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Paul Glasco: How to Make a Monster | SOTG Special Edition
Friday, September 6, 2024 • Duration 36:26
Back in May, we had Paul Glasco on the show with us to discuss his new book “How To Make A Monster: A Sensible Look At Rampage Killers”, and in light of recent events, we thought it pertinent to share this interview with you again.
In this discussion, Mr. Glaso explains factors that tie all of the recent rampage killers together. What facts has the mainstream media deliberately overlooked or flat out lied about?
In “How To Make A Monster”, Paul Glasco performs a true root cause analysis of rampage killers - sometimes referred to as "mass shooters". The book looks at how broken homes, being bullied, and children on psychotropic drugs can affect personalities as young people mature. Previous killers from shootings such as Columbine, Virginia Tech, Las Vegas, and Parkland are broken down based on these causal factors.
Paul goes on to explain in detail how profitable the business of rampage killings is for the media, politicians, and other opportunists by tracing the money back to these people making the money and why they offer no solutions or suggestions on how to prevent rampage killings or on false claims of "gun safety."
Not only does Paul break down potential contributing factors as to how rampage killers may be created, but he also offers suggestions on how to prevent future potential killers from being created and how to recognize and deal with signs of potential trouble.
Good Guy with a Shotgun Stops Maniac & Be Strong, Be Harder to Kill | SOTG 1257
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 • Duration 01:39:10
“Strong people are harder to kill and more useful in general.” So Matt Reynolds, founder of Barbell Logic Online Coaching has said. Recently Matt delivered a motivational talk at the Tactical Response Alumni Weekend. We are going to share that with you.
During our SOTG Homeroom from www.SOTGU.com, we consider yet again the importance of being dangerous on demand. This time it was a Las Vegas resident who was called upon to stop a maniac from killing innocent people.
As usual, we have a Tech Talk from EOTech Inc, a Froglube ProTip and much more. Tune in and listen louder.
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Dangerous Targets & Adam Kraut from SAF | SOTG 1248
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 • Duration 01:35:48
This week we have a special guest, Adam Kraut, the Executive Director of the Second Amendment Foundation. Adam will discuss the importance of recent court decisions and the legal battles that American citizens are fighting against criminal government overreach.
During our SOTG Homeroom from www.SOTGU.com Professor Paul will discuss a recent article published at Shooting News Weekly. There are some range props and materials used to build ranges that could prove to be hazardous to shooters and onlookers.
For this week’s Tech Talk from EOTech Inc. we will discuss the importance of electronic hearing protection and the benefits of using line of sight radios during training. During our ProTip from Froglube we talked about traps and bears.
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Arkansas Grocery Store Attack: Always Carry the Fundamental Four | SOTG 1247
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 • Duration 01:27:55
A recent rampage killing sprees at a grocery store in Arkansas once more demonstrates the necessity for the Fundamental Four; lethal, sharp, bright, medical. Never leave your house without them. Have supreme confidence in your ability to use them.
During our Tech Talk from EOTech Inc we will consider mounting and using a mini red dot optic on a handgun. Also, could you hit your target if the dot stopped working?
Also, during our Pro Tip of the Week from FrogLube we will consider firearms cleaning and maintenance from the perspective of bore cleaning. Tune in and listen louder.
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The saying goes, “Be ready so you don’t have to get ready.” The Government of Denmark just advised its people to get ready and prepare for a potential war with Russia. What is the advice that they are being given and how does that jive with reality?
Two court rulings have come down in the last week highlighting the criminal overreach by Joe Biden’s “AFT”. First the prohibition against the pistol brace was thrown out by a judge in Texas. Then the US Supreme Court ruled that the AFT overstepped its authority by classifying bump-stocks as “machine guns”.
We have a Tech Talk from EOTech for you. Do you need an optic on your fighting shotgun? Also, we have another ProTip discussion from FrogLube.
Carry a Gun to the Grocery Store & Shark Attack | SOTG 1245
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 • Duration 01:22:03
Do you carry your fundamental four everywhere, even to the grocery store? A woman was stabbed and her child murdered by a maniac wielding a knife in a grocery store parking lot in Ohio. What lessons can we learn?
Three people were attacked and maimed by sharks in Florida on the same day in the same area. Fortunately none died despite life-threatening injuries due to the efforts of the people on the scene. Are you carrying medical gear to the beach?
Also, during our Tech Talk from EOTech we consider the importance of understanding off set. We have a Frog Lube Pro Tip of the week for you as well.
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Tritium Sights & Marty from Talking Lead | SOTG 1244
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 • Duration 01:51:32
Our buddy, Marty from Talking Lead, will join us for an after-action discussion of our recent time spent in Dallas, Texas at the NRA Annual Meeting & Exhibits. It’s always great to have our old friends on the show.
During our Tech Talk from EOTech Inc. we will consider Tritium sights, specifically “Police Trade-In Night Sights”. Are you getting a good deal when you buy trade-in cop guns with Tritium sights or are you being ripped off?
Also, do extra-heavy triggers prevent negligent discharges? During our SOTG Homeroom from www.SOTGU.com, we will answer a question from a listener in regards to the infamous “New York triggers”.
State of the NRA w/ Isaac Demarest & Lubing your Shotguns | SOTG 1243
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 • Duration 01:31:16
What is truly going on with the NRA leadership? We have Isaac Demarest, an NRA Board Member, with us today to discuss the changes taking place at the National Rifle Association.
During our Tech Talk from EOTech, Inc., Professor Paul will consider the importance of understanding offset. What is offset and how does it apply to a firearm with an optic? Also, we have a Froglube Pro Tip for you. Shotguns need lube too. How much and where should you put the lube?
Finally, during our SOTG Homeroom from SOTG University, we have a new friend, Tim Evancich, who will tell us about the patriotic, educational programs that have been implemented at his children’s school.
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The team spent a glorious long weekend in Big D. We have live reports from the floor of the NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibits held in Dallas, Texas. Thanks to Kel Tec Firearms, we had a recording studio on the floor. Thank you to all of you who came out to our book signing events and said hello.
A number of special guests joined us, including Paul Glasco, author of “How to Make a Monster: And Why No One Cares”. Mr. Glaso explains factors that tie all of the recent rampage killers together. What facts has the mainstream media deliberately overlooked or flat out lied about?
Also joining us is our long time friend, Dave, from MKS Supply. What’s new with Full Forge Gear and Hi-Point Firearms? Then it was Hammer Time in the booth as “Hammer” joined us to discuss Kel Tec products and mac & cheese. You don’t want to miss this show.
FEATURING: Paul Glasco, Dave Kiwacka, Kris Hammer, Kel Tec, Madison Rising, Jarrad Markel, Paul Markel
NRA Dallas 2024 - Coming to you from the Kel Tec Booth!
Paul Glasco on his new book “How to Make a Monster and why no one cares”
Dave Kiwacka on Full Forge Gear body armor
Kris Hammer w/ Kel Tec
Gun Control Gestapo Silent on Philly Bus Stop Shooting | SOTG 1241
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 • Duration 01:16:38
Did you hear about the “mass shooting” in Philadelphia? We are willing to bet that unless you live in Pennsylvania, you did not. You might ask yourself why? The media loves blood in the streets and they love pushing gun control, why bury this story?
How much scope is too much scope? During our Tech Talk from EOTech Inc we consider the pros and cons of high powered optics.
Does Gun Control make you safer? Are countries that restrict gun ownership “safer”? For our SOTG Homeroom we will address a horrific story from Mexico where unarmed tourists were murdered for their truck tires.
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Not long ago, I began a review by stating, “It’s a strange thing to live long enough to see something that was once commonplace become…unique.” Yet here again I find myself preparing to tell a story about a gun that in my youth was so commonplace that no one really needed to explain its history or significance. When I started writing firearms-related articles in the early 1990’s you didn’t need to spend time telling the story of the Browning Hi-Power, AKA the P35. The majority of gun people already knew it.
Now, thirty years or so later — wow, have I been writing that long? — we have an entire generation, maybe two, who weren’t raised on the old WWII or Cold War guns. Some of those people confuse the term Hi-Power with Hi-Point. About a year ago, my friend Nicholas Orr wrote a book discussing the historical significance of many small arms used during the last century and a half; A Pipe Hitters Guide to Small Arms & Weapons. With Mr. Orr’s permission, I’ve pulled an excerpt from that book.
Sometimes it takes a good guy with a gun to take out someone intent on doing people harm. Such is the case in Las Vegas where a Good Samaritan did just that, likely preventing a man from killing a number of people.
Las Vegas Metro police said that a man, who was not identified, showed up for his job with a home remodeling firm and was declared "unfit" to work. He was subsequently fired by his employer. That led the man to go on an unhinged rampage, with him getting into his SUV and driving recklessly down the street, RVM News reported. Some residents who were out on the streets and sidewalks had to dive out of harm’s way.
One resident told reporters about the incident.
“He was trying to hit somebody, and it was either going to be me or the kid or whoever’s standing in that road,” said Richard Osayna.
However, the incident was not without victims. Two men were struck by the suspect’s SUV, including his now-former boss, with the incident happening in Osayna’s driveway.
More good news out of the Northern District of Texas. Judge Reed O’Connor has issued a ruling in Mock v. Garland vacating the ATF’s byzantine rule that effectively bans pistol braces. You know…the same pistol braces the ATF had previously said were perfectly fine and an acceptable firearm accessory. That, of course, was back before the Biden administration waged a war on gun owners, their rights, and companies that make legal products those people want to buy.
This comes the same week the decrepit but still rabidly anti-gun president was trundled out of the White House and propped up behind a podium at Everytown’s “Gun Sense University” meeting of anti-gun flying monkeys. There the president once again rotely spouted all the same bogus hoplophobic talking points he’s been using since first finding himself in the Oval Office in 2021.
Judge O’Connor granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgement . . .
For the reasons set out above, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment on the grounds that the Final Rule violated the APA’s procedural requirements because it was arbitrary and capricious and was not a logical outgrowth of the Proposed Rule; DENIES Defendants’ Cross Motion for Summary Judgment; DENIES Plaintiffs’ request for a permanent injunction; and VACATES the Final Rule.
Two teenagers and a woman were injured in two shark attacks less than two hours apart Friday afternoon in the Florida Panhandle. The woman lost her lower left arm and suffered "significant trauma" to other areas of her body, officials said at a Friday afternoon news conference. The mother of one of the teens said the girl's hand had been taken and her right leg had to be amputated.
Both incidents happened between Miramar Beach and Panama City Beach on the Gulf of Mexico.
Beaches in Walton and Bay counties were closed Friday and reopened Saturday morning, with warnings. The Walton County Sheriff's Office and Florida Fish and Wildlife monitored the shoreline by boat through the weekend. Panama City Beach Police in the Sheriff's Office helicopter Saturday reported seeing "a notable presence of sharks, specifically bull sharks," near the first incident.
North Olmsted officials held a news conference Tuesday afternoon to shed light on what happened in the minutes leading up to the fatal stabbing of a toddler in the Giant Eagle parking lot.
According to North Olmsted Police Detective Sgt. Matt Beck, the suspect, 32-year-old Bionca Ellis, was at the Volunteers of America store, which is a thrift shop adjacent to the grocery store, where she obtained some sort of kitchen knife. It's unclear if she paid for it or stole it.
Ellis then left the store, walked over to Giant Eagle, located in the 27000 block of Lorain Road, just after 3 p.m., and approached the 38-year-old mother, who was pushing her 3-year-old Julian Wood in a grocery cart as they were nearing their vehicle. Ellis allegedly stabbed the woman and Julian multiple times and walked off. The entire attack unfolded quickly, Beck said.
The slayings of two Australian brothers and their American friend while on a surfing trip in Mexico are "eerily similar" to the murders of an elderly San Diego couple in the Mexican state four years ago, a private investigator told FOX News Digital.
Ian Hirschsohn and Kathy Harvey, a retired couple in their 70s, were killed in their vacation home in El Socorrito, a tiny beach town in Baja California, in the summer of 2020. This case immediately came to mind for Jay Armes III, who specializes in kidnappings in Mexico and works cases all over the world.
According to prosecutors, Hirschsohn and Harvey were stabbed to death during a home invasion by a man who stole their bedding, according to a statement by the Baja California Attorney General's Office.
They were reported missing by family members on Sept. 2, and their bodies were discovered two days later dumped in a well in a remote area of Ensenada, about 90 minutes south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Hirschsohn’s daughter identified the suspect as a member of the family that owned the ranch where her father’s vacation home was located.
Philadelphia police have arrested a fifth suspect in connection with a SEPTA bus stop shooting that injured eight students.
Investigators have said they would be arresting more than just the four primary suspects.
During a press conference on Thursday, police announced the arrest of 15-year-old Jeremiah Jefferson, who investigators said helped four others carry out the mass shooting on March 6.
"We now have evidence that he was in communication with the people inside that car," said Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore.
The four other suspects, who are also in police custody, were seen on video exiting a dark-colored vehicle before the shooting began. They have been identified as 17-year-old Asir Boone, 19-year-old Jermahd Carter, 18-year-old Jamaal Tucker and 18-year-old Ahnile Buggs.
