Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Cracked: Non-stupid self defense advice.

So two days after whining about a jurisdiction where nunchucks might be legalized. (Seriously, this is a thing they have a habit of doing).

Cracked now has an "article" of... rather okay self defense advice. Specifically mocking "self defense myths"  That is not even token-anti gun or anti-self defense.  Now article is in quotes because it's not written by their staff or really written at all, instead it's a user submitted  meme-list.

So maybe that's it.

And the "self defense myths" are legit (as far as I can tell).  Such as
  • cautions that pepper-spray can blow back
  •  size is a factor and attackers tend to target those they perceive are smaller and weaker
  •  the importance of deescalation techniques
  •  that you are very likely to know your attacker
  •  that if someone wants to kidnap you then your "unlikely to come back" and should get out.
When they talk about guns it's literally guns require training and "whichever gun you chose, you have to learn how to handle one."

Which is... quite good advice.  

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