New Defensive Pistolcraft Newsletter

 Jon Low published a new Defensive Pistolcraft newsletter on December 9. Lots of great gun and self-defense content. And for the mathematically inclined, he even has some topics for you, including a discussion on an algorithm for a random number generator (important for certain types of ciphers). In addition to the links he has excerpts and his own commentary. A couple points that bear emphasis:

• First, commenting on the recent UNLV shooting, Jon writes:

     Why did the bad guy, who committed the mass murder on the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, choose the UNLV campus?  Because it was and is a gun-free-zone.  NEVER send your children into gun-free-zones.  All mass murders occur in gun-free-zones.  Anyone with two neurons can figure out why.  

     The purpose of gun-free-zones is to create unarmed victims for armed criminals to prey upon.  Such is the grist of the Democrat propaganda machine.  Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) can't figure out why the signs posted around the campus didn't prevent the bad guy from bringing a gun onto the campus.  She doesn't have two neurons.  

• And I thought this piece of advice interesting and useful:

Jordan Peterson and many other firearms/self-defense instructors teach that to avoid the protesters/rioters do your business in the morning.  Peterson schedules his lectures at 08:00 because the lazy protesters won't wake up early; they can't, they've been up all night doing drugs and such.  Criminals, generally speaking, conduct business late at night and in the hours just past midnight.  So they are all sleeping when the sun rises.  So you should be doing your stuff when the sun rises or soon thereafter.  

• Jon relates a tale currently circulating of a parent angry at a teacher who taught the parent's child that 1 ÷ 0 = 0 and segues from that into a more general discussion of commonly mistaken information being taught in firearms courses and the value of receiving training from more than one instructor/school. Well worth the read.
• A link to some research from Dr. Bill Lewinksi showing that accelerated heart rates and high emotional arousal do not necessarily predict poor performance. I would add that some people can be very focused and mentally calm at such times.
• Another article he links: ""Skillset: Don’t Go Out" by Rich Grassi, relating how leaving the safety of your home to confront a thief can have poor outcomes. 
• He has a long excerpt and some videos on some disturbing incidents where USCCA, which provides self-defense insurance, appears to have let its customers down by withholding a defense. 
• Some prepping advice:

And in case you get convicted, you must have an escape plan.  Birth certificate (someone born about the same time as you, who died at or near birth, death certificates are not associated with birth certificates), Social Security card, driver's license, passport, etc. based on the birth certificate.  You must have an alternate abode, job, social network, etc. to escape to.  Having a bug out bag is nice, but you must have somewhere to go, to live, to thrive; on a permanent basis.  If you haven't done this, you're not really a prepper.  You're just a Dreamer.  Liberal politicians love Dreamers, because they are helpless waifs dependent on Uncle Sam for sustenance.  You, on the other hand, are a rugged individualist. So, as Greg says, fix your shit.  

• And check out the article on what the FBI considers to be symbols or terms used by domestic terrorists. You might be using some of them--they are rather benign and indicate an agency obsessed with crushing opposition to the Democrat Party rather than upholding the laws of the United States.

A lot more there, so be sure to read the whole thing.