Being a college professor since 1988, I am highly aware of the vulnerability of college students — particularly females — to criminal attacks. For a number of years, I taught women’s self-defense…

Just last week here in Florida, we had yet another case of a legally armed “Good Samaritan” coming to the aid of a citizen. This latest in a series of such incidents involved an apparent theft at an…

Look at the video of the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting. Don’t look at the shooter. Look at the people in the background who are stunned, standing frozen while the shooter is firing. When they do move, they do not move with purpose and they do not head to real cover.

I realize that crime is happening everywhere, all the time, but when the offense occurs close to home, you tend to pay a little more attention. Most times, it gets people thinking. Sometimes it opens…

At the USCCA, many of us are long-time firearms and carry instructors ourselves, so we are always curious about what sort of instruction is being provided “out there” in the community. And sometimes,…

Woman Shoots Financé When an early morning argument turned violent and her fiancé began to beat her, an Arlington woman feared for her life. That’s when she took up a pistol kept for defense and shot…

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young must have been thinking of us in “Teach Your Children.” The dreamy, insistent lyrics are instructive in a melancholic sort of way: You, who are on the road must have a…

This is not a simple topic to write about, but I felt like I had to do it. Something needed to be said … for the memory of a friend and for the hope of others. A few weeks ago, my husband and I…

‘TIS JUST DAYS before Christmas and the cash registers ring, as all on the “nice” list continue to sing, “More ammo, more targets, and patches and swabs; more night sights and flashlights with…

“I know I’m being selfish, but why did he have to go help?” -Lisa Benavides Everyone wants to help, to leave the world “a better place.” But the world is the world and perhaps human nature, generally…

As you are reading this, the latest piece of Hollywood anti-Second Amendment propaganda masquerading as “entertainment” is just now hitting the theaters. I’m talking about the film Miss Sloane, which…

The headline said it all: Cops Shot in 4 Cities in 24 Hours, 2 Shootings Called “Targeted” Last Sunday morning, a San Antonio detective was writing out a traffic ticket for a motorist he had stopped,…