I had to renew my license to carry this year. Texas issues such licenses for five years, and it didn’t dawn on me immediately that I’ve been carrying for five years. I decided to share some of my thoughts on concealed carry now that I have been doing it for a while. License not required…
Category: guns
Shotgun or AR for Home Defense?
When it comes to facing the many choices available in terms of home defense, decisions can be difficult. What follows is only my opinion, agree or disagree, I am just putting this out there because I was asked. Handgun or Long Gun I would recommend the long gun in almost every home defense situation. With…
Top 5 Impractical Guns (That I Want Anyway)
Today I am going to offer my Top Five Impractical Guns that I want anyway. The guns on this list are guns that have some sort of appeal to me, in spite of being impractical for one reason or another. Here is my list: 5. The Kentucky Long Rifle This is the gun that won…
2A: How to Help
I typically focus only on problems under my direct influence. There are an eff ton of issues going on right now that would stress me beyond the ability of my BP meds to keep me among the living. So, I place my attention on things I can control, makes my life easier. However, I have…
Top 3 Concealed Carry 1st Gun Mistakes
Based in part from the questions I get from my readers, and in part from conversations with people who have told me of their own mistakes, as well as those I made on the way here, I have decided to put together my list of the top three 1st carry gun mistakes people make. As…
An Open Letter to the Anti Gun Folks
To those who are against gun ownership, In the self-defense industry, we speak of an action called othering. This is an action, deliberate or otherwise, where we separate our humanity from that of someone who is different from us. We classify ourselves as the ins, and those other people are the outs. And never the…
The Real Issues
I think it is cute how when you try to point and get your dog to look at something, they look at your finger. We tend to project our ideas and intent so well that we assume that the dog knows we mean Hey, look over there. When a dog does it, it is very cute…
Parkland Florida Thoughts
Once again an armed attack on a school has brought out the worst on both sides of the gun debate. Lives were lost, and people were still learning what had happened and who the victims were when the talking heads start prattling on about gun control. I have been asked, and here are my somewhat…
Vegas: Conspiracies, Doubts, and Lies
After a good number of questions coming in following my thoughts on the attack in Las Vegas with an up-front lean toward accepting one or another of the many conspiracy “theories”, I have opted to put some thoughts together on this, and hopefully in some small way get people focused back on the truth instead…
A Lie Agreed Upon
In the aftermath of a tragedy, such as the horrible attack in Las Vegas, we seem to all agree upon a lie. Our politicians and our media are clearly disconnected from the facts of our everyday lives. They do not see what is in plain sight of everyone willing to open their eyes and see….
Wallace Smedley 