Okay bad news here folks. More than guns, the media causes mass shootings.From a pure numbers standpoint, mass shootings are statistically meaningless. If you look at the FBI Uniform Crime Report there were 12,765 non-negligent homicides (manslaughters/murders, non-LEOs and accidental). Of them ALL kinds of firearms were used in 8,855. http://www.fbi.gov/…/expanded_homicide_data_table_8 … Now if you … [Read more…]
Don’t just do your homework, but to put on the BS sensors too. Start by having a basic understanding of statistics and how important it is to look at ANY categorization and understand the parameters and standards that go into that category; much less how they came up with that number. There’s an old adage … [Read more…]
As much as many people may dislike bankers, financial systems have enabled civilizations to develop and prosper. The availability and flow of capital has facilitated the creation of modern societies. There is another commodity that also central to civilization and individual prosperity, it is the “supply” or “amount” of Trust in society. Trust is defined … [Read more…]
From a conversation about feelings ****First off. Take your finger, press it into your arm. That’s ‘feeling.’Emotions are emotions.Where things get tricky is that along with emotions come adrenaline, muscle tension and changes in perception (a different part of the brain — that does something else becomes active). Until you learn how to suppress … [Read more…]
The word “how” appears frequently in self-defense related questions and answers as in “How do I defend myself from X?” and “This is how you defend yourself from Y.” Typically, this “how” refers to some physical technique someone can employ when being “attacked” in some manner. This is the “Simple How”. When the Simple … [Read more…]
Yesterday, I was in the middle of a crowded bike ride in New York City, I had just rode off a curb in order to get from the sidewalk to the street when my gears started to rattle. I quickly pulled over and inspected my gear wheel. Sure enough, part of the derailleur was sagging … [Read more…]
Often we mistake our perspective for truth and full knowledge. All those people looking down from their windows were looking at the initial assault from different perspectives. None of them were on the ground. From way up there, you couldn’t see the knife. So what you would see from a window looked like a … [Read more…]
Some background first. There are a lot of experts on criminal behavior out there. There are also a lot of ‘experts’. ‘Experts’ first. The biggest problem is that bad guys lie. A lot of the so-called experts were clearly snowed. They were manipulated from the very beginning to tell the story that the bad guy … [Read more…]
Get a cup of coffee, this is a long one, even for me. ************ “The trouble with people is not that they don’t know, but that they know so much that ain’t so.” ~Josh Billings That’s an important distinction, but, if you haven’t made it yet, it’s pretty easy to just think of people as … [Read more…]