I read the article and found it enlightening. One thing that struck me was how callous these people are. Then I found this website and wow it seems a lot of the info was played out in actual crimes. http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/death_row.htm
I read the article and found it enlightening. One thing that struck me was how callous these people are. Then I found this website and wow it seems a lot of the info was played out in actual crimes. http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/death_row.htm
Fairness leads to extinction much faster than harsh parameters.
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
I thought his take on when to draw was quite interesting and one of the aspects of his analysis that was somewhat outside much conventional wisdom. It certainly factors in with the long thread here about the utility of a fast draw. Fast is always better than slow etc etc but in the hand early is really fast.
A great co-read to this would be Coopers essay "The Deadly American" in the context of "being willing". I'm not aware of that essay being on line. Just in his book: "Fireworks".
Then a big wow was the author's very un-PC take on alchoholic beverages; which happened to match my take on it. Which is why I stay away from those threads on forums.
“Remember, being healthy is basically just dying as slowly as possible,” Ricky Gervais
i thought that was a good read with some new interesting bits on mindset i hadnt heard before. i've heard before about being aggressive and bluffing but i hadnt heard the part about telling them you dont have a gun so they know you do.
^^ that part still doesn't make any sense to me, but I grew up in the 'burbs my whole life.
Maybe this might help.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/128...ge=1#i32250561Originally Posted by John_Wayne777
"No, I don't have a gun" is the sarcastic answer to the question that's going through the thug's mind from the time he saw you clear your cover garment. It's kind of like saying, "Just a little closer, that's a good boy" as you square up to him with your gun hand firmly on the grip.
That guy is an idiot.
I don't know that I would endorse the idea of verbalizing that you have a gun. Somebody like Tom Givens or Southnarc or Nyeti would be better reads on the utility of that strategy. I'm sure it would scare off some lower order scumbags, but I don't think that it would phase the higher order predators you're most likely to have to shoot.