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“Assault isn’t just for criminals. Elite military teams, hostage rescue, SWAT, and entry teams use this mindset as much as criminals do. They don’t want to be tested or find out what their limitations are, they want to get the job done and go home. The mindset is implacable and predatory. They use surprise, superior numbers, and superior weapons—every cheat they can, and they practice. On the rare, rare occasions when my team made a fast entry and someone actually fought, the only emotion that I registered was that I was offended that they resisted, and we rolled right over the threat(s) like a force of nature.”

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Book:Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence
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“One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. The cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.”

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Book:Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
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“One of the hardest concepts about explaining deadly force is that so few people have a frame of reference. They cannot really grasp what it is to use deadly force or what it will be like to exist even for a few seconds in the conditions that would justify it.”

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Book:Scaling Force: Dynamic Decision Making Under Threat of Violence
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“It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.”

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