EP081 GunBlog VarietyCast - Special Guest: VCDL President Philip Van Cleave

EP081 GunBlog VarietyCast

 

• Blue Collar Prepping - Mental Models

• Foreign Policy for Grownups - What’s up with Greece?

• Pacifiers & Peacemakers - Teach your Kids Gun Safety!

• Tech Tips with The Barron  - The Drown Attack

• Special Guest - Philip Van Cleave from Virginia Citizens Defense League

• This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Vox “Explains” America’s Gun Problem by Cherry Picking Data!

• Our Sponsor - http://www.lawofselfdefense.com/variety

 

 

Blue Collar Prepping - Mental Models

• Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why -  http://amzn.to/1SlMRh6
• Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things - http://amzn.to/1TT9YAR
• Mental Models - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model

 

Felons Behaving Badly

• Warrant: Raleigh teen stole $147K worth of Rolex watches from North Hills jewelry store - http://wncn.com/2016/03/03/warrant-raleigh-teen-stole-147k-worth-of-rolex-watches-from-north-hills-jewelry-store/
• Suspect - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1396909&searchLastName=(Suspect)&searchFirstName=Olusegun&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

 

Foreign Policy for Grownups - What’s up with Greece?

• Welcome to Greece (but not to Europe) - http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/25/welcome-to-greece-but-not-to-europe-schengen-racism/
• In the human smugglers’ den - http://www.politico.eu/article/refugee-crisis-smugglers-syria-turkey-migrants-the-worlds-largest-human-bazaar-migration-refugees-smugglers-greece-turkey/
• French PM says refugee crisis is destabilizing Europe - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/french-pm-manuel-valls-says-refugee-crisis-is-destabilising-europe
• Greece whines after EU warning - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/27/greece-warned-control-borders-schengen-european-commission
• Migrant crisis: why Europe is in a scream - http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35675223
• Sexual attacks widen divisions in European migrant crisis - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/world/europe/a-climate-of-fear-widens-divisions-in-europes-migrant-crisis.html?_r=0
• Merkel - Hollande: Greece will not be expelled - http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/politics/14567-merkel-hollande-greece-will-not-be-expelled-from-schengen-zone.html

 

Plug of the Week

• Down Range Radio #460: Politics, Scopes and Glock Holsters - http://www.downrange.tv/blog/down-range-radio-460-politics-scopes-and-glock-holsters/36702/
• The Squirrel Report Episode 186 - http://sqrpt.com/2016/03/03/1825/

 

Pacifiers & Peacemakers - Teach your Kids Gun Safety!

• Experiment Shows Differences Between Children With Guns in the Home and Those Without - http://fox17.com/news/nation-world/experiment-shows-differences-between-children-with-guns-in-the-home-and-those-without
• Hornady RAPiD Safe - http://amzn.to/21E2P8F
• Hornady Heavy Duty RAPiD Safe - http://amzn.to/21E3o2j
• Gunvault - http://amzn.to/21E2SBE

 

Fun With Headlines

• Franklin grandma posts unique warning for speeding drivers - http://wkrn.com/2013/05/30/franklin-grandma-posts-unique-warning-for-speeding-drivers/

 

Tech Tips with The Barron  - The Drown Attack

• The Drown Attack - https://drownattack.com

 

Special Guest - Philip Van Cleave from Virginia Citizens Defense League

• VCDL - http://www.vcdl.org/
• Details on the "deal" and thanks to the key players - https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/727/2016/02/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/4:24/20160226231537:BF054B28-DD08-11E5-8A0A-8C11F010038B/
• McAuliffe spokesman lashes out at Bloomberg’s ‘group from New York’ - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcauliffe-spokesman-lashes-back-at-bloombergs-group-from-new-york/2016/02/06/a525daf0-cd00-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html

 

This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Vox “Explains” America’s Gun Problem by Cherry Picking Data!

• The state of gun violence in the US, explained in 18 charts - https://youtu.be/bX4qUsgHa4Y
• America's gun problem, explained: http://www.vox.com/2015/10/3/9444417/gun-violence-united-states-america?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=article%3Afixed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
• Table 1: Human Development Index and its components: http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/HDI
• Calculating the human development indices: http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2015_technical_notes.pdf
• DEA: Drug Overdose Deaths Surpass Those From Firearms, Car Crashes - http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/07/dea-drug-overdose-deaths-surpass-firearms-car-crashes/