https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-LXdJMV2U
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The Survival Triad is what you must have on your side in order to win a lethal confrontation.
It is composed of three parts:
1.The Combat Mindset. Best described as the mental willingness to inflict incapacitating damage to your opponent through overwhelming violence with no regard for your opponent's well being.
2.Skill. Best described as having the ability to use tools of defense (empty hands, edged or improvised weapons, guns) to inflict immediate and incapacitating damage to your opponent in a lethal encounter.
3.Action. Best described as moving decisively and immediately to incapacitate your opponent and not stopping until he is vanquished.
Now watch this video of an armed robbery and I will then discuss how The Survival Triad applies to this lethal encounter.
So what went right and what went wrong in this lethal encounter?
What went right is four, unarmed private citizens had the willingness to act immediately against an armed and threatening criminal.
Notice that action always beats reaction. These four citizens do an excellent job in initially turning the tables on the criminal. The first citizen is the star, who makes a move to deflect and disarm the gun and it appears initially that they have the upper hand on the armed robber.
What went wrong is these four citizen only possessed TWO of the THREE aspects of the Survival Triad.
Although they demonstrated the Combat Mindset with their willingness to fight and they demonstrated Action by taking the fight to their opponent, they lacked the skill to inflict immediate and incapacitation damage to finish the fight.
As a result, the four of them cannot incapacitate an average sized, street punk.? The first private citizen who moves to deflect and disarm the gun is later critically wounded and the fourth citizen who is hitting the armed criminal with the effectiveness of a junior high school girl ends up paying for his lack of skill with his life.
This is so unfortunate, because these four citizens did what was right. They just lacked the skill to use the tools that they had.
Even unarmed, once the gun was deflected and grabbed, had any of the four citizens used a thumb to gouge out an eye of the gunman, or smashed the lateral aspect of the gunman's knee with a forceful kick, or crushed his windpipe with a directed punch, or any number of empty hand defensive moves that are easily learned in a basic course, the outcome of this lethal encounter would have been completely different.
Again, they simply lacked skill.
Had any of the four citizens been armed with a folding knife and the ability to simply deploy it, I'm sure you can see how much easier it would have been to deliver immediate and incapacitating damage to the gunman.
And had any of the citizens had a concealed weapon, with Front Sight's training- which gives you the skill to present your weapon from a concealed holster and deliver two, sighted shots to the center of mass within 1.5 seconds from 5 yards away--there would have been a dead gunman instead of dead and critically injured citizens.
People are complicated.
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