This weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters.
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26 States, and counting: Another Red State Passes Constitutional Carry Bill.
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AI-generated spam may soon be flooding your inbox—and it will be personalized to be especially persuasive.
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Reader A.P. sent this in respoinse to my recent posts on crime rate maps:
“An interesting factoid: In Canada there is a medium sized town in Ontario. Smiths Falls. It used to be a railroad hub with both national carriers passing through. It is located at the edge of the Canadian shield and the glacial till land. Some decent farms but a lot of hard scrabble land around it. So not particularly prosperous and very rough citizens. A population of around 9,000 people. For years it was the murder capital of Canada on a per capita basis.”
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And reader M.P. had these comments:
“The article on mapping US gun ownership does, indeed, show some surprises. Living in NH, I was amazed at how low the rates of gun ownership are here, though I suspect the heavily left-leaning and densely populated southeast corner of the state skews things.
It would be very interesting to see this data mapped against the rate of crimes committed with guns by state. Even more so if we could see that data by county. I suspect there is a strong inverse correlation between gun ownership rate and ‘gun crime’ (though I despise that term). I have only ever seen the comparison of such crime rates and anti-gun laws.”
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In The WSJ: The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account.
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Reader J.R.G. had this response to a recent knife review:
“I wanted to commend Mr. Christianson on his review of the TOPS 4.0 Folding knife in April 24 issue. I agree with his assertion that a multitool often has more day-to-day use than a knife. Modern life has many more fasteners than it had in yesteryear. My most often used tool is the keychain SAK – a blade and scissors in the office environment is often called for.
I own a very similar TOPS fixed blade MSK2.5 U-942 knife which I find very satisfactory as a minimal bulk kit knife. About 7 5/8” in overall length. TOPS certainly has some innovative ideas.”
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The next stage of the war in Ukraine: Analyzing Kyiv’s strategy — DW News.
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