ISSUE #180      GUIDED CHAOS NEWS            follow us on Twitter @GuidedChaos

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FAMILY FIGHTS OFF SERIAL KILLER--AND LIVES TO TELL   "HUNTING HUMANS"    CBS 48 HOURS MYSTERY    This Saturday 10PM Eastern/9PM Central    Watch video promo of show

Crimesider asked former cop and self-defense expert John Perkins for practical advice on surviving a home invasion: [CRIMESIDER.COM will be posting a Guided Chaos home defense video in a few days. Check back soon...] John Perkins Excerpt: "The short story is this: The McDonough family was incredibly lucky. The doors were unlocked; they had no security systems, weapons or a plan to use them. Serial killers are amoral psychopaths and a home invasion is essentially a take-no-prisoners war zone. If you want to live you need to develop a war-like strategy and mindset. Not fighting back is not an option. Anything less and you can die horribly." Check Crimesider.com later in the week and our next Newsletter for Home Invasion Survival Strategies and video from GM Perkins.

Patterned Self-Defense Technique Fails:   Store Clerk Shot, Criminal Escapes     Great article and video from The Truth About Guns.com

Watch video and read original article here. "What’s wrong with this sentence: “Being trained in martial arts, Edri tried to disarm the robber.” I mean, if that’s all you knew about the story, would you approve or disapprove of Alethea Edri’s decision to take on an armed robber at Denver’s Colefax Avenue Video One store? Let’s add some details, you make up your mind, and THEN watch the video. Starting with this: the robber entered the store, pointed a gun at Ms Edri at nearasdammit point blank range and told her to get on the floor . . . That’s not good. Why would he tell he to get on the floor instead of the usual “Gimme the money”? But judging from the video [which you'll watch in a minute], Edri was standing in front of a plate glass window when the robber gave her the command. Not herded into a back room or standing behind the counter. OK, so Edri is a trained martial artist. She doesn’t look like one, or move like one, or talk like one, but let’s assume she is one. A really good one. If you have mad martial arts skills and the assailant was within spitting distance, would you, at that point, attack with your hands? It’s a good time to do so, right? Fight early and fight viciously. “I threw the bag down and grabbed the gun and stepped up to hit him in the jugular,” said Edri, manager of Video One. The problem is she missed because she says the gunman is left-handed. “I’m used to disarming a right-handed person,” said Edri. So I guess we could say that didn’t work out so well for Edri. The assailant “stepped back” and shot her. Or maybe Edri did the right thing. The bullet was a through-and-though, in one side of her arm and out the other. She lived to tell the tale. Isn’t that all that matters? Then again, maybe it was stupid. Maybe she should have just hit the deck and let the robbery play out. Most vide store robberies are not assassinations. Judgment call? You tell me. While I tell you [who hasn't watched the vide yet] this: post-incident, she insults the robber. Calls him stupid. A man who owns a gun, isn’t afraid to use it, remains at liberty and, presumably, owns a TV. And/or knows people who do. Edri says she’s now afraid of being shot. Be afraid Ms. Edri, be very afraid. And now would be a good time to get a CCW permit. Perhaps. What good would a gun have done in this situation? Enquiring minds want to know." What do you think? Was her training appropriate? Is any training appropriate? Should she have acted at all? Comment on our Forum

NO GUN DISARM IS EVER THE SAME: ...SOME ARE POSSIBLE ...SOME ARE SUICIDE ...ALL ARE CHAOS AND UNCHOREOGRAPHED!   THE GUIDED CHAOS WEAPONS SERIES: PART 4: BARE HANDS TO HANDGUNS When to disarm an armed attacker--and when NOT to! Gun disarms from the Guided Chaos point of view: use patterned techniques and you're finished. How to escape. How to get to your own gun. You can be the best target shooter in the world but if you can't fight HAND-TO-HAND at CLOSE RANGE you will never even GET to your gun if you're assaulted. Worse, you could be shot with your own weapon! And if you get the microsecond to draw, an Isosceles or Weaver stance could get you killed. From the military to civilians and even the police-- knife, gun and stick fighting is often taught unrealistically. Based on the brutal, bloody, forensic homicide research of former detective John Perkins plus Perkins' over 100 seriously violent arrests, this comprehensive 4 part DVD series separates film fantasy from forensic fact and dojo delusions from real combat.       COMING TO NEW YORK:   THE ULTIMATE COMBAT GUN SEMINAR   A PREMIUM EVENT   Drawing, shooting and hand-to-hand combat   under extreme pressure at close range.

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CORRECTION ON LAST WEEK'S ARTICLE "THE GUN IS CIVILIZATION"     The authorship of this excellent piece is in dispute.   This is the best original source we've found (thanks Sean):   http://munchkinwrangler.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/why-the-gun-is-civilization/

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