I lived in Southern California from 1978 to 1991,  For seven years, I lived in beautiful Malibu which has virtually been destroyed by the Woolsley fire.  One of my very best friends lost his house in one of the canyons.  He had lived there 42 years.  Over the years, I

This past week when a gunman entered a California music bar and started firing, people in the club hid, smashed windows to escape and ran out of back doors. They were not paralyzed by fear as been the case in many mass shootings.  What is perhaps even more terrifying is