Survial Techniques

The WINDOW WAR

“ WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF  three percent of American gun owners or maybe even three percent of the American public decided they were ready to take things to the next level with minor breaches of the law? ” From Western Rifle Shooters Association (via Cocked & Loaded), an interesting variation on some of the same thoughts we've expressed here, and seen elsewhere.  In short, a growing recognition that we have a collection of very nasty people controlling the levers of power today, and what are the options?  Here's another sign of growing unease. “ Survival School Why more Americans are learning to pick locks, bust out of handcuffs, and avoid surveillance. It's a sticky Saturday morning and I'm handcuffed in the back seat of a Jeep Grand Cherokee parked on the side of a Philadelphia street. On one side of me is my boyfriend, Bruce, and on the other his best friend, Nick. Both of them are also cuffed—and like me, sweating like pigs. I reach into my hair and pull out a bobby pin that within seconds I've fashioned into a simple device I use to jimmy open my handcuff locks. Our assignment now is to evade 12 professionally trained trackers in a 25-square-block area for the next eight hours. It may be hard to believe, but we asked for this. Actually, we paid for it: $550 apiece. Today is the final day of a three-day "Urban Escape and Evade" course offered by onPoint Tactical LLC, a New Jersey-based company that teaches soldiers, police officers, and, increasingly, civilians urban survival skills. [Full] Magic might have got us into this mess, but it won't get us out.  That's a DIY deal.