Feb
12
2020
Link to original article here: https://www.stayingalive.info/htdocs/newsletter/htdocs/ChrisCorner/2020-01-11-privateer.htm
So Texas has provided another case of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun who was shooting up a church. This shooting happened during a Sunday service on December...
Jul
03
2019
The Texas Concealed Handgun Association annual meeting in Kerrville at the end of March included one unusual presentation entitled Understanding The Threat. John Guandolo, a former U.S. Marine Corp officer and former FBI agent made a compelling case that...
Jul
03
2019
Lessons learned from watching 18,000 gunfights. That was the eye-catching title of John Correia’s presentation at the Texas Concealed Handgun Association Annual Meeting in Kerrville during the last weekend of March.
No, he hasn’t been present at 18,000 gunfights but...
Nov
05
2018
Part II
Last month I discussed some aspects of Situational Awareness, mostly from people who knew much more about it than I did. In particular, I owe much to Ed Lovette who has written about this aspect of staying safe...
Sep
11
2018
What is Situational Awareness?What is Situational Awareness?
Ed Lovette who taught situational awareness as a CIA officer defines it as a state of general alertness which allows you to take the element of surprise away from a threat to your...
Aug
11
2018
Those of us who carry handguns on a daily basis need to remember that, no matter what our training, getting involved in a gunfight involves risk and does not always end well. This story is taken from my book,...
May
18
2018
Some firearms instructors teach people to step to one side while drawing their guns. Others teach that the first shot or two should be from a standing still position because the attacker is likely to miss. I wanted to...
Feb
23
2018
Valentine’s Day is almost upon us and many of us are thinking about giving something to our spouses or, to be politically correct, our significant others – okay I don’t like it either – to your boyfriend, girlfriend, son,...
Feb
08
2018
The mass shooting by two students at Columbine High School in 1999 was a game changer in terms of law enforcement response. But according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s report on the incident, it could have been much, much...
Oct
20
2017
In the past couple of months, I have had shooting students point guns at me while on the range. In both cases the students were retired military and should have known better. However just because someone has served in...
