are links to a couple of these types of incidents where homeowners responded to an…
Read MoreI’m Shooting Anyone Who Trespasses on My Property
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read on social media, or heard people say something like: It’s my property, I’m shooting anyone who comes on my property uninvited. Not only is this mentality morally and ethically wrong, it also can lead to an unjustified use of deadly force. I’ve included two recent…
Read MoreNothing in This House is Worth Dying For
Part of a good home security strategy involves making your house lo uninviting to criminals. Posting signs that display surveillance or monitoring services like ADT, Brinks, Vivint, Lorex, etc. is not a bad idea, and may have a deterrence effect on some criminals loing for a soft target. But what about signs like the ones…
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