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Conflict Avoidance

Talyn

Talyn

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Avoiding conflict should be everyone’s preference … but if you carry a gun, it also becomes your responsibility when it comes to taking action with a defensive firearm. A myriad of laws and beliefs on this topic exist around the U.S. Most of them revolve around people asking what they “can” do in regard to the letter of the law

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Avoiding conflict should be everyone’s preference but if you carry a gun, it also becomes your responsibility. Personal defense expert Rob Pincus explains.
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I will—and have!—bent over backwards to avoid conflict; if I ever have to use lethal force in defense, I want to be able to look in a mirror afterwards and said I did everything I could to avoid it.

Being polite, ratcheting it down a notch or two…even an apology (even when you don’t feel you’re in the wrong) can go a long, long ways in keeping a situation from going egg-shaped.

It’s worked for me.
 
Hi,

Mr.W. said:
Never will there be an occasion when avoidance is my final thought.
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That actually makes perfect sense, a very concise way to phrase it. Let me see if you're thinking along the same lines as I am.

Practice avoidance until you no longer can. If the imminent threat is unavoidable, then go beast mode. If avoidance is your last thought, then that may be your last thought on this earth. What's the saying? "I don't get to decide when to use lethal force to defend myself. Someone else will make that decision and won't let me know until the last minute."


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
Trying to avoid conflict is great…if it works. We were taught “verbal judo”, but a lot of the people I had to deal with…it didn’t. Lots of bad, or wannabe bad, folks are looking for trouble. What you say or do has little impact on them. Now if you are talking parking disputes or the like, go for it. But watch the eyes and the hands. Or retire to a small town in S. Utah like I did.
 
3L120 said:
“verbal judo”,
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:rolleyes:
We had to endure about 5 years of training and retraining on this crap, until someone convinced The Powers That Be that their system was better and that's what the state should be spending $ on.
Maybe it was just that I worked in a prison, but after various "hug-a-thug" systems, I found being honest, meaning and doing what you say, and speaking the language of the natives worked best.
" If you even wiggle, I'm going to dump ya"
" If you do that your screwed. No matter how many guards it takes in the end your screwed and the more guards the more screwed and the longer it will last, so why not just do X, but it's up to you I don't care either way"
" Yup that's not right, I'll see what I can do and get back to ya, but don't hold your breath" (Never promise unless you absolutely 100% know you can do it.)
If you screw up apologize, (and make it right) just don't make a habit of doing either.

I try to avoid conflict at all costs; however, I try to be prepared for it not to work.
 
BassCliff said:
Hi,



That actually makes perfect sense, a very concise way to phrase it. Let me see if you're thinking along the same lines as I am.

Practice avoidance until you no longer can. If the imminent threat is unavoidable, then go beast mode. If avoidance is your last thought, then that may be your last thought on this earth. What's the saying? "I don't get to decide when to use lethal force to defend myself. Someone else will make that decision and won't let me know until the last minute."


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
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That pretty much says it!!!
 
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