#NegativeOutcome After a Defensive Gun Use, don’t have your gun in hand when the POlice arrive. [After the man called 911 saying he had killed someone,] The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office ar…| tacticalprofessor
This is an old post of mine on Facebook from 2013. It was reposted today by my friends Phil Wong and Rob Reed. My thanks to them for resurrecting it. The post follows: The concept of livefire pressure testing one’s shooting skills came up on a forum. This was my contribution. My favorite drill is […]| tacticalprofessor
My latest Shooting Illustrated article is posted. https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/close-quarters-handgun-training/ The topic is the ‘Close Quarters Handgun’ class I attended last month. It was taught by Chuck Haggard of Agile Training https://agiletactical.com/ and hosted by The Complete Combatant https://www.thecompletecombatant.com/. Fair disclaimers up front: Chuck, Shelley, and Brian are all dear friends of mine and I didn’t pay […]| tacticalprofessor
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/man-dead-another-critical-condition-after-shooting-atlanta-park/S5TK53I65ZDJVIJYXDVXXSPSE4/ A précis of the incident: Sad that carrying a pistol has become a necessity even at a pleasant fellowship event but I’m glad the Brothers had theirs. It could have been much worse. There are a lot of emboldened wackos wandering around. The report indicated that the intruder had been walking down the sidewalk […]| tacticalprofessor
Visualization is a powerful tool for survival. Here are some real life incidents from the Official NRA Journals as food for thought. In Chicago, a 66-year-old man was walking his dog around 6 a.m. on April 8 when he saw two men tapping something on the glass of a vehicle. He later told reporters that […]| tacticalprofessor
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My second post in the series was called, prosaically enough, “How the media misleads on police violence Part 2,” and it regarded how the issue of people being killed by police is much greater than the news media leads us to believe, and how the issue of police being killed by people has been inflated by its national news media coverage.| Fatal Encounters
My last post was called “How the media misleads on police violence Part 1,” and it regarded ways the media (and government) effectively prevent people of this country from having a clear idea about police violence. Its summary statement was, “the first way the mainstream news media fails to inform the public about the true scope of deadly police violence is that they underestimate deaths by 18 percent, and they fragment the data so a normal person can’t piece it together.”| Fatal Encounters
The United States government does not keep accurate records about law enforcement-related deaths.| Fatal Encounters