FASTER = Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response Day One Over the weekend of August 10-11 I attended FASTER Colorado’s Level Two training course, an advanced two-day course that builds on the basic three-day course I attended last year. The […]
This August, I was invited to attend the third Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response (FASTER) class of the summer as a blogger/journalist to write about the experience, which I did in my three-part series covering each day of the […]
Read about Days One and Two We reported back to the training facility at 9:00 am Sunday morning for our final day of training. After a brief introduction, it was back to the range for the handgun qualification part of […]
In Part One, I talk about the first day of the FASTER class I attended. Day Two of our Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response class started at noon the second day, which turned out to be unfortunate timing: we […]
“BLAM!” You’re sitting in a classroom with your eyes closed. “BLAM! You wonder what that loud noise was. At first you think it’s coming from Mr. Jones’ class down the hall, because he sometimes shows videos to his class. BLAM! […]
Mass shootings in any venue are unspeakable tragedies, but mass shootings that take place in schools are extra heinous and have a profound impact on each and every one of us. While we can disagree about the means and methodologies […]
I urge all freedom loving NRA voting members to cast their ballots for Sean Maloney for re-election to the National Rifle Association Board of Directors. You should have already received your ballot in the February issue of America’s First Freedom. I […]
Before any discussion of Orlando can take place, I must first express limitless sorrow for the people who lost their lives during the night of Saturday, June 11, 2016. May they rest in peace. May their loved ones find comfort […]
“Ammunition capacity. Handgun, shotgun and rifle capacity.” Much is made of “high capacity” firearms. Gun control advocates talk endlessly about how scary and needless they are in civilian life. How politicians, in the interest of public safety, need to limit […]
Just before noon on the Friday after Thanksgiving 2015 another possibly mentally ill individual went to a Planned Parenthood location in Colorado Springs, CO and shot several people, killing a police officer and two civilians before surrendering to police after […]