Archive for cover

Cover Location

In a recent home assault, a homeowner fought off two armed assailants without receiving an injury. According to the news report, the Lafayette, La., man stopped the attackers at the door by exchanging gunfire with the pair.

June 05, 2013

Defensive Fundamentals

It takes training and practice to implement the fundamentals of defense.

January 03, 2013

Movie Cover

I’m always amazed at how Hollywood seems to believe that couches, plank walls and interior doors can serve as cover for the hero and stop bullets. Don’t they have anyone who understands even the basics of ballistics, or the different between cover and concealment? I’m assuming not since heroes and heroines never get hit when hiding behind concealment, while the villain gets blown away when crouching behind cover.

November 21, 2012

Cover Versus Concealment

Like most guys, I love a good shoot’um up movie, but I’m always irritated when the protagonist dives behind a couch, or some other flimsy object, right before the bad guy sprays the object with bullets. And even though the object would have never stopped a bullet—much less multiple bullets—the hero jumps up unharmed and drops the bad guy with a well-placed shot.

January 13, 2011