Plan your personal security like a vacation

In Monday’s article about self defense tips I mentioned that the path to personal security, home defense and family protection doesn’t come from digesting little soundbites or snippets of information. Those sorts of things might make you feel good or give you a temporary (and very illusory) sense of security, but in reality they don’t […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On July 1, 2016

Self defense is more than just reading some “safety tips”. Here’s why.

Every morning I get up, make a cup of tea, and sit down to do my morning reading. One of the things that comes across my desk (well, my iPad screen anyhow) is a Google Alerts search for the term “self defense”. I get quite a few news stories in that feed; the most common […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On June 27, 2016

Someone is in your home. Can you shoot him? Should you?

The other day my UPS route driver stopped by (thank you, Amazon Prime!) and chatted for a few minutes. He had questions for me about defensive shooting during a home break in, specifically when he could and could not legally shoot a person breaking into his home while he was there and whether he could […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On March 21, 2016

Choosing the ‘pool gun’ for your family and home defense: what’s best?

If you keep a firearm for home defense (more specifically, defense of yourself and others while in your home — we don’t use lethal force to defend mere property), it’s entirely possible that there may be more than one person who is authorized, capable of or likely to need to use it. You may have a […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On February 26, 2016

Incident Analysis: Warning shots are a bad idea, especially when the run you out of ammunition.

Over at The Firearm Blog we read the story of one Bart Bryson. In investigating what appeared to be a burglary in progress he made a number of really bad decisions that could have left him very vulnerable. The short version of the story: he pulled up to an unoccupied home that he owns and spotted […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On February 15, 2016

Protecting others is a noble act. It’s also a dangerous one.

Today’s blog post was suggested by a reader. I wrote a piece a while back about the dangers of intervening in an active incident, and he asked if I could extend my comments to intervention in a chronic incident: one which has been going on for some time. Such situations do exist, and they can be very […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On February 12, 2016

Do you carry religiously? You may not be as safe as you believe.

I know that most of the people reading this blog are here to learn about defensive shooting, concealed carry, firearms training, and related topics. The rest are interested in things like rifles, revolvers, reloading, and other technical issues. In other words, regardless of the group into which you fit, if you’re reading this you’re probably […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On January 18, 2016

Halloween Safety Tips: how to keep your kids happy and healthy at the same time!

Halloween is upon us again! This is the time of year when the weather here in Oregon turns cold and rainy, but despite that kids still get out and trick-or-treat while their parents (or older siblings) go to festive Halloween parties. Everyone faces higher risks simply due to the activity level, but there are ways […]

Posted by Grant Cunningham
On October 30, 2015

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