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The Lanza Test
Since the horrific murders in Newtown, CT, last week, America has been gripped by a near-hysterical public debate about what to do to prevent such a thing from happening again. Not surprisingly, the usual gun-hating politicians are crying out for more stringent gun control laws, as if Connecticut’s existing and very stringent gun laws were…
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Primer: The Stark Realities of Armed Self-Defense
This material is likely Old Hat to most of the members here at TacAnat.com. But over the past year or so I’ve noticed an encroaching mentality on numerous internet forums which I can only describe as willful stupidity about the realities of the use of deadly force. People are using terms like "castle doctrine" and…
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Untimely Deaths
On August 1, 2012,Reagan County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Mitchell died under my care. He had been shot with a rifle by a chronic meth-head here in my little West Texas town about 90 minutes before I finally gave him up to the Lord and admitted there was nothing more I can do. I, and my entire trauma…