George Floyd, Update 6: Trial, Week 2
Why do I spend the time, blood, sweat and tears necessary to produce this scruffy little blog? Because I’m a …
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George Floyd, Update 5: Trial, Week 1
How, gentle readers, can one tell when a criminal trial is a racist, political persecution? How can one easily and …
Guns And Liberty, 2021: Part 8
All the articles in this series may be found by entering “guns and liberty 2021” into the SMM homepage search …
Self-Defense In A Reimagined World
How, when the police cannot or will not do their jobs, does the law of self-defense change?
“Mostly Peaceful Protestors” And Deadly Force
Recent lawlessness in American cities has sparked a dramatic run on gun stores. Even Democrats/Socialists/Communists, forced to deal with real …
Deadly Force: But He Was Unarmed!
We get the police we deserve. I’ve often written this, and I’ll address it again in some detail in the …
Guns and Liberty: Part 14, 2020
This is the final article in the series, which ties up loose ends. You may, gentle readers, wish to stick …
Guns And Liberty, A Rationale: Part 14, 2019
This is the final article in the series, which ties up loose ends.You may, gentle readers, wish to stick around …
Disparity Of Force: What’s Reasonable?
Are the guidelines for the use of force the same for everyone? As regular readers know, I’m currently updating a …
Guns And Liberty: A Rationale, Part 8, 2019
All the articles in this series may be found by entering “guns and liberty” into the SMM homepage search bar. …
The Freddie Gray Case, Update 56: Lessons Learned?
This, gentle readers, may be my final article in the Freddie Gray case, at least I hope it might be. …
Self-Defense: No Upside–UPDATED
It is a strange and dangerous time in the history of our constitutional—for now—republic. The most deranged of Democrat politicians are …
Bob Owens: Patriot And Friend
Instead of my usual Tuesday article on firearms and related issues, I have, today, a sad duty: writing about the …
Shootout In Oklahoma
In two decades of police work, I was fortunate in never having to actually shoot anyone. I came close on …
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