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Even a pacifist may defend themselves from an attack in their own home.
1 posted on 09/19/2015 6:42:30 PM PDT by marktwain
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So the pacifist knocked the gun out of the bad guy’s hand, with his cane. Then beat the guy to the gun and shot and killed him.... while the dog lays on the ground whimpering after having his eyes sprayed with pepper spray.... somehow this sounds like a movie.


2 posted on 09/19/2015 6:45:46 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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Love it!


3 posted on 09/19/2015 6:47:04 PM PDT by basil ( God bless the USA!)
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Never bring a gun to a cane fight.....


4 posted on 09/19/2015 6:48:28 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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A pacifist in theory, but only if it’s other people who are getting killed.


5 posted on 09/19/2015 6:50:04 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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Good on this guy.

In general, I despise pacifists. It is a cowardly, suicidal, stupid, and dishonest position. Almost all pacifists will fight on their own behalf. They just won’t fight on your behalf.


8 posted on 09/19/2015 6:54:13 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I've switched. Trump is my #1. He understands how to get things done. Cruz can be VP.)
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Staff Fighting Techniques

Quarterstaff Fighting Stance

As with any fighting technique, your initial stance is of fundamental importance to the likelihood that you’ll be successful in your attempts to attach an enemy or defend yourself. Your feet should be set a little wider than shoulder width apart with one foot in front of the other. You should be facing your opponent with your dominant foot closer to him and your other foot behind you in support. The staff should be held by your non-dominant hand at the base of the weapon. The other hand should be placed a quarter of the way up the staff. Many believe this is why the weapon is called a quarterstaff. There are a number of different pictures available online if you feel you need a little extra help getting the proper stance down.

Avoiding the Downward Strike

The most common attack with a quarterstaff is the downward strike. The most common starting place for most combatants learning quarterstaff fighting techniques is how to defend themselves against the downward strike. You want to begin by stepping to the inside of your adversary, avoiding the potentially devastating blow. At the same time, you want to drop your top hand so that you can deliver a blow with the quarterstaff as it is parallel to the ground. The key to this move is to deliver your blow and avoid your enemy’s attack in one smooth motion. Once you have attacked your enemy’s mid-section, it is instructed that you deliver and overhead blow to the back of your enemy as they crouch over in pain.

Common Defense Maneuver

There are two common defense maneuvers utilized with the quarterstaff. The first is to simply block any overhead blow by moving your dominant hand which should be placed a quarter of the way up the staff. The bottom hand should remain stationary and the dominant hand should move in the direction that the blow is coming from. The second is a defense move used to block a sweeping leg attack. This involves switching the position of the bottom hand and the top hand without releasing them from the quarterstaff.

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/way_5304629_quarterstaff-fighting-techniques.html


9 posted on 09/19/2015 6:54:57 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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I am a little bit skeptical - sounds a bit too much like a movie.

Maybe the pacifist doesn't want his friends to know that he was actually packing heat?

10 posted on 09/19/2015 6:58:42 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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"You're a pacifist !!!"


12 posted on 09/19/2015 7:02:46 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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Wouldn’t the fact that he killed the intruder make him an ex-pacifist?


13 posted on 09/19/2015 7:05:24 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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Especially when he is a pot farmer. Follow on story- the home owner had over a hundred plants and a medium sum of cash.


14 posted on 09/19/2015 7:07:57 PM PDT by jd87031
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Without the perp assuming room temperature, it almost sounds like a Seinfeld episode.....

Does sound like a ‘good shoot’ to me of course some Lib will say he shouldn’t have hit him AFTER dropping the gun and that once the ‘old dude’ had the gun, he was out of danger.

Not me....’But officer, I was scared as he was moving and knew he could disarm me with little effort’
I called 911 and you were among the first here and he had almost stopped bleeding.......


20 posted on 09/19/2015 7:35:56 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"I start feeling that IÂ’m Diagonally Parked In A Parallel Universe".)
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Damn LUCKY. Never bring a stick to a gun fight.


28 posted on 09/19/2015 8:42:58 PM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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[[fired a shot that went just wide of my client’s hip,” Cravens said.Cravens said his client used his cane to knock the...]]

“Client”? What the hell does this fella need a lawyer for? The intruder tried to shoot him- He disarmed the schmuck, and shot him instead- What’s the problem?


29 posted on 09/19/2015 8:52:07 PM PDT by Bob434
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I used to be a pacifist.


30 posted on 09/19/2015 9:06:30 PM PDT by BBell
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"Sticks, batons, and any long, relatively hard object can be used very effectively as an improvised weapon."


35 posted on 09/19/2015 10:00:41 PM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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When I was at Domino’s, I survived a 2 on 1 criminal assault. The 4 cell MagLite I carried at the time proved to be less than effective as a defensive tool. When taken and used on me, the perps found it to be less than effective as an offensive tool.


52 posted on 09/20/2015 4:34:27 AM PDT by real saxophonist (YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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Police have stopped using durable flashlights as impact weapons because so many suspects were being killed or severely injured.

Unbelievably stupid. Now they carry these darling, tiny, useless LED flashlights.

54 posted on 09/20/2015 5:39:14 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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Cravens said his client used his cane to knock the gun out of the intruder’s hand. According to authorities, the homeowner fired a fatal shot from that gun.

I did not know that Chuck Norris lived in New Mexico.

56 posted on 09/20/2015 6:22:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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