Veterans Treatment Courts: Ensuring Justice is Served While Vets Get The Help They Need by Chad H. Lennon, Esq. The veteran population in the United States continues to grow each year. Soon the country will have service members retiring who have known only wartime service. In an era that is about to see 20 consecutive years of war, we have also seen a time in the increase … [Read more...]
Don’t Tell Me How To Do My Job: A Law Enforcement Officer’s Perspective
Don’t Tell Me How To Do My Job: A Law Enforcement Officer's Perspective by Nick Perna I don’t know anything about cars. When something goes wrong with mine or it needs service I take it to a mechanic. Like most people, when I get the oil changed and the service technician comes out and asks me if I want a new air filter for my flux capacitor I flip a coin in my head and … [Read more...]
Peterson is a Coward, Not a Criminal.
I remember the headlines of many of the websites and papers after they discovered a resource office, Scot Peterson, stayed outside while 17 people were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on a February morning in 2018. Last week, Scot Peterson was charged with multiple counts of child neglect. Is Peterson a coward? Yes. Should he ever be a police officer again? … [Read more...]
Tactical Regret
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once”. William Shakespeare I’ve had a lot of interesting jobs in the tactical world. The common denominators for these gigs were the fact that they were hard, dangerous and the pay sucked. So, when a guy offered me $30 an hour to babysit some rich dude who wanted a hired gun in … [Read more...]
Alarm Fatigue: Correlative Applications to Gun-Related Self Defense
Alarm Fatigue: Correlative Applications to Gun-Related Self Defense by Kjell Rosenberg MD, Rangemaster and NRA Instructor People often ask me if doing anesthesia is dangerous. The answer is, “yes, but also very safe.” How are both of those things true? Because we know the dangers are there and we set monitors up to watch our patients very closely. Our constant vigilance … [Read more...]
Identity Theft – Americans Overwhelmingly Concerned About Credit Card Fraud
Identity Theft - Americans Overwhelmingly Concerned About Credit Card Fraud by: Special Guest Research conducted recently by the Unisys Corporation reveals that identity theft when it comes to credit card scams is Americans' number one issue. Can identity theft be scarier than terrorism? When people ask me, "How do I protect myself from credit card scams?" I tell … [Read more...]
I’m Your Huckleberry: Felon Arrested with Black Powder Revolver Raises Questions
Written by Kevin Wilson On March 11, 2019, a man in Fresno, California was pulled over at a routine traffic stop. The driver, a 19 year old gang member with apparent past felonies, admitted to the officers that he had a .44 Magnum under the seat, and was promptly arrested and booked for being a felon in possession of a firearm. There's just one little problem with this … [Read more...]
Search Warrants: The Fruit of The Poisonous Tree
Search Warrants: The Fruit of The Poisonous Tree by Nick Perna There has been much said, written and posted recently about the Nunes letter that made allegations regarding the veracity and integrity of the FISA warrants that launched the Russian Collusion investigation. What’s come into question is the credibility of the Fusion GPS report that provided at least some of the … [Read more...]
“Not My Tribe:” Coast Guard Lieutenant Arrested For Democrat “Kill List”
"Not My Tribe:" Coast Guard Lieutenant Arrested For Democrat "Kill List" by Scott Faith "Coast Guard officer wanted to kill Democrats, TV hosts," the NBC headline screamed. Well, that's unusual; you don't normally see a lot of Coastie officers getting hemmed up for stuff like this. And after the recent Covington kerfuffle and the ongoing dumpster fire of the Jussie … [Read more...]
Your “Tactical Tampon” is Useless for Life-Threatening Hemorrhage
Your "Tactical Tampon" is Useless for Life-Threatening Hemorrhage by Andrew Fisher The myth that tampons can quell life-threatening hemorrhage just won’t die. It seems that every other week a post on social media touts the amazing effects of tampons as a life-saving intervention (LSI). After all, there are anecdotes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the veteran … [Read more...]
