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They Are Not You: Drug Abuse Spirals Into Murder
Today’s case involves a combination of extraordinary risk factors leading to an almost incomprehensible level of violence on the way to a sad and entirely predictable outcome. The predictability arises from the victim’s on-again/off-again struggle with substance abuse, a chronic relapsing condition that stresses family systems to the breaking point as parents and others desperately
They Are Not You: The Mindset of Hate
Undertake a bit of a thought exercise with me if you will, one that will point out viscerally some of the differences between ourselves and the most dangerous of Violent Criminal Actors. Imagine the level of hatred required to shoot someone in the face, on sight; not figuratively, but actually to shove the muzzle of your pistol into contact with the flesh of another human’s jawline, for example, and press the trigger.
PDN Training Talk: September 9, 2018
Training Talk with Grant Cunningham is the show to watch to get reliable and responsible self defense information! This week, Grant talks with PDN Contributor Caleb Causey of Lone Star Medics about emergency medical response training for the whole family! Training Talk is the webcast that talks about you: about your life and how to
They Are Not You: Road Rage
Many violent events are challenging to hear about, discuss, and learn from because the details are so distressing. This is especially true in cases involving the murder of a child, and in cases where violence is sudden and seemingly inexplicable as it erupts into the lives of ordinary families doing ordinary things in ordinary ways.
They Are Not You: Preconceptions as Deadly Misconceptions
When asked, independent of any other information, to form a mental image of a dangerous criminal offender, we tend to fall back on a combination of half-remembered images from the past, examples in media and, to a very large degree, internally maintained preconceptions. But how closely do our personal impressions hew to the truth of
Clearwater “Stand Your Ground” Case… a lawyer’s thoughts.
The article addresses the fact that many people tend to ignore the difference between what is legal and what is best. If you hang your Tactical Hat on an overly simplified understanding of “Stand your Ground”, you could not only find yourself in legal jeopardy, you might kill someone that you didn’t need to with a false confidence about being “right”.
