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By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato
The other day we watched a video reenactment of a horrible, coldblooded murder. The victim was a police officer who had stopped a completely insane motorist. The motorist exited his vehicle and charged the Officer in a violent frenzy. The lunatic then ran back to his vehicle, all the while ignoring the Officer’s clear and repeated verbal commands. The lunatic then produced a shoulder weapon from his vehicle and began shooting at the Officer.
The Officer returned fire but did not hit the lunatic. The armed madman proceeded to fire repeatedly at the Officer, and apparently hit him with at least one round. The Officer fell down and the opportunity for the nut to escape the scene was clearly present. Yet, after returning to his vehicle momentarily, the lunatic went right back to where the Officer lay. As the Officer pleaded for his life, the madman fired more rounds into him, hitting him at very close range and killing him.
There you have an example, a classic example, of sheer ruthlessness.
Most violent scum lack anything resembling a high level of technical skill in close combat—with or without weapons of any kind. But what they do possess—in abundance—is ruthlessness. And in fact it is largely their ruthlessness that makes violent offenders so dangerous.
That living garbage is indifferent to human life, well being, and dignity. It simply explodes with whatever degree and “style” of destructive force it wishes—for whatever self-serving purpose it desires. The violent dregs of human society use murderous force to take someone else’s property, or money. If the sewage desires sexual gratification and the feeling of dominance that some predatory animals seek, it rapes.
If simple satisfaction, perhaps the delight of reveling in a sense of “machismo” is the goal, then the toxic muck terrorizes, subjugates, damages, and destroys. Violent predators do whatever their insane impulses drive them to do—like rabid dogs or rats. They are utterly and completely ruthless.
Violent predators may bear a surface physical similarity to human beings, but it is the shame of “civilizations” that these botched life forms are not regarded as the s––t they really are and destroyed upon being discovered and caught.
No doubt about it and get this straight: Violent offenders are ruthless.
The big question is: “Are YOU?”
When we insist that you must be ruthless in dealing with violent criminal attackers (and we do insist that you must be) we are emphatically not suggesting that you should be as ruthless as violent offenders are, in your normal, daily life. Your ruthlessness must be strictly limited to your unavoidable physical need when and if you are ever forced to defend yourself or someone else.
To be capable of acting ruthlessly is not the same thing as being a ruthless person.
Ruthlessness defined: We define “ruthlessness” as behavior that disregards and is wholly indifferent to the damage, injury, pain, and destruction it causes to another, or to others. It is a combination of attitude and action that callously ignores others’ suffering or loss, and that regards as significant only that which serves and affects oneself.
When you think about it, this practically defines the goddamn violent criminal psychopath and predator. And you must realize and accept this, or you will inevitably be at a disadvantage in learning how to deal with these monsters.
Normally, most people would at first blush think of ruthlessness as a synonym for antisocial. This is not true. Antisocial behavior is plainly wrong. It causes harm to others, without justification. It damages and injures simply to gratify the urges and desires of that which is quite often the psychopathic personality.
To be antisocial might very well include ruthlessness on the part of the antisocial person, but it is not, per se, “ruthlessness”.
Antisocial behavior is not justifiable. Ruthlessness can be justifiable. For example: The violent offender’s ruthlessness is inexcusable and evil. When a potential victim reacts ruthlessly to a violent offender, in order to defend himself against the offender’s attack, the ruthlessness is completely appropriate, desirable, and in our opinion, commendable.
There’s the unpleasant and politically inconvenient truth—the truth that so many “experts” and “teachers” pay no attention to, and may not even be fully aware of, themselves: Ruthless, merciless, cruel, and ferociously brutal counterforce is necessary for self-defense, and you had better make this integral to your combat mindset now, and see that you never lose sight of the reality of this truth!
If you have any human or humane feelings toward a violent assailant, heaven help you! You can rest assured that the sonofabitch has none for you. And there is no way to know if this bastard who is attacking you intends to maim or to kill you. You must assume that he is willing and able to do this, so that you do not enter upon your course of self-defense with woefully inadequate actions and attitude.
Let us reiterate an important point here, before we go further. We are not discussing competition or sport. Nor are we concerned about inconsiderate or impolite persons who make you angry, who perhaps attempt to offend you, or provoke you. Walk away from these useless a—holes.
Do not react with violence to anyone whom you know personally, and are aware from personal, firsthand experience is not dangerous. Shrug off his annoyances and bothersome conduct. Blame yourself for interfacing with such jackasses.
Our concern is defending yourself against dangerous, unknown violent attackers. In such situations “anything goes”, and your concern for any attacker should be the same as that of a physician’s for a cancerous growth!
We produce this Newsletter in order to convey the essence and spirit of real self-defense and close combat to decent, worthwhile human beings who need this knowledge and we want to reach as many people as possible with our message.
Our training, research, experience, and teaching background in the martial arts, as well as in disciplines such as physical training, hypnosis and mental conditioning, survival, and secret operations qualifies us to present what many simply do not know, and what some—for commercial reasons, perhaps—will not tell you.
It is our sincere hope that we contribute to the safety, peace of mind, and well-being of good people everywhere. See a violent physical assailant as an object to be destroyed. Do not subvert your chances of stopping him by considering him human in any sense of the word. Go at him with the fury of an enraged tiger. Destroy! Go for his eyes, his throat, his testicles; break his knee or shinbone, smash into his sternum or solar plexus. Do not be restrained, hesitant, or in the slightest way “fair” or “merciful”!
Just defend yourself! Rip off his ears, break the bridge of his nose. Use anything at hand to assist yourself. To hell with that bastard who unjustly intends to harm you or a loved one! You must not be a “human being” when you are attacked. You must be more inhuman than your attacker obviously is. This is what he is not expecting, is not prepared for, and cannot cope with!
Ruthlessness is not nice. We have said countless times that there is no “nice” way to defend yourself. And there isn’t. The gutter garbage that believes its urge to maim or kill you will meet no serious resistance when it attempts to carry out its plan, must be met with overwhelming, cruel, and mercilessly destructive violence.
Not the slightest compassion or forbearance. Explode in his goddamn face like a hand grenade going off unexpectedly. And keep on attacking him with zero regard for how badly you injure the lout. Stop only when you have decisively brought an end to the threat that he has brought to you.
Anything goes in self-defense. Would that all decent people understand and embrace that—and then train in real combat techniques that enable them to devastate any extralegal assailant who intrudes upon their lives.
Hopefully you will become such a person. Begin by acquiring the ruthless attitude you need, and combine that with training in skills such as we have been teaching well over 40 years! We have never lost a student to a mugger, troublemaker, abductor, punk, bully, or other variant of human filth you care to name. One reason why is because they learn from us to be ruthless!