ISSUE #179       GUIDED CHAOS NEWS

THE "PRIVATE LESSON" L.A. SEMINAR...   WHAT DO WE MEAN by "PRIVATE LESSON"? Well, as it turns out,   we've got 8, that's right, EIGHT instructors coming to Los Angeles because   they love the art so...and just want to be there for the hell of it!   What does that mean for you?   It means that aside from having 4 master level instructors, you will be almost   GUARANTEED to get extensive, individual, hands-on instruction!   And what could be a better bang for your buck than getting a virtual   2 Day private lesson?     • LOS ANGELES February 26-27     • SYDNEY AUSTRALIA March 26-27. Early order discount ENDS 3/1/11       Both seminars: Additional discount for law enforcement and military personnel

San Francisco Seminar?    We're getting close to the magic number needed to get the ball rolling    but we still need a few more people. Let us know by email ASAP    We have a window of opportunity in SF that will close soon.    Early order and Military/LEO discounts will be available.    As with all our seminars, open to all skill levels.

The Gun Is Civilization    Maj. L Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some. When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender. There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier or a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly. Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable. When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation... and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act. By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.) BUT REMEMBER: A GUN IS USELESS IF YOU CAN'T GET IT OUT!   THE GUIDED CHAOS WEAPONS SERIES: PART 4: BARE HANDS TO HANDGUNS 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.

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