For the past 10 days I have been working as the official stringer at a $25,000 ITF Pro Circuit Futures tournament at the Wake Forest Tennis Center in Winston-Salem. A week ago Friday I had one of my busiest days at the tournament, stringing 22 rackets. Which isn’t overwhelming for a tournament, except that I … Continue reading
Since I cannot even keep up with the work I have to do, I don’t often venture into the comments section of the blogs I read. But I woke up yesterday morning to a headline on The Truth About Guns that caught my eye: “Shooting at Gay Pride Parade Not Sexual Orientation Related.” The story … Continue reading
Sociologist Jennifer Dawn Carlson begins a very interesting essay on the complexity of women’s involvement in gun culture recounting her first day carrying a concealed handgun in public: I remember looking at myself in the mirror that first morning, the familiar feminine ritual of checking my looks before heading out for the day disrupted by … Continue reading
As I was writing up my (promised, forthcoming!) analysis of a recent article on nonfatal gunshot injuries that was treated dismissively on the Gun Free Zone blog, Miguel published a follow-up, Again (and final) on the Yale study. I could see that he had tired of discussing the issue on his blog, so decided to … Continue reading
Originally posted on tacticalprofessor:
The house alarm sounded and the wife shot her husband through a closed bedroom door thinking he was an intruder, according to Fayetteville police. http://whnt.com/2015/01/09/soldier-shot-while-trying-to-surprise-wife-with-breakfast/ Obviously, that was a ‘negative outcome.’ Therein lays the problem with simply having a gun without doing any scenario training with it. My research has brought…
“While They Prey, We Pray: The Failure of Lockdown to Protect Students and Academic Personnel,” by Virginia Little and Anthony Vander Horst of Kent State University. The main point of this paper was that lockdown has never been recommended by any security authority and yet is the accepted policy and practice in many schools. Lockdown … Continue reading
