Monthly Archives: April 2009
A WEEKEND AMONG THE POLITE SOCIETY
The late, great gun guru Jeff Cooper popularized the Robert Heinlein quote “An armed society is a polite society.” Polite Society a few...
AMONG THE COPS AND THEIR INSTRUCTORS
I’m writing this in Wheeling, Illinois, two-thirds of the way through the six-day annual conference of ILEETA, the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers...
Columbine: Lessons Learned, Lessons Lost
A decade ago today, I was on the West Coast, teaching at the Firearms Academy of Seattle, when word reached us of the horror...
ANOTHER GIANT OF SHOOTING PASSES
While teaching in Arizona last week, I heard from friends at Gunsite Training Center that Jack Weaver had passed. The retired lawman was...
Thumbs Up For “60 Minutes,” Thumbs Down for “20/20”
It’s been an interesting weekend for electronic journalism related to firearms ownership. On Friday night, ABC’s “20/20” devoted its entire hour to one of...