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Today’s Links September 21, 2009

British musings on self defense and gun control.: The author is worried more about people using self defense as a cover for murder than he is about people protecting themselves from violent criminals.
Thinking Big: Strategic Papers on Terrorism: Some interesting stuff on terrorism and insurgency
Toilet lid, bottle and knife: Crazy can be dangerous.

Today’s Links September 20, 2009

Ban guns in places where kids go: I can believe that the mayor of Seattle is trying to push this. It is clear that any such local ordinance will be against the law.

Today’s Links September 19, 2009

GBR-IV Raises $8243.80 For Valour-IT: Nice work for a good cause.
The DHS color code system is flawed.: Schneier nails the problem right here: “… the codes never became useful. There were never any actions associated with them”
Buckshot for self-defense: Hsoi wrote the post so I didn’t have to.

Today’s Links September 18, 2009

Straight Forward in a crooked world: Do your damn duty!: The author makes a good point that if those who believe in self defense avoid jury duty it makes it could well make those cases harder to win in the long run.
FBI Handgun Wounding Factors and Effectiveness: A nice addendum to the wound ballistics from Maddened Fowl
Murder begins where self-defense ends: Predators do not simply select weak and small. They select those they believe that they can surprise and defeat without risk. This is a key difference. Deterrence happens not simply because a victim might win, but because a victim might pose too much of a problem.
Glock 17 with Thumb Safety: For when your safe-action pistol’s action isn’t safe enough?

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Today’s Links

Maddened Fowl: Another gun blog worth taking a look at.
Senate approves guns in Amtrak checked bags: So the trains are going to get treated like airplanes in this regard? I don’t see the issue.
Guns, how many do you really need?: It’s an interesting question. Probably worth a post here.
SIG516: I think this would be an great home-defense gun, too bad about all of legal hoops you would have to jump through to make that happen.