Reactuate

Video of a cop getting shot after pepper spraying someone.
A crazy and disturbing video. The cop finally stops a car after a chase, gets out and casually walks up the driver’s window and sprays a can a pepper spray. And then as if that had rendered the guy unconscious or something, turns and walks away. [...]

I’ve had this post in my head for a long time. I’m a fan of the CBS show Jericho, about a small Kansas town after a limited nuclear attack on the US, including an EMP.
I read Survival Blog and learn a lot from it, but there have been a couple of posts critical of Jericho, [...]

I stumbled across the novel Lights Out (PDF Download) today and I’m three pages in and already had an interesting thought.

The book is about the US after an EMP blast, and starts with two characters at work. They realize quickly that their cars don’t work because of the pulse (I wonder if my no frills [...]

If you are shopping for gun or survival gear most of it is black. Is that a good idea? I thought about it the first time I dropped my black pocket knife at night. Black is hard to see in the day on a dark background, and its neigh impossible at night.
So as I’ve bought [...]

Time is reporting that Marines in Iraq are using Silly String - the party favor in a can - to detect trip wires. They spray the string - which is really a foam - into a door way and it catches on the foam without tripping the device.
Cool.

I entered the Survival Blog’s writing contest and my entry was posted today. I’ve been thinking about writing on phsical fitness as a survival skill for awhile now. So when I decided to enter the contest it was the first thing on my mind.
When people talk about preparedness they often focus on the stuff they [...]

A great article on Bruce Schneier’s site about the difference between Perceived Risk vs Actual Risk.
Here’s some bullet points

# We over-react to intentional actions, and under-react to accidents, abstract events, and natural phenomena.

# We over-react to things that offend our morals.

# We over-react to immediate threats and under-react to long-term threats.

# We under-react to changes [...]

A very indepth article and analysis of the story of Lance Thomas, a jewelry store owner in LA who was involved in gun battles 4 times against a total of 11 attackers.
My favorite quote:
“Each and every one of them had died from a sudden and acute failure of the victim selection process.”