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- From: se08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth Adam Eliot)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Bad tactical position ( was Psychology in Defense)
- Message-ID: <Ef3FX0600iUxI2pOgn@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 22:32:16 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Excerpts from netnews.rec.guns: 19-Nov-92 Re: Bad tactical position (..
- by Andrew @ A. Phoenix@gtep
- # WARNING! If you come of sounding like "Gee, I really don't want to do this,
- # cuz I'm a wimp and pissing my pants!" then you are putting yourself in an
- # extremely bad position. More important than any words you might use is that
- # the tone of your voice must imply "I'm just itchin' to blow your head off!"
- # (Naturally, you aren't and you aint gonna shoot the head, but you've got to
- # make the suspect feel that you *will* shoot to kill.) If you sound too
- # amenable to talking it over, you will loose. So the explanation should
- # be on the order of "I've got nothing to loose here (lie like you
- believe it!),
- #
- # I'm already justified in blowing your ass away (again, lie like you know it!
- # citing the applicable [or not-so applicable] state code might make you sound
- # more convincing) so it's up to you to decide if you want to die or not."
- #
- # The trick is to get the suspect to believe that what you want is in his
- # best interest (and it aint!).
-
- The easiest way seems to just go with how you're ACTUALLY feeling.
- In your best loud and angry voice:
- "I've just cocked this damned revolver which means it don't take much to
- pull the trigger...I'm tired and I'm pissed off and the twitch in my
- index finger might accidently blow your face off....any sudden moves and
- I'll shoot first and think later!!!"
-
- Although the collective wisom I've heard says not to be "chatty" with
- your prisoner, It might possibly be effective to describe what kind of
- heat your packing while waiting for backup
-
- "This here is a .357 Magnum loaded with Federal Jacketed hollow points.
- They've been found to be 95% succesful in ONE SHOT stops. They work by
- expanding inside your body and pulverizing a large mass of your tissue,
- while transmitting a shock wave through you which shreds muscles and
- tendons..."
-
- keep him thinking about the demerits of being tricky. Mind you I'm not
- advocating this latter approach; just think it's interesting.
-
- -Seth
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