Primordial Defense

06/15/2026

A recent incident in Virginia, where a church event tent collapsed during an anniversary celebration, resulting in a mass casualty incident, serves as a stark reminder of the multifaceted nature of church safety.

As details continue to emerge, this tragic event underscores that church safety encompasses more than just active shooter scenarios.

Key aspects include medical emergencies, crowd management, evacuations, communication, and emergency response.

Unfortunately, many church safety teams prioritize threat preparedness while overlooking other potential emergencies that are more likely to occur.

As I have said before, many church members and church security teams will quickly and proudly talk about how they have cops at their church. But not once have I ever heard that same energy in a boastful claim that they have firefighters or nurses at their church. Your plan has to involve more than just cops. You need to treat your church like a little town and cover more than just police/security. Look at fire and medical as well. You are more likely to experience fire or medical issues than you are targeted violence.

06/14/2026

A tragic incident took place at the Ponte do Esqueleto (“Skeleton Bridge”), an abandoned structure linking the cities of Limeira and Cordeirópolis in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

The victim, 21 year old Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, paid approximately $290 for the pendulum jump and video documentation. Viral footage captured online reveals that staff from the operating company, Entre Cordas, carried her to the platform edge by holding up her over their heads and apparently forgetting to secure her safety rope. They threw her outwards off the bridge.

She plummeted roughly 40 meters (130 feet) into a canyon ravine. Onlookers screamed in panic as they realized the rope was missing. Medics pronounced her deceased at the scene.

Local police intervened and arrested six individuals (five men and one woman) connected to the operating team after they allegedly attempted to flee the scene.

Immediately following the tragedy, the company, Entre Cordas, deleted its official Instagram account and deactivated the WhatsApp group used to coordinate with customers.

Local authorities noted that while the "Skeleton Bridge" is heavily promoted on social media by extreme sports enthusiasts, it is not an official tourist destination and completely lacks official regulatory oversight or safety infrastructure.
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That last part. Lacks official regulatory oversight or safety infrastructure. This is why it’s important for there to be an entity to have the power to inspect and take actions on inspection failures. I get people’s desire for less government, but in some instances we need government insight to keep bad actors in line. Look right now at your local health dept and their restaurant inspections. There are restaurants who know these inspections are coming and still fail or get bad scores. And out of those who get bad scores or fail they know they have to pass their second inspection or else and some of them still don’t improve all that great and can’t even pass with a 100%. Imagine what it would be like without health inspectors. Scary.

Why did this happen? Complacency and lack of good safety protocols. Money was more coveted than a culture of safety. I see this same crap in the security industry. Clients that don’t care about security just their profits. Like these places that want to do bag checks and say it’s for weapons but don’t want metal detectors or pat downs. They don’t care about weapons. They care about outside food and drink coming in. They care more about profits than safety. And in this incident is no different in my opinion. They cared more about profits than safety.

06/14/2026

Taught a taser class today for an individual and during transition drills I had the student stow the taser and go to inert OC can as a transition option. As part of this drill, I had a taser and was walking towards them with it arcing and their objective was to complete that transition and get the inert can of OC up and deploy it on me before I reached them and touch them with the arcing taser.

The student had their OC pouch and magazine pouch close together. Under the stress of that drill, they grabbed a magazine from the magazine pouch and brought it up instead of the inert OC can. This is not the first time I’ve seen this happen. It happens more than you think. I had one sheriff deputy once that had a similar setup and they tried to jam their OC can into their pistol during a reload.

Why did I have an OC transition skill for a student in a taser class? Because it’s possible they could have to transition to OC. Or their sidearm. I also had emergency jettison drills where they dropped an inert taser and drew an inert pistol. I don’t believe all training drills in taser class should be just taser only. The drills need to involve other tools that could be used during an incident where they’re using a taser. Better training value and it allows students to find out if their equipment setups are good or not.

So many times I see duty belt setups and outer vest carrier setups that are more setup for comfort than anything. Setups should be for the fight in mind. Not comfort. The majority of the work is not fighting. It’s talking. Sitting in cars. Sitting at desks. I get it. The vertical mag pouch and OC pouch to front digs in. The taser cross draw digs in. Not comfortable. But when that fight occurs that comfortable setup may not prevail because equipment isn’t in the most optimal placement. May lead to defeat. A fighting setup that isn’t as comfortable can be more likely to prevail because it’s positioned better.

Fighting equipment and how they’re carried should not be comfortable. Rather it should be comforting.

06/13/2026

06/12/2026

So this was publicly released not long ago about Chinese intelligence staff creating fake job listings to recruit people with security clearances. There’s more stuff China is doing.

With the efforts China is taking, I see the likelihood of China taking efforts or have probably taken efforts already to infiltrate the private security sector. When you look at many government buildings that have security, do you see private security companies providing services? A lot of gov buildings use private security companies. When I attended a training event at the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security last month, I was met by Allied security guards at the front door. A company that doesn’t have the greatest reputation. But why are they the ones chosen? Price. And what is one thing intelligence agencies use to turn people? Money. That is a vulnerability. What if China wanted to target Kentucky because of Andy Beshear our current governor wanting to run for President? Right now China could easily exploit the building the fusion center is housed in all because they are using a very cheap provider. That building also houses transportation. That’s their way in to seek vulnerabilities in our roadways and with licensing.
And to make matters worse, there are no laws in Kentucky regulating security, so anyone can work security. No background checks. Nothing. That creates exploitable conditions. Easily exploitable conditions. To strengthen our critical infrastructure resiliency, we need to enact sensible regulatory laws for security in Kentucky. We must also across the nation enact laws that regulate what security companies are used at places of critical infrastructure. We don’t need companies like Allied being hired to protect critical infrastructure. So we have to look at why companies like Allied are used. Aside from pricing it’s also a way for entities to be able to shift full liability off to another entity. They would rather a rented guard company get sued instead of themselves. So that means we need to look at giving qualified immunity to entities or persons who are tasked with the physical protection of critical infrastructure. Then these places will be more comfortable hiring their own security staff instead of trying to outsource it.

06/12/2026

I think this is a strong case for why it should be illegal for companies to ban guns for customers and employees. If the manager was armed this could’ve had a different outcome. But because of bull crap company policies banning employees from carrying guns the manager would not have been allowed and would face disciplinary action if ever caught. Assuming they’re even a gun carrying kind of person.
Policies should not restrict people’s right to bear arms or to be able to protect their self. Self protection is a universal human right and should not be infringed.

06/12/2026

06/12/2026

A man died while live-streaming for his show called Coffee Time with John and Momma. I’ve watched the video. You just see him say he doesn’t feel good and he leans forward and goes unconscious. Since he’s unconscious he can’t maintain his balance so he rolls backwards and falls out of his chair. His mother goes hysterical and attempts to summon help. Another gentleman finally enters and you can hear him calling out to John but not getting any replies. He tries to assess John and moves around and asking if he’s okay and at one point he says he’s not sure what else to do. Says he’s not even sure if he’s breathing.

Basic medical knowledge needs to be a prerequisite for graduating high school. You should know how to perform CPR. It can increase chances of survival. Would it have made a difference for this guy? Maybe. Maybe not. But I know that screaming and repeatedly asking an unconscious person if they’re okay with no responses given is not going to increase their chances of survival.

The lessons that we learn are written on the tombstones of others.

If you love your family get some medical training.

Health and diet can also be a topic of discussion in relation to this event. But that’s all I’m going to say on that. My biggest point I want to make is learning some basic first aid/CPR.