Lethal Threat Quote of the Day

From a post at pdb titled Personal Space, commenting on that Michael Temkin instructional viddie which advocates closing the distance between yourself and a gun firing threat.

When faced with a lethal threat, your counterattack should be explosively violent, and bewilderingly unexpected.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 05/27 at 12:18 PM

  1. I don’t start shit and I’ve always figured that when the shit goes down everything is up for grabs and nothing is off limits, everything is a potential weapon - bar stool, beer mug, tree limb, anything that can be grabbed and used, will be.

    There is no distinction between clean and dirty fighting, there is just self preservation, at all costs.

    Now, I’m too old for all that beating and pounding so if it ever comes to that it has to happen instantly and overwhelmingly so.

    FWIW, back in 2005 in FL while walking my 2 dogs on leashes at night in our subdivision we were attacked by a 100+ pound Rottweiler that leapt ouf of nowhere. My 2 little spaniel girls were clearly no match so I pulled them behind me as hard as I could and stepped up to the plate and used the only weapon available, my feets. Have you ever kicked a 100lb bag of concrete? I did that night, many times, at least 10 or more times in a span of 30 seconds or so, enough to cause the animal to take off fearing for its very life.
    Neither I nor my mutts received a scratch, but I was shaking uncontrollably and the most out of breath I have ever been in my life. I called animal control (10pm) and got an answering machine. I called the law and they told me to shoot it. I asked if my gun would be impounded during the investigation for duscharging a firearm within the city limits and they said yes. So keep that in mind, if you shoot in self defense you must have 2 guns so you can remain armed after they steal your 1st gun.

    Several weeks later a german shepherd attacked us at night and again I did what needed done. This time the attacker was killed and the owner came out to the street a few seconds too late to save his dog.

    Some weeks later it happened again, again it was another Rottweiler and again I did what I started getting good at with the same results, the animal fled.

    Shortly thereafter we moved 10 miles away.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  05/28  at  10:24 AM

  2. Time was, I would have called that “common sense.” Obviously, too few people understand it today to call it “common.”

    See also these thoughts on our current plague of bullying.

    Posted by Francis W. Porretto  on  05/29  at  04:08 AM

  3. Francis,

    Thank you for your comment, and link to the post “Bullies on Parade.”

    I strive to live as the genuine man described towards the end of the post.

    A genuine man doesn’t bend the knee to any sort of bullying. He doesn’t concede for the sake of being liked; he doesn’t imagine that his moral standing requires that he surrender preemptively. He doubles his fists and shouts, “All right, bring it on. We’ll see who’s standing at the end of this.”

    Posted by John Venlet  on  05/30  at  12:41 PM

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