Sam Duffy

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Reality Beats Meme

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The gun prohibitionists like to paint Federally-licensed firearms dealers as soulless death merchants who wallow in blood to fill their pockets. Once again, we see...

Part 6: An Explanation

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From the beginning of this blog, I’ve made one entry at a time.  A confluence of scheduling circumstances in coming days demands that if...

Part 5: The PERF-etrators

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When I first saw the Police Executive Research Forum’s “30 Guiding Principles” in their “Use of Force: Taking Policing to a Higher Standard,” I...

Part 4: PERFidy?

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Some of PERF’s recommended policies are downright dangerous to police, and to the law-abiding citizens they are sworn to protect. Consider Policy 8: “Shooting...

Part 3: PERF – Too Fuzzy for the Fuzz

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If we’re going to describe the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the PERF guidelines, since “Ugly” is the most subjective of those...