“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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
In the early morning hours of September, 11, 2009, David A. Flores broke into the Griffith, IN, home of sisters Kristen Kennedy (25) and Jennifer Evans (28.) Flores raped Kristen, and then stabbed both to death with a kitchen knife. He placed their bodies in a bathroom, set it on fire, shut the bathroom door [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wVyL8SPUwk Fortress Instructor Chuck Skaggs brings this to out attention - we're glad she escaped, but it could have ended much worse. Read full article here Staff Instructor Rick Colliver comments: 1) Pull up close enough to the ATM that a human can't squeeze between the machine and your window. 2) If [...]
Shot Show 2015 Frank with Leah Mattix (center) of the Unicorn Leah Youtube channel. Leah is an old friend who once was our supplier of airsoft gear for force-on-force training. She's moved from that job to hosting her Youtube channel and traveling the country promoting the airsoft sport. Along the way she decided to [...]
