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It's never a good day when someone breaks into your home at 5:15 in the morning.  It's even less of a good day when you're a single woman and the man breaking in is an ex-boyfriend intent on beating you to a pulp.  After all, if he was delivering flowers,…

Maintain your situation awareness at all times. There are a host of pre-violence behavioral indicators, and pro-incident indicators.  Come out to the Critical Threat Management Force-on-Force class to learn the subtle nuances in body language that often precede an attack. Sometimes you don't need training or education outside of everyday…

by John Boch Robert Rees, a former Guns Save Life member and radio talk show host at Cities 92.9FM in Bloomington moved to Iowa a little over two years ago.  We were sorry to see him go as he was a quite a fan of Guns Save Life and the…

    We bring you two stories in the past week from Springfield, IL, just four days apart, involving armed homeowners.  Each have lessons to be learned. The first story had a good ending for the homeowner, a Marine veteran.  The other had a not-so-good ending for a former US…

  By A Guns Save Life Member, MD. I'm an Illinois concealed carry permit holder. I carry every day.  Well, most of the time. I am also a physician. I work in a hospital - a statutory "gun free" zone in Illinois. I can't bring my gun to work. I…

Rut row!  The Ferguson Effect is in full swing in Chicago, with 57 homicides this past month.  It stands as the deadliest January in at least 16 years, and perhaps ever. 301 people have been shot. This is what happens when police contacts in the first weeks of the new…

There was lots of crying, but it was tears of joy for the loved ones of a female cash store employee taken hostage in Irving, Texas after an armed robbery of the store went bad. The thug, with a gun to the head of the employee, threatened to kill the…

The Wounded Warrior Project has found itself in the news again as they are suing two injured veterans who are former employees. The organization, which purports to help injured veterans but in reality spends just 13.5% of monies collected on grants to help injured veterans as of their 2014 IRS…

Everytown for Gun Control is all bent out of shape over their bought-and-paid for Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced his support for a bill that would turn the State of Virginia into a "Universal Reciprocity" state - vastly increasing the number of states Virginia recognizes.  This move reverses the unilateral…

  Sunday? “One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.“ - A. W. Tozer by Frank Sharpe Fortress Defense Consultants Recently we were contacted by a…