Principle Three: Aggressiveness

[grwd]

Principle Three: Aggressiveness


In defense we do not initiate violence. We must grant
our attacker the vast advantage of striking the first blow, or
at least attempting to do so. But thereafter we may return
the attention with what should optimally be overwhelming
violence. "The best defense is a good offense." This is true,
and while we cannot apply it strictly to personal defensive
conduct, we can propose a corollary: "The best personal
defense is an explosive counterattack."


Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any
combat, offensive or defensive. And the very fact that the
assailant does not expect aggressiveness in his victim
usually catches him unaware.


Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I
think the answer is indignation. Read the papers. Watch the
news. These people have no right to prey upon innocent
citizens. They have no right to offer you violence. They are
bad people and you are quite justified in resenting their
behavior to the point of rage. Your response, if attacked,
must not be fear, it must be anger.


If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness
will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have
given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to
counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be
indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

 

[grwd]

bold face was my doing, not the Colonel's.

I see facets of Sun Tzu in Cooper, and I see their reflections in current day instructors.

This is good stuff.

 

[gillman7]

bold face was my doing, not the Colonel's.

I see facets of Sun Tzu in Cooper, and I see their reflections in current day instructors.

This is good stuff.

I noticed the same thing in Cooper's writings. It seems like most of society and even gun owners try to respond in the least offensive way when attacked. They want to discourage an attacker, instead of overwhelm them with aggression. If they have made a decision to attack you, it is not the time to be timid, or fair.

I was told a long time ago, if someone wants to fight you, hurt them bad enough, quick enough that they will stay down, or run away as fast as they can. Too many people have been hurt or killed by wounded BGs or those playing possum.

Meet aggression with brutal force.

 

[henschman]

Reminds me of Ayn Rand, from Atlas Shrugged:

"It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction."

 

[LightningCrash]

It's like my uncle used to do... people would mess with him and he'd put up with it for as long as he could.
When he'd had enough, he screamed at the top of his lungs and beat the crap out of them.
The screaming always scared them so bad that they'd be scrambling just to stay on their feet.

They were never ready for the tasmanian devil they just provoked...even the second, third, fourth time around.

Pic related

 

[Glock 'em down]

Lemme see yer war face! You got a war face?!

AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!

That's a war face!

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=O6vHOR8lzTg&feature=related

 

[prdator]

With every thing you got!!!! Very nice..

That has always been my plan, once it starts, they will get all I have...

 

[Glocktogo]

I plan to let the old "Devil Dog" inside me loose if ever attacked.

 

[h8ns8n]

this is where I get confused..... i posed a scenario here a while back in which someone was being aggressive even physical and the overwhelming response from everyone was to walk away because as a ccw holder I had no other choice. so my question ...is this "training" refering to a physical cofrontation in which deadly force on my part woulb be unjustified (say the attacker had no weapon) or are we talking armed attacker?

 

[grwd]

if you are in fear for your life, if you think the only way that you will survive is to act.

The fact that you were able to use other means (other than deadly force) to make it out of that situation shows that you probably did the correct thing.

If you are able to walk away from a fight to safety, like you were advised, then you always should.


Its when you have two choices, act or die.