Pretty Loaded Podcast
Frank was a recent guest on the Pretty Loaded Podcast with host Beth Warford. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPk2uE4LA1o&feature=youtu.be Visit the Pretty Loaded Safety Training website at prettyloaded.org
Attack Victory!
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away." – Philip K. Dick A student informed me yesterday of a female relative who was recently accosted in her dorm room at mid-western college. Her campus housing facility has had key card and door lock issues which were reported by the [...]
Dene Adams Leggings
Product review: Dene Adams Classic Concealed Carry Tactical Leggings Most firearm related products are designed for a specific demographic end user, large to mid-framed males who are right handed! Women's needs with firearms, and especially daily carry, are at best an industry afterthought. I've made it a personal mission to remedy the neglect, however, it's [...]
Excuses? – By Tricia Ellison
“You can’t control the outcome, but you are 100% in control of the effort. If you don't like the outcome, change your effort" - Larry Elder A few months ago my husband and I decided to start having a date night once a week. 😊 We wrote a list of all the fun things we'd [...]
Gender-less Law?
"The transgenders winning the track meet in Connecticut last week are not “brave.” That was a mugging. Two boys figuratively beating up a group of girls and stealing from them. The East Germans used to pull the same stunt at the Olympics.” – Anonymous comment regarding THIS news story Recently I was made aware [...]
No Justice
The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual - James St. James On September 27th, 2015, I posted an opinion piece titled ‘No Second Chances’, offering my commentary on a then recent attack of a Lansing, IL, woman by a scripture-like example of pure evil incarnate. This week, a little over [...]
Never Underestimate the Power and Determination of a Woman!
[Today we have the pleasure of a post from Fortress Instructor Tricia Ellison. Tricia regularly instructs women in the art of daily carry, and is known to not suffer fools. - Frank] Recently, CNN decided to have their Senior Law Enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes, some might call him an “expert,” comment on how he thought [...]
Progressive Phalli-cies
“Youth is wasted on the young.” - George Bernard Shaw In August a student group calling itself "Cocks Not Glocks" wafted on to the University of Texas campus to protest legislation allowing those with a valid carry permits to be armed on University property. They claimed to be fighting "absurdity with absurdity", but as is so [...]
Catherine Genovese
“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.” - Jeannette Walls On March 13, 1964, 28 year-old Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was attacked and murdered in her Kew Gardens, NY, neighborhood by Winston Moseley. Moseley was arrested 6-days [...]
No Second Chances
“The only thing constant in life is change.” - François de la Rochefoucauld As much as we all try to keep life as we like, factors outside of our control always intervene. On Friday, Sept 8th, such a “factor” entered the life of a 53 year-old woman from Lansing, IL, when she arrived home [...]