The Flash Mob Attack - How To Defend?

 

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - All eight suspects are in custody after a brutal attack in Five Points early Monday morning which left the teenage victim in critical condition, according to Columbia police.

CHICAGO, IL (WLS) -- The recent series of mob-style attacks on Chicago's Near North Side mark the first major hurdles facing Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago's new police superintendent Garry McCarthy. The latest attack happened Tuesday night. A witness tells WGN 15-20 teens beat and robbed two people at Chicago and Wabash

AKRON, OH -- Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world'' as they confronted Marshall and his family.

NO. VIRGINIA -- Three people were beaten by mobs in Northern Virginia in two separate incidents that occurred within five minutes of each other on Saturday night, authorities said.

These events have consumed the discussion at most self-defense focused websites in the last few weeks.  Accompanying the discussion is the usual hand wringing regarding what to do if one is beset by a gang of thugs bent on your destruction. Well, I have my views on this which will no doubt shock the senses of the Doodley Doo Rights of the gun world.

First, this was not some group of young teenaged honor students.  In all cases it was a group of urban thugs.  Second, they were not there to practice for their debate on the ills of capitalism.  Third, they understand only one thing...violence.  So understand who they are and be ready to speak their language.

1).  Don't go to stupid places with stupid people to do stupid things.   Simple but often ignored.  Listen, we do not live in a fair world where everyone respects everyone else.  Nor where everyone gets along.  You may in fact be totally color-blind in a socio-ethnic sort of way, but not everyone is.  So even if your liberal sociology professor thinks it is a cool thing to take a stroll at midnight through a ethnically homogenous part of town (different ethnicity that you), it is still a stupid idea. 

 

 

2).  Always have a method to defend yourself.  Even if it is not socially acceptable, or in line with the rules of the day, having some sort of weapon is essential.  Right about now, some of the Doodley Doo Rights are screaming that I am telling people to violate the law.  Well, go and google these stories.  Look at the faces of the victims...specially the one on life support right now.  Put yourself in their shoes.  Your choice is to arm yourself in violation of the rules, or to take the raping, beating and robbery?  What would you choose?

3).  Avoid if you can.  If you are standing around and see a group of twenty young urban thugs about two blocks away yelling, "kill whitey", and looking at your reflection in the store window, realize that you have not been in the sun in a while, here is my advice - "RUN".  If it looks like trouble, it probably is.  The gang is not there to debate the effects of american corporate expansion on the development of the urban neighborhoods with you.

4).  If you cannot avoid, attack...brutally and viciously.  This is not the time to worry about some goofball fear monger's articles about being sued, nor about anything of the sort.  It is time to deploy your weapons and attack the leaders.  Listen folks, there is disparity of force by the sheer number against you and the knowledge you have based on these prior flash mob events. 

If you have limited yourself by the rules and only have a knife, be certain you know how to use it.  Make it big enough that it will cause extreme pain and bleeding when you stab the attacker.  This is not the place for a legally carried tomato peeler that is two inches or less.  You need a fixed or folding knife that is at least 4 inches long. 

When the time comes, do not flash the knife like you are some crocodile dundee type guy ("that's not a knife").  Stab the first man deep and hard in his face and move to the next guy and repeat the exercise.  Do the same to anyone within reach.  When their buddies reel back, screaming in horror and pain, holding their bloodied faces with eyeballs hanging out, it will create hesitation.  Use that time to disengage. 

If you have a pistol, please make sure it is a modern high capacity weapon with a couple of spare magazines in your belt.  The Suarez International company gun, a Glock 17 with three magazines, yields a sum total of 52 rounds.  Figure three rounds per man, and you can reduce an angry mob of panga swinging killers into a fleeing group of bloodied bad guys.  Draw it and yell, "Get The F*** Back!" If they do, run away.  If they do not, shoot the first man in the face. The rest will take care of itself.

It really is very simple.  Might you get into trouble?  Sure, but being in jail because you stabbed three guys on the street is far better than being in the hospital having holes drilled into your head to relieve the pressure on your brain while the female members of your party are getting HIV exams in the next room.  The only way to defeat brutality is with extreme and greater brutality.

Keep that in mind, arm yourself properly and if it comes, be brutal.

Comments

[TedG]

Excellent commentary (as usual). I wish more good folks would adopt this attitude.

[RWB]

I can't agree more. While the Sheeple of the world will cry about how "you can't shoot unarmed men" or "they were just kids", those unarmed kids still present a very serious threat of "serious bodily injury or death" (as the Use of Force Policy at our agency reads). Avoid the situation as much as possible, but if they decide that they absolutely have to engage with you, reciprocate loudly!! If, after-the-fact, I have to move to avoid their so-called "retribution", so be it, but I'm still alive to move and my girlfriend just has to take a shower to wash-off their blood and brains. I'll buy her a new dress if the stains won't come out.

[William Legg]

Excellent as always Sir...living in the ChicagoLand area, I have heard of these attacks and recognized some of the facts the press left out...still, your advice is spot on...the old adage for law enforcement is just as pertinent here..."Better to be judged by 12 than carried by six."...and as an LEO I have to say, I agree with what you write, say and do and don't find you the enemy...glad you can enlighten those who care to listen and to keep those who feel already enlightened on their toes.
Thank you,
Bill

[Mark Fischer]

amen great advice

[Kansas Volunteer]

Thanks, Gabe. I found this very timely and relevant -- answers to some questions I've been asking myself lately.

[Andy45cal]

Sound advice. Sobering, but sound.

[Angel Alvarez]

Well said Gabe.

[Hal Deese]

Damn, I like this guy.

[Jim]

Exactly what I've been trying to convince some people of accepting into their lifestyle and thinking. Alas, when it comes to stupid people... you'd think there'd be enough in the world already, but, no... "the police will protect me."
UGH!

[Mike Erwin]

Gabe, great information and advice. The warning to be prepared is needed more today than I can remember in my lifetime. Thanks for sharing.

Mike