Will Dabbs

The 1980 Norco shootout turned a bank robbery into a deadly gunfight that reshaped California law enforcement.

The common denominator for the vast majority of us is that it is essentially make-believe. We practice in the sincere hope that we may someday expire of old age, never having had to unlimber a firearm for real. And then there was FBI Special Agent Walter Walsh.

Jason Everman is the archetypal Renaissance Man. Dissatisfied with the ordinary and mundane, he has tasted fame, enjoyed the fellowship of warriors, dispensed death, and ardently studied life. Along the way, he has discovered what it means truly to live.

Sydney Sweeney has good genes. Those five words have recently touched off a hurricane of controversy amidst the cerulean-haired gender fluids who stand ever ready to be cataclysmically offended by pretty much anything. Full disclosure

In Arthur Jackson, we find an interesting dichotomy. An accomplished warrior rightfully venerated for exhibiting a level of personal valor unimaginable to most of us normal folk, he later found himself in an unexpected dark place.

When things went a little nuts one November day back in 2004 in Fallujah, SSG David Bellavia briefly unlimbered his inner monster.

Much like insurance, I don’t carry a firearm because I ever expect to use it. I keep a gun handy in the rare event that there are no other options available.

Some people seam more inclined to scrap than others. One of those curious men who seemed born to fight was Joseph Drexel Biddle.

On November 28, 1950, Hector Cafferata was asleep in his sleeping bag in a mountainous area near the infamous Chosin Reservoir in Korea. The ground was frozen too hard to dig foxholes, so he and his fellow Marines simply covered themselves in tree branches to afford some modest degree of cover. At around 0130 Cafferata was shocked awake by small arms fire nearby.