Anyone who has followed my writings will remember that I spend a lot of time talking about training. Well, I’m a trainer, so, that would stand to reason. Just so you won’t be disappointed, I’ll talk about training this time too. Constitutional Carry has hit the nation in a big way, much to the chagrin […]
Author: Dan Lanotte
Report 48: Can You Stop A Shooter?
There has been a great deal of discussion, pro and con, about the Second Amendment over the past several months. Three mass shootings, that I can think of off the top of my head, has a lot of people talking about taking our guns away and a lot of people saying “come and get ‘em.” […]
Report 47: A Lament for the America I Knew
My wife, Rocky, and I were eating at a local fast food restaurant when she mentioned an older gentleman coming in, presumably with his grandson’s family. He was wearing a WWII veteran’s cap with a lot of ribbons sewed on it. His legs were a bit unsteady but he didn’t seem to need help, no […]
Report 45: A Discussion of Our American Rights
Many countries enumerate the rights of citizens in their founding documents. How stringently they allow those rights is another matter. States like the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have a terrible record as do other countries, but that is not the focus of this report. The rights as enumerated in the Constitution are accorded to […]
Report 44 Active Shooter Response
I have just finished reading the NRA’s response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSDHS) shooting report. As a refresher, 17 students and staff were murdered at the school on 14 Feb. 2018. The report concentrates on the actions of law enforcement and inactions of the school. I will touch briefly on the findings […]
Report 43; All Women Classes??
For some time now, there has been a lively conversation in the fire arms training industry about having all women classes. There is a school of thought that women should be integrated into classes with men, that there is no difference in the learning process between the two. Another school of thought says that there […]
The Castle Doctrine
I am going to preface this discussion by reminding you that I am not an attorney. What you see in this posting is my view of the law from a layman’s point of view. Let’s have a short discussion about the Castle Doctrine. How many of you know what the Castle Doctrine is? Do you […]
Report 41 The Character of Bad Guys
On 3 August 2018, the sheriff’s office of Taos County, New Mexico executed a warrant on a compound in that county to try to find the 3-year old son of the man running the compound, AG Wahhaj. The boy’s father, Siraj Wahhaj is the son of Siraj Wahhaj, the head of the Masjid At-Taqwa mosque […]
Report 40 A Continuing Discussion on An Attitude of Awareness
This is a continuation of a discussion I started way back on 20 January 2015. You can read that original post here. Not a day goes by that you fail to see a news article about a store getting robbed, someone getting shot, a rape, or a mugging. No one will disagree that there are […]
Report 39a How Do We Solve the Illegal Immigration Problem
A reader of these posts asked, rightly, “Do you have any practical suggestions as to how to combat this growing clear and present danger?” This was in response to Report 39. I hate it when someone actually requires me to think and back up my premise. Well, I’m up to the challenge. The current illegal […]