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Received this from a good friend of mine. Great article and well worth the read. By, Larry Mudgett
Why Surrender Is Never an Option,
The first phase of surrender is failing to be armed, trained and
committed to fight. We are prepared to surrender when we are unprepared to resist. The second phase of
surrender is failing to be alert. You must see trouble coming in order to have time to respond. The warning may
be less than one second but it will be there and it must be recognized and acted upon immediately.
The Third phase of surrender is giving up your weapons.
The last phase of surrender is up to the monsters who have taken control of your life and perhaps the lives of
your loved ones. The last phase of surrender is out of your hands.
Surrender during war
During the American Revolution 12,000 Colonists captured by the British died in captivity on prison ships,
while only 8,000 died in battle. Had the 12,000 who surrendered continued to fight, many would have survived
and they could have done great damage to the British and likely shortened the war.
Civil War prisoners were treated so badly that some 50,000 died in captivity. More Americans have been killed
by Americans than by any foreign army in any war. Six hundred and eighteen thousand Americans died in the
Civil War.
As many as 18,000 captured American and Pilipino prisoners died or were murdered at the hands of the
Japanese during the six days of the "Bataan Death March." Had most of these soldiers slipped into the jungle
and fought as guerrillas they could have tied up elements of the Japanese Army for months or years and perhaps
more of them would have survived the war.
Of the Americans who actually reached Japanese prison camps during the war, nearly 50,000 died in captivity.
That is more than 10 percent of all the American military deaths in the entire war in both the Pacific and
European theaters combined.
In addition to the 50,000 captured Americans who died in Japanese prison camps an additional 20,000 were
murdered before reaching a prison camp. If those 70,000 Americans had continued to fight, they could have
provided time for the United States to build and maneuyer its forces, perhaps shortening the war and saving
even more lives. Some of them would have likely survived the war. If they had all died in battle their fate would
have been no worse.
During the early stages of the "Battle of the Bulge" American soldiers were massacred by the German troops
who captured them.
During the Vietnam conflict many American Prisoners Of War were tortured daily for years by the Communist
North Vietnamese. Many Americans died during the process. Only Officers (Airmen) held in North Vietnam
were ever repakiated. Enlisted Americans captured in South Viet Nam were routinely tortured, mutilated and
murdered by the Communists. As a combat soldier and knowing my fate should I be captured, I was committed
to fighting to the death. I made specific plans to force the enemy to kill me rather than allow myself to be
captured.
In recent years, American troops captured by Islamic terrorists groups have virtualy all been tortured and
murdered in gruesome fashion. If I were fighting in the Middle East, I would make a similar vow and plan to
fight to the death. Under no circumstances would I allow myself to be captured by our Islamic enemies.
Death by Government
RJ Rummel, who wrote the book, "Death by Government' states that prior to the 20th Century; 170 million
civilians were murdered by their own governments. Historians tell us that during the 20th Century perhaps as
many as 200 million civilians were murdered by their own governments.
Some of the Nations where the mass murder of civilians occurred during the 20th Century include Russia,
Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, The Congo, Uganda, Armenia Vietnam, Cambodia, Nigeri4 Laos,
China, Cuba, Manchuria, Iraq, Iran, Biafra, Rwanda and many others. The slaughter of civilians by governments
appears to be as common as not.
Most of these slaughters were only made possible by disarming the victims before killing them. Had these
people resisted, their fate would have been no worse and perhaps better. Resistance is much more difficult after
the government has already taken the means of resistance away from the people. Planned genocide has been the
primary reason for weapon confiscation throughout history.
Jews and others who surrendered to the Nazis were murdered in slave labor camps by the millions. Had all the
Jews in Europe resisted when the Nazis started rounding them up they could have made the Nazis pay an
enormous price for the holocaust. The fact that Hitler confiscated guns in 1936 made resistance far less feasible.
Had the Jews in Germany resisted, the outcome may have been the same but the world would have learned
about the holocaust years earlier and may have intervened. Most people would prefer to die fighting and trying
to kill their oppressor, than be taken off to a death camp and starved to death or murdered in a gas chamber.
William Ayers, former leader of the Terrorist organization "The Weather Undergroumd," and close friend of
Barack Obama told his followers in the Weather Underground, "When we (Communist Revolutionaries) take
over the United States, we will have to kill 25 million Americans." He was referring to those who would never
submit to a Communist takeover. Those who would refuse to deny and reject the Constitution would have to be
murdered. If this sounds impossible, remember that Genocide by Government was the leading cause of death in
the last Century.
Surrendering to Criminals
The "Onion Field Murder" in California was a wakeup call to Law Enforcement Officers everywhere. On March
9,1963, two LAPD Officers were taken prisoner by two criminals. The Officers submitted to capture and gave
up their weapons. They were driven to an onion field outside of Bakersfield.
One Officer was murdered while the other Officer managed to escape in a hail of gunfire. The surviving Officer
suffered serious psychological problems, having been unable to save his partner. As a result of this incident, the
LAPD policy became, "You will fight no matter how bad things are." "You will never ever surrender your
weapons or yourself to a criminal."
Consider the Ogden, Utah record store murders. Read the book if you do not know the story. The manner in
which the criminals murdered their young victims cannot be described here. Resistance might have been futile.
Compliance was definitely and absolutely futile.
The courts in this country have ruled that the police have no legal obligation to protect anyone. Why do Law
Enforcement Officials always tell civilians not to resist a criminal, while they tell their Officers to always resist
and never surrender? Police administrators fear being sued by a civilian victim who gets hurt resisting.
Furthermore, the police, like all government agencies derive their power by fostering dependence.
According to Professor John Lott's study on the relationship between guns and crime, a victim who resists with
a firearm is less likely to be hurt or killed than a victim who cooperates with his attacker. His book is titled
"More Guns, Less Crime."
The Doctor and his family in Connecticut complied and cooperated, meeting every demand ofthe home
invasion robbers to whom they had surrendered. The Doctors wife and daughters were tortured, raped, doused
with gasoline and burned alive. How did surrender and cooperation work out for them?
In another home invasion robbery, a kindly couple with 9 "adopted, special needs children," surrendered to the
robbers. The victims opened their safe and did not resist in atty way. When the robbers where finished
ransacking the home and terrifying the children, they shot both parents in the head several times before leaving.
How did surrender and complete cooperation work out for them?
Handing over your life by surrendering to someone who is in the process of committing a violent crime against
you is a form of suicide. Some survive but many do not. The monster gets to decide for you.
We have heard brutalized victims say, "lhe robber said that he would not hurt us if we cooperated." Why would
you believe anything that someone who is committing a crime against you says? He will be lying if he speaks.
As we say in law enforcement, "If a criminal's lips are moving while he is speaking, he is lying." Criminals by
definition are dishonest and should never be trusted or believed.
You have no doubt heard friends say, I would not resist a criminal, after all why would he kill me? This is stupid
and naive. In law enforcement, we call these people "Victims by Choice" (VBC). There could be a long list of
reasons why a criminal would kill you despite your cooperation.
You may be of a different race, thus a different tribe. Only members of his tribe are actually human in his mind.
He may feel hatred toward you because you have more than he does. Gratification from being in a position of
total power is reason enough for some.
Criminals are sometimes members of a Satanic Cult who worship death such as the "Night Stalker" in
California. Eliminating a potential witness is often cited as a reason to kill a victim, Sometimes criminals simply
enjoy causing suffering and death. There are people who are in fact, pure evil. I have heard criminals say, "I
killed her just to watch her die."
A victim who begs for mercy can give his attacker a tremendous feeling of power which many criminals seem to
enjoy. You cannot expect mercy from someone who does not know what mercy is.
Resist!
We each have a duty to ourselves, our loved ones, our neighbors, our community, our city, our state and our
country to resist criminals. Reasoning with a thug who believes that his failures are because of people just like
you is not likely to be helpful. Pleading with a terrorist who has been taught from birth that his salvation
depends on murdering people like you is a doomed plan. Resist!
Resist! His gun may not be real. After you are tied up it will not matter. His gun may not be loaded. After you
are tied up it will not matter. He may not know how to operate his gun. After you are tied up it will not matter.
Resist!
Statistically if you run and your assailant shoots at you he will miss. Statistically if you run and he shoots and
hits you, you will not die. Bad guys shooting at the police miss 90 percent of the time. The odds are on your
side. Better to die fighting in place than to be tied up, doused with gasoline and burned alive. There are things
worse than death. Surrender to a criminal or a terrorist and you will learn what they are. Resist!
If you resist with a commitment to win you may well prevail, especially if you are armed and trained. If you lose
it is still better to die fighting in place than to be taken prisoner and have your head cut off with a dull knife
while your screams gurgle through your own blood as we have witnessed on numerous videos from the'Islamic
practitioners of peace," as well as the Mexican drug cartels.
Some who have refused to surrender.
History is filled with brave people who refused to surrender. Some of these men and woman have won their
battles despite what seemed to be insurmountable odds. Others have gone down fighting and avoided being
tortured to death. Some fought to the death to help or save others. Many have fought to the death for an idea or a
belief.
When General Santa Ana (also the President of Mexico at the time) ordered 180 "Texicans" to surrender the
Alamo, Col. Travis answered with "a cannon shot and a rebel yell." Eventually General Santa Ana was able to
build his troop strength to ten thousand. The Mexicans then swarmed the defenders and killed them all.
The battle of the Alamo delayed the Mexican Army long enough for Sam Huston to build his Texican Army,
which met and defeated the Mexican Army and captured General Santa Ana. General Santa Ana traded Texas
for his life and the sacrifices of the Alamo defenders changed history.
Frank Luke was a heroic aviator in WW1 Shot down and wounded he refused to surrender when confronted by
a German patrol. He killed 4 German soldiers with his 191I Pistol before being killed. Luke was posthumously
awarded the Medal of Honor.
When his unit was pinned down by German Machine Guns and all of the Officers and non commissioned
officers in his company were killed or wounded, Alvin York never considered surrendering. Instead, he attacked
hundreds of German soldiers killing about 25 with his rifle and pistol and then captured 132 others by himself!
Most of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (Poland) surrendered to the German Army. They were taken off to death
camps and murdered. Between 400 and 1,000 Jews refused to surrender and armed with only a few pistols,
revolvers and rifles, they held off the German Army for three months before dying in battle.
During the "Battle of the Bulge," the 101st Airborne was surrounded by the German Amy and ordered to
surrender. Faced with overwhelming odds, the Commanding Officer of the 10lst sent this reply to the Germans.
"Nuts." The Americans refused to surrender and they stopped the German advance. Most of the Americans
troops survived.
On Sept 2,2010,40 armed criminals took over and robbed a train in India. Some of the robbers had guns, others
used knives and clubs. When they began to disrobe an 18 year old girl for the purpose of gang raping her, one of
the passengers decided to fight. He was a 35 year old retired Gurkha soldier. He drew his Khukasri Knife and
attacked the 40 robbers. He killed three of the robbers and wounded 8 more despite his being wounded in this 20
minute fight. The remaining criminals fled for their lives leaving their stolen loot and eleven comrades dead or
wounded on the floor of the train. The eight wounded robbers were arrested.
How does one man defeat 40? How does he summon the courage to fight such odds? He utilized all of the
Principles of Personal Defense: Alertness, Decisiveness, Aggressiveness, Speed, Coolness, Ruthlessness, and
Surprise. He was skilled in the use of his weapon. Most importantly, He refused to be a victim and allow evil to
triumph!
If this one inspirational soldier can defeat 40 opponents using his knife, it would seem that we should all be able
to defeat a group of armed criminals by using our firearms if we are professionally trained as was this heroic
Gurkha soldier.
Final thoughts
How will you respond if you are confronted by evil as some of us have been in the past and some of us will be
in the future? If you have not decided ahead of time what you will do, you will likely do nothing. Those who
fight back often win and survive. Those who surrender never win and often die a horrible death. Have you made
your decision? Remember, no decision is a decision to do nothing.
Mudgett is a long time Rangemaster and Instructor at GUNSITE Larry and his wife
Stacey also run classes in Utah through their own school, MARKSMANSHIP MATTERS. Larry retired from the LAPD
after nearly 35 years where he served as the Chief Firearms Instructor at the LA Police Academy for I 3 years
and the Chief Firearms Instructor and team member for IAPD SWAT for 14 years. Larry also served as an
Infantry Light Weapons Sergeant in the First Air Cavalry in Viet Nam 1967-1968. Larry trained the first USMC
Special Operations Training Group at Camp Pendleton and was an adjunct firearms and hostage rescue
instructor for the DOE Central Training Academy for 10 years. He currently teaches Rifle, Carbine, Pistol,
Double Action Revolver and Single Action Revolver.
Learn more at marksmanshipmatters.com
Why Surrender Is Never an Option,
The first phase of surrender is failing to be armed, trained and
committed to fight. We are prepared to surrender when we are unprepared to resist. The second phase of
surrender is failing to be alert. You must see trouble coming in order to have time to respond. The warning may
be less than one second but it will be there and it must be recognized and acted upon immediately.
The Third phase of surrender is giving up your weapons.
The last phase of surrender is up to the monsters who have taken control of your life and perhaps the lives of
your loved ones. The last phase of surrender is out of your hands.
Surrender during war
During the American Revolution 12,000 Colonists captured by the British died in captivity on prison ships,
while only 8,000 died in battle. Had the 12,000 who surrendered continued to fight, many would have survived
and they could have done great damage to the British and likely shortened the war.
Civil War prisoners were treated so badly that some 50,000 died in captivity. More Americans have been killed
by Americans than by any foreign army in any war. Six hundred and eighteen thousand Americans died in the
Civil War.
As many as 18,000 captured American and Pilipino prisoners died or were murdered at the hands of the
Japanese during the six days of the "Bataan Death March." Had most of these soldiers slipped into the jungle
and fought as guerrillas they could have tied up elements of the Japanese Army for months or years and perhaps
more of them would have survived the war.
Of the Americans who actually reached Japanese prison camps during the war, nearly 50,000 died in captivity.
That is more than 10 percent of all the American military deaths in the entire war in both the Pacific and
European theaters combined.
In addition to the 50,000 captured Americans who died in Japanese prison camps an additional 20,000 were
murdered before reaching a prison camp. If those 70,000 Americans had continued to fight, they could have
provided time for the United States to build and maneuyer its forces, perhaps shortening the war and saving
even more lives. Some of them would have likely survived the war. If they had all died in battle their fate would
have been no worse.
During the early stages of the "Battle of the Bulge" American soldiers were massacred by the German troops
who captured them.
During the Vietnam conflict many American Prisoners Of War were tortured daily for years by the Communist
North Vietnamese. Many Americans died during the process. Only Officers (Airmen) held in North Vietnam
were ever repakiated. Enlisted Americans captured in South Viet Nam were routinely tortured, mutilated and
murdered by the Communists. As a combat soldier and knowing my fate should I be captured, I was committed
to fighting to the death. I made specific plans to force the enemy to kill me rather than allow myself to be
captured.
In recent years, American troops captured by Islamic terrorists groups have virtualy all been tortured and
murdered in gruesome fashion. If I were fighting in the Middle East, I would make a similar vow and plan to
fight to the death. Under no circumstances would I allow myself to be captured by our Islamic enemies.
Death by Government
RJ Rummel, who wrote the book, "Death by Government' states that prior to the 20th Century; 170 million
civilians were murdered by their own governments. Historians tell us that during the 20th Century perhaps as
many as 200 million civilians were murdered by their own governments.
Some of the Nations where the mass murder of civilians occurred during the 20th Century include Russia,
Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, The Congo, Uganda, Armenia Vietnam, Cambodia, Nigeri4 Laos,
China, Cuba, Manchuria, Iraq, Iran, Biafra, Rwanda and many others. The slaughter of civilians by governments
appears to be as common as not.
Most of these slaughters were only made possible by disarming the victims before killing them. Had these
people resisted, their fate would have been no worse and perhaps better. Resistance is much more difficult after
the government has already taken the means of resistance away from the people. Planned genocide has been the
primary reason for weapon confiscation throughout history.
Jews and others who surrendered to the Nazis were murdered in slave labor camps by the millions. Had all the
Jews in Europe resisted when the Nazis started rounding them up they could have made the Nazis pay an
enormous price for the holocaust. The fact that Hitler confiscated guns in 1936 made resistance far less feasible.
Had the Jews in Germany resisted, the outcome may have been the same but the world would have learned
about the holocaust years earlier and may have intervened. Most people would prefer to die fighting and trying
to kill their oppressor, than be taken off to a death camp and starved to death or murdered in a gas chamber.
William Ayers, former leader of the Terrorist organization "The Weather Undergroumd," and close friend of
Barack Obama told his followers in the Weather Underground, "When we (Communist Revolutionaries) take
over the United States, we will have to kill 25 million Americans." He was referring to those who would never
submit to a Communist takeover. Those who would refuse to deny and reject the Constitution would have to be
murdered. If this sounds impossible, remember that Genocide by Government was the leading cause of death in
the last Century.
Surrendering to Criminals
The "Onion Field Murder" in California was a wakeup call to Law Enforcement Officers everywhere. On March
9,1963, two LAPD Officers were taken prisoner by two criminals. The Officers submitted to capture and gave
up their weapons. They were driven to an onion field outside of Bakersfield.
One Officer was murdered while the other Officer managed to escape in a hail of gunfire. The surviving Officer
suffered serious psychological problems, having been unable to save his partner. As a result of this incident, the
LAPD policy became, "You will fight no matter how bad things are." "You will never ever surrender your
weapons or yourself to a criminal."
Consider the Ogden, Utah record store murders. Read the book if you do not know the story. The manner in
which the criminals murdered their young victims cannot be described here. Resistance might have been futile.
Compliance was definitely and absolutely futile.
The courts in this country have ruled that the police have no legal obligation to protect anyone. Why do Law
Enforcement Officials always tell civilians not to resist a criminal, while they tell their Officers to always resist
and never surrender? Police administrators fear being sued by a civilian victim who gets hurt resisting.
Furthermore, the police, like all government agencies derive their power by fostering dependence.
According to Professor John Lott's study on the relationship between guns and crime, a victim who resists with
a firearm is less likely to be hurt or killed than a victim who cooperates with his attacker. His book is titled
"More Guns, Less Crime."
The Doctor and his family in Connecticut complied and cooperated, meeting every demand ofthe home
invasion robbers to whom they had surrendered. The Doctors wife and daughters were tortured, raped, doused
with gasoline and burned alive. How did surrender and cooperation work out for them?
In another home invasion robbery, a kindly couple with 9 "adopted, special needs children," surrendered to the
robbers. The victims opened their safe and did not resist in atty way. When the robbers where finished
ransacking the home and terrifying the children, they shot both parents in the head several times before leaving.
How did surrender and complete cooperation work out for them?
Handing over your life by surrendering to someone who is in the process of committing a violent crime against
you is a form of suicide. Some survive but many do not. The monster gets to decide for you.
We have heard brutalized victims say, "lhe robber said that he would not hurt us if we cooperated." Why would
you believe anything that someone who is committing a crime against you says? He will be lying if he speaks.
As we say in law enforcement, "If a criminal's lips are moving while he is speaking, he is lying." Criminals by
definition are dishonest and should never be trusted or believed.
You have no doubt heard friends say, I would not resist a criminal, after all why would he kill me? This is stupid
and naive. In law enforcement, we call these people "Victims by Choice" (VBC). There could be a long list of
reasons why a criminal would kill you despite your cooperation.
You may be of a different race, thus a different tribe. Only members of his tribe are actually human in his mind.
He may feel hatred toward you because you have more than he does. Gratification from being in a position of
total power is reason enough for some.
Criminals are sometimes members of a Satanic Cult who worship death such as the "Night Stalker" in
California. Eliminating a potential witness is often cited as a reason to kill a victim, Sometimes criminals simply
enjoy causing suffering and death. There are people who are in fact, pure evil. I have heard criminals say, "I
killed her just to watch her die."
A victim who begs for mercy can give his attacker a tremendous feeling of power which many criminals seem to
enjoy. You cannot expect mercy from someone who does not know what mercy is.
Resist!
We each have a duty to ourselves, our loved ones, our neighbors, our community, our city, our state and our
country to resist criminals. Reasoning with a thug who believes that his failures are because of people just like
you is not likely to be helpful. Pleading with a terrorist who has been taught from birth that his salvation
depends on murdering people like you is a doomed plan. Resist!
Resist! His gun may not be real. After you are tied up it will not matter. His gun may not be loaded. After you
are tied up it will not matter. He may not know how to operate his gun. After you are tied up it will not matter.
Resist!
Statistically if you run and your assailant shoots at you he will miss. Statistically if you run and he shoots and
hits you, you will not die. Bad guys shooting at the police miss 90 percent of the time. The odds are on your
side. Better to die fighting in place than to be tied up, doused with gasoline and burned alive. There are things
worse than death. Surrender to a criminal or a terrorist and you will learn what they are. Resist!
If you resist with a commitment to win you may well prevail, especially if you are armed and trained. If you lose
it is still better to die fighting in place than to be taken prisoner and have your head cut off with a dull knife
while your screams gurgle through your own blood as we have witnessed on numerous videos from the'Islamic
practitioners of peace," as well as the Mexican drug cartels.
Some who have refused to surrender.
History is filled with brave people who refused to surrender. Some of these men and woman have won their
battles despite what seemed to be insurmountable odds. Others have gone down fighting and avoided being
tortured to death. Some fought to the death to help or save others. Many have fought to the death for an idea or a
belief.
When General Santa Ana (also the President of Mexico at the time) ordered 180 "Texicans" to surrender the
Alamo, Col. Travis answered with "a cannon shot and a rebel yell." Eventually General Santa Ana was able to
build his troop strength to ten thousand. The Mexicans then swarmed the defenders and killed them all.
The battle of the Alamo delayed the Mexican Army long enough for Sam Huston to build his Texican Army,
which met and defeated the Mexican Army and captured General Santa Ana. General Santa Ana traded Texas
for his life and the sacrifices of the Alamo defenders changed history.
Frank Luke was a heroic aviator in WW1 Shot down and wounded he refused to surrender when confronted by
a German patrol. He killed 4 German soldiers with his 191I Pistol before being killed. Luke was posthumously
awarded the Medal of Honor.
When his unit was pinned down by German Machine Guns and all of the Officers and non commissioned
officers in his company were killed or wounded, Alvin York never considered surrendering. Instead, he attacked
hundreds of German soldiers killing about 25 with his rifle and pistol and then captured 132 others by himself!
Most of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (Poland) surrendered to the German Army. They were taken off to death
camps and murdered. Between 400 and 1,000 Jews refused to surrender and armed with only a few pistols,
revolvers and rifles, they held off the German Army for three months before dying in battle.
During the "Battle of the Bulge," the 101st Airborne was surrounded by the German Amy and ordered to
surrender. Faced with overwhelming odds, the Commanding Officer of the 10lst sent this reply to the Germans.
"Nuts." The Americans refused to surrender and they stopped the German advance. Most of the Americans
troops survived.
On Sept 2,2010,40 armed criminals took over and robbed a train in India. Some of the robbers had guns, others
used knives and clubs. When they began to disrobe an 18 year old girl for the purpose of gang raping her, one of
the passengers decided to fight. He was a 35 year old retired Gurkha soldier. He drew his Khukasri Knife and
attacked the 40 robbers. He killed three of the robbers and wounded 8 more despite his being wounded in this 20
minute fight. The remaining criminals fled for their lives leaving their stolen loot and eleven comrades dead or
wounded on the floor of the train. The eight wounded robbers were arrested.
How does one man defeat 40? How does he summon the courage to fight such odds? He utilized all of the
Principles of Personal Defense: Alertness, Decisiveness, Aggressiveness, Speed, Coolness, Ruthlessness, and
Surprise. He was skilled in the use of his weapon. Most importantly, He refused to be a victim and allow evil to
triumph!
If this one inspirational soldier can defeat 40 opponents using his knife, it would seem that we should all be able
to defeat a group of armed criminals by using our firearms if we are professionally trained as was this heroic
Gurkha soldier.
Final thoughts
How will you respond if you are confronted by evil as some of us have been in the past and some of us will be
in the future? If you have not decided ahead of time what you will do, you will likely do nothing. Those who
fight back often win and survive. Those who surrender never win and often die a horrible death. Have you made
your decision? Remember, no decision is a decision to do nothing.
Mudgett is a long time Rangemaster and Instructor at GUNSITE Larry and his wife
Stacey also run classes in Utah through their own school, MARKSMANSHIP MATTERS. Larry retired from the LAPD
after nearly 35 years where he served as the Chief Firearms Instructor at the LA Police Academy for I 3 years
and the Chief Firearms Instructor and team member for IAPD SWAT for 14 years. Larry also served as an
Infantry Light Weapons Sergeant in the First Air Cavalry in Viet Nam 1967-1968. Larry trained the first USMC
Special Operations Training Group at Camp Pendleton and was an adjunct firearms and hostage rescue
instructor for the DOE Central Training Academy for 10 years. He currently teaches Rifle, Carbine, Pistol,
Double Action Revolver and Single Action Revolver.
Learn more at marksmanshipmatters.com
Friday, November 9, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Received this from a friend. Don't necessarily agree with everything, but most of the information is pretty valid. FOR INFORMATION ON THE AUTHOR, AND THE VIDEO YOU CAN DO A SEARCH UNDER HIS NAME, JIM HIGGINBOTHAM, AND THE VIDEO IS ON U TUBE
The “Center Mass” Myth and Ending a
Gunfight
By Jim Higginbotham
Surviving a gunfight isn’t what you think it is.
Don’t let conventional wisdom get you killed. A well place
round to “center mass” in your attacker may not take him out of
the fight. Lots of people stay in the fight after “center mass” hits,
and some even win it. If you expect to win your gunfight, you
have to make sure that you have effectively ended the threat of
your attacker. One, two or even several well placed “center
mass” shots may not do what you think it will, and learning to
recognize this before you gunfight may save your life.
There is a self styled self defense “expert” under every rock, and
perhaps two behind every bush, these days. If you have a pet
theory on what might work on the street then you can probably
find a champion for that idea who actually charges people to
teach them that skill. But few of the experts out there have ever
been in gunfights, and even fewer have studied real gunfights to
see how things really work out when the bullets really fly for
blood.
There are more misconceptions out there than I can cover in one
article but the one that probably gets to me the most, even over
all the caliber wars that rage interminably in the print and cyber
media, is the nearly universal acceptance that shooting a
miscreant “center mass” with ________(fill in your favorite
make, model and caliber) shooting _________ (fill in your
favorite ammunition) hyper speed truck killer is practically
guaranteed to get the job done.
Having studied in this field from a number of decades, I have
run into plenty of cases where bullets did not do what folks
would have assumed. And I have now collected enough of these
that I think that rather than being anomalies, they are actually
closer to the norm. Center mass hits in a gunfight do not in most
cases end the fight. Erroneous assumptions can get you killed!
There is a well known video in training circles in which a
Highway Patrol officer shoots an armed subject 5 times “center
mass” (this is not my assessment but the statement of his
immediate supervisors which are interviewed on the full version
of the hour long tape) with his 4” .357 Magnum revolver firing
hollow point ammunition. All 5 hits failed to do the job and the
subject was able to fire one round which struck the officer in the
armpit. That round wondered around in the chest cavity and
found his heart. The officer unfortunately died at the scene and
his attacker is alive today.
In a class I conduct under the title “Fire For Effect” I start out by
showing a video of standoff in which a hostage taker is fired on
by police with .223 rifles and .40 caliber handguns. Throughout
the whole disturbing sequence, which lasts about 10 seconds, the
bad guy is hit multiple times in the torso with both rifle and
pistol rounds. You can see him place his non-firing hand to his
chest, clearly a lung is hit. However he is able to shoot his
hostage 3 times, not rapidly. The hostage, a trim female, is
active throughout the scene but later died from her wounds. In
this case both the attacker and the victim had “center mass” hits
that had no immediate effect.
I have accumulated confirmed incidents in which people have
been shot “center mass” up to 55 times with 9mm JHP
ammunition (the subject was hit 106 times, but 55 of those hits
were ruled by the coroner to be each lethal in and of themselves)
before he went down. During training at the FBI Academy we
were told of a case in which agents shot a bank robber 65 times
with 9mm, .223 and 00 buckshot – he survived! These are not
rare cases. The happen quite often.
If a gunfight ever comes your way, your attacker may fall to a
hit to the liver and he may not. He may fall to two or three hits
to the kidneys, intestines or spleen, but he may not. He will
certainly be in bad health. He likely will not survive, but what he
does for the next several seconds to a few minutes is not
guaranteed because you hit him “center mass.”
Heart and lung hits don’t statistically fare much better. I have
three students and three other acquaintances who were all shot in
a lung at the outset of gunfights. The students came to me after
their fights to learn how to keep from getting shot again. Last
time I checked all of those people were still alive and the people
who shot them are still dead. Every one of them was able to
respond effectively after being shot “center mass”, one might
even say they were shot in the “A-zone”. And they were shot
with .38 Special (three of them), 9mm, .357 Magnum and 8mm
Mauser, so it’s not all about caliber. One of those was a Chicom
12.7 mm round! He lived next door to me for many years.
So, what’s a person to do? First off, realize that one shot, even a
fairly well placed shot may not do the job so don’t set there and
admire your handiwork or wait for it to take effect. But even two
hits may not get the job done!
After years of trying to get a grasp on this I have come to look at
the results of shooting a living breathing target – be it a human
attacker or a game animal – as falling into 3 or 4 categories.
They are :
1. Instant Collapse – this takes place 1 to 2 seconds from the
shot being fired
2. Rapid Collapse – this can take from 3 to 15 seconds and is
quite common.
3. Marginal Effect – this can even be a lethal hit but it takes
from 15 to 300 (yes 300!) or even more seconds.
4. The 4th is simply unacceptable and is a total failure.
The last category we don’t like to discuss but happens too often .
We saw it recently in Washington with a Center Mass hit from
an officer’s pistol and the subject was still walking around the
next day.
What is “effective” shooting? Sad to say, it is demanding. It is
also, I think, variable depending on the conditions. For example,
the robber armed with a scattergun who is standing 10 feet away
must be stopped “right now!” If you do not bring about Instant
Collapse someone may very well die…that someone may be
you!
On the other hand, if there is a gang banger launching bullets in
your general direction using un-aimed fire about 20 yards away
then a hit that brings about Rapid Collapse might do the job.
I cannot imagine a Marginally Effective result being very
desirable in any case, but it does buy you some time in some
cases.
How does this relate to hits? In order to achieve Instant Collapse
you must scramble the “circuitry” that keeps the bad guy on the
attack. That means the brain or spinal cord.
The head is not only a fairly difficult target to hit in the real
world – because it moves a lot – but it is also difficult to
penetrate and get a pistol bullet into the place it must be to be
effective. For normal purposes we might write off the head,
keeping it in reserve for very special circumstances.
The spine is not that easy to hit either. It isn’t large, and to be
effective the hit needs to be in the upper 1/3 of the spine or at a
point about level with the tip of the sternum. I think that is
around T11. But of course the huge problem is that it is hidden
by the rest of the body. We are the good guys, we don’t go
around shooting people in the back. So the exact location is
something that can only be learned through lots of practice on
3D targets. Your point of aim on the surface changes with the
angle at which the target is facing.
The bottom of the spine isn’t much use. I know of several
people shot in the pelvis. It did not break them down as many
theorize. I am not saying it doesn’t happen but in the only case I
know of in which it did the person who was “anchored” with a
.357 magnum to the pelvis killed the person that shot him – you
can shoot just fine from prone.
A shot, or preferably multiple shots to the heart and major
arteries above the heart (not below!) may achieve Rapid
Collapse, but not always. Officer Stacy Lim was shot in the
heart at contact distance with a .357 Magnum and is still alive
and her attacker is still dead! Score one for the good guys…or in
this case gals!
So now what constitutes Marginal Effectiveness? A hit to the
lungs! Even multiple hits to the lungs. Unfortunately though,
most often lung hits are effective in ending the fight because the
subject decides to quit the fight, not because he MUST. A
famous Colonel Louis LeGarde once wrote what is considered
“the” book on gunshot wounds. 65% of his patients shot through
the lungs – with rifles! – survived with the predominant
treatment being only bed rest!
Effective Practice and “Dynamic Response”
The goal of practice, one would think, is to make correct,
effective shooting techniques a matter of reflex, so that you
don’t have to think about what you are doing in a gunfight.
Most people will perform under stress at about 50 to 60% as
well as they do on the range…and that is if they practice a lot! If
they only go to the range once every other month that
performance level decreases dramatically. Shooting and
weapons handling are very perishable skills. Also folks tend to
practice the wrong stuff inadvertently. I put this in the
classification of “practicing getting killed” but that too is a topic
for another
day.
Movement and Variation doesen’t mean
innacurate shooting. In a real gunfight you and
your adversary will most likely
Let’s talks
about a basic
response, what I call “Dynamic Response.” Situations vary and
this is not meant to be a universal answer, just one that will work
for about 80% of scenarios.
It is pointless to stand still on the range and shoot a stationary
target, unless you simply want to polish up some marksmanship
fundamentals. That is a necessary part of learning to shoot. But
if you are practicing for a fight, then fight!
Some rules.
1. Don’t go to the range without a covering garment – unless
of course you always carry your gun exposed (no
comment).
2. Don’t practice drawing your gun fast – ever! – while
standing still.
Part of the Dynamic Response is to step off the line of attack (or
on rare occasions that are dependent on circumstances
backwards or forwards) and present the weapon with as much
alacrity as you can muster and engage the target with
overwhelming and accurate fire! By the way, never assume a
fight is completely over just because you canceled one threat.
Don’t practice “standing down” too quickly. We have a video
attached which will hopefully give you the right idea.
I wish there was a formula of how to stand and how to hold you
gun but there really isn’t. We don’t do “Weaver vs. Isosceles vs.
Modern Iso vs. whatever”. We don’t do “Thumbs Crossed vs.
be moving. Click here if you can’t see the video.
Thumbs Forward vs. Thumb Up…never mind.” Those are things
for you to work out on your own. You use what makes YOU
effective not what works for a guy who practices 50,000 rounds
the week before a big match (that is not an exaggeration).
Competitive shooters will throw out advice on what works for
them. It may not work for you.
There is also not “one true gun”. Your skill is far more
important that what you carry, within reason. We are not really
talking about “stopping power”, whatever that is, here but rather
effectiveness.
I can find no real measure – referred to by some as a
mathematical model – of stopping power or effectiveness. And I
have looked for 44 years now! Generally speaking I do see that
bigger holes (in the right place) are more effective than smaller
holes but the easy answer to that is just to shoot your smaller
gun more – “a big shot is just a little shot that kept shooting”.
True, I carry a .45 but that is because I am lazy and want to
shoot less. A good bullet in 9mm in the right place (the spine!)
will get the job done. If you hit the heart, 3 or 4 expanded 9mms
will do about what a .45 expanding bullet will do or one might
equal .45 ball….IF (note the big if) it penetrates. That is not
based on any formula, it is based on what I have found to
happen – sometimes real life does not make sense.
Practicing Dynamic Response means practicing with an open
mind. Circumstances in a real gunfight are unpredictable and the
more unpredictability you mix up into your practice the more
your brain will be preparing itself for a possible real gunfight.
In real life, your gunfight may be dark, cold, rainy, etc. The
subject may be anorexic (a lot of bad guys are not very healthy)
or he may be obese (effective penetration and stopping power of
your weapon). There are dozens of modifiers which change the
circumstance, most not under your control. My only advice on
this is what I learned from an old tanker: “Shoot until the target
changes shape or catches fire!” Vertical to horizontal is a shape
change, and putting that one more round into his chest at point
blank range may catch his clothes on fire, even without using
black powder.
We tell our military folks to be prepared to hit an enemy fighter
from 3-7 times with 5.56 ball, traveling at over 3,000 feet per
second. This approach sometimes worked, but I know of several
cases where it has not, even “center mass.”
With handguns, and with expanding bullets, it is even more
unpredictable, but through years of study I have developed a
general formula, subject to the above mentioned unpredictable
circumstances.
2-3 hits with a .45
4-6 with a .40
5-8 with a 9mm
With a revolver, the rounds are not necessarily more effective
but I would practice shooting 3 in a .38 or .357 merely because I
want 3 left for other threats. Not that those next three won’t
follow quickly if the target hasn’t changed shape around my
front sight blade. A .41, .44 or .45 Colt I would probably drop to
two. Once again, they are not that much more effective than a
.45 Auto but I don’t have the bullets to waste.
In any case, I want to stress the part that it is more about how
you shoot than what you shoot, within reason. It is also more
about the mindset and condition of the subject you are shooting
which is not under your control. Take control – buy good bullets
and put them where they count the most! And remember
“anyone worth shooting once is worth shooting a whole lot!”
(but please stop when the threat is cancelled, we don’t advocate
“finishing shots”).
Gunfights are ugly things. I don’t like to talk about the blood
and guts aspects of defending life any more than the next guy.
But it is our lives we are talking about here. By researching how
gunfights are fought, and more importantly, how gunfights are
won, it may give both of us the edge if a gunfight ever comes
our way. I hope to cover many of the points I have learned and
learned to train others in over the coming months. It isn’t as easy
to write about it as it is to teach it in person, but you can only
succeed if you are willing to try.
I hope you enjoy the ride.
Press on!
Jim
The “Center Mass” Myth and Ending a
Gunfight
By Jim Higginbotham
Surviving a gunfight isn’t what you think it is.
Don’t let conventional wisdom get you killed. A well place
round to “center mass” in your attacker may not take him out of
the fight. Lots of people stay in the fight after “center mass” hits,
and some even win it. If you expect to win your gunfight, you
have to make sure that you have effectively ended the threat of
your attacker. One, two or even several well placed “center
mass” shots may not do what you think it will, and learning to
recognize this before you gunfight may save your life.
There is a self styled self defense “expert” under every rock, and
perhaps two behind every bush, these days. If you have a pet
theory on what might work on the street then you can probably
find a champion for that idea who actually charges people to
teach them that skill. But few of the experts out there have ever
been in gunfights, and even fewer have studied real gunfights to
see how things really work out when the bullets really fly for
blood.
There are more misconceptions out there than I can cover in one
article but the one that probably gets to me the most, even over
all the caliber wars that rage interminably in the print and cyber
media, is the nearly universal acceptance that shooting a
miscreant “center mass” with ________(fill in your favorite
make, model and caliber) shooting _________ (fill in your
favorite ammunition) hyper speed truck killer is practically
guaranteed to get the job done.
Having studied in this field from a number of decades, I have
run into plenty of cases where bullets did not do what folks
would have assumed. And I have now collected enough of these
that I think that rather than being anomalies, they are actually
closer to the norm. Center mass hits in a gunfight do not in most
cases end the fight. Erroneous assumptions can get you killed!
There is a well known video in training circles in which a
Highway Patrol officer shoots an armed subject 5 times “center
mass” (this is not my assessment but the statement of his
immediate supervisors which are interviewed on the full version
of the hour long tape) with his 4” .357 Magnum revolver firing
hollow point ammunition. All 5 hits failed to do the job and the
subject was able to fire one round which struck the officer in the
armpit. That round wondered around in the chest cavity and
found his heart. The officer unfortunately died at the scene and
his attacker is alive today.
In a class I conduct under the title “Fire For Effect” I start out by
showing a video of standoff in which a hostage taker is fired on
by police with .223 rifles and .40 caliber handguns. Throughout
the whole disturbing sequence, which lasts about 10 seconds, the
bad guy is hit multiple times in the torso with both rifle and
pistol rounds. You can see him place his non-firing hand to his
chest, clearly a lung is hit. However he is able to shoot his
hostage 3 times, not rapidly. The hostage, a trim female, is
active throughout the scene but later died from her wounds. In
this case both the attacker and the victim had “center mass” hits
that had no immediate effect.
I have accumulated confirmed incidents in which people have
been shot “center mass” up to 55 times with 9mm JHP
ammunition (the subject was hit 106 times, but 55 of those hits
were ruled by the coroner to be each lethal in and of themselves)
before he went down. During training at the FBI Academy we
were told of a case in which agents shot a bank robber 65 times
with 9mm, .223 and 00 buckshot – he survived! These are not
rare cases. The happen quite often.
If a gunfight ever comes your way, your attacker may fall to a
hit to the liver and he may not. He may fall to two or three hits
to the kidneys, intestines or spleen, but he may not. He will
certainly be in bad health. He likely will not survive, but what he
does for the next several seconds to a few minutes is not
guaranteed because you hit him “center mass.”
Heart and lung hits don’t statistically fare much better. I have
three students and three other acquaintances who were all shot in
a lung at the outset of gunfights. The students came to me after
their fights to learn how to keep from getting shot again. Last
time I checked all of those people were still alive and the people
who shot them are still dead. Every one of them was able to
respond effectively after being shot “center mass”, one might
even say they were shot in the “A-zone”. And they were shot
with .38 Special (three of them), 9mm, .357 Magnum and 8mm
Mauser, so it’s not all about caliber. One of those was a Chicom
12.7 mm round! He lived next door to me for many years.
So, what’s a person to do? First off, realize that one shot, even a
fairly well placed shot may not do the job so don’t set there and
admire your handiwork or wait for it to take effect. But even two
hits may not get the job done!
After years of trying to get a grasp on this I have come to look at
the results of shooting a living breathing target – be it a human
attacker or a game animal – as falling into 3 or 4 categories.
They are :
1. Instant Collapse – this takes place 1 to 2 seconds from the
shot being fired
2. Rapid Collapse – this can take from 3 to 15 seconds and is
quite common.
3. Marginal Effect – this can even be a lethal hit but it takes
from 15 to 300 (yes 300!) or even more seconds.
4. The 4th is simply unacceptable and is a total failure.
The last category we don’t like to discuss but happens too often .
We saw it recently in Washington with a Center Mass hit from
an officer’s pistol and the subject was still walking around the
next day.
What is “effective” shooting? Sad to say, it is demanding. It is
also, I think, variable depending on the conditions. For example,
the robber armed with a scattergun who is standing 10 feet away
must be stopped “right now!” If you do not bring about Instant
Collapse someone may very well die…that someone may be
you!
On the other hand, if there is a gang banger launching bullets in
your general direction using un-aimed fire about 20 yards away
then a hit that brings about Rapid Collapse might do the job.
I cannot imagine a Marginally Effective result being very
desirable in any case, but it does buy you some time in some
cases.
How does this relate to hits? In order to achieve Instant Collapse
you must scramble the “circuitry” that keeps the bad guy on the
attack. That means the brain or spinal cord.
The head is not only a fairly difficult target to hit in the real
world – because it moves a lot – but it is also difficult to
penetrate and get a pistol bullet into the place it must be to be
effective. For normal purposes we might write off the head,
keeping it in reserve for very special circumstances.
The spine is not that easy to hit either. It isn’t large, and to be
effective the hit needs to be in the upper 1/3 of the spine or at a
point about level with the tip of the sternum. I think that is
around T11. But of course the huge problem is that it is hidden
by the rest of the body. We are the good guys, we don’t go
around shooting people in the back. So the exact location is
something that can only be learned through lots of practice on
3D targets. Your point of aim on the surface changes with the
angle at which the target is facing.
The bottom of the spine isn’t much use. I know of several
people shot in the pelvis. It did not break them down as many
theorize. I am not saying it doesn’t happen but in the only case I
know of in which it did the person who was “anchored” with a
.357 magnum to the pelvis killed the person that shot him – you
can shoot just fine from prone.
A shot, or preferably multiple shots to the heart and major
arteries above the heart (not below!) may achieve Rapid
Collapse, but not always. Officer Stacy Lim was shot in the
heart at contact distance with a .357 Magnum and is still alive
and her attacker is still dead! Score one for the good guys…or in
this case gals!
So now what constitutes Marginal Effectiveness? A hit to the
lungs! Even multiple hits to the lungs. Unfortunately though,
most often lung hits are effective in ending the fight because the
subject decides to quit the fight, not because he MUST. A
famous Colonel Louis LeGarde once wrote what is considered
“the” book on gunshot wounds. 65% of his patients shot through
the lungs – with rifles! – survived with the predominant
treatment being only bed rest!
Effective Practice and “Dynamic Response”
The goal of practice, one would think, is to make correct,
effective shooting techniques a matter of reflex, so that you
don’t have to think about what you are doing in a gunfight.
Most people will perform under stress at about 50 to 60% as
well as they do on the range…and that is if they practice a lot! If
they only go to the range once every other month that
performance level decreases dramatically. Shooting and
weapons handling are very perishable skills. Also folks tend to
practice the wrong stuff inadvertently. I put this in the
classification of “practicing getting killed” but that too is a topic
for another
day.
Movement and Variation doesen’t mean
innacurate shooting. In a real gunfight you and
your adversary will most likely
Let’s talks
about a basic
response, what I call “Dynamic Response.” Situations vary and
this is not meant to be a universal answer, just one that will work
for about 80% of scenarios.
It is pointless to stand still on the range and shoot a stationary
target, unless you simply want to polish up some marksmanship
fundamentals. That is a necessary part of learning to shoot. But
if you are practicing for a fight, then fight!
Some rules.
1. Don’t go to the range without a covering garment – unless
of course you always carry your gun exposed (no
comment).
2. Don’t practice drawing your gun fast – ever! – while
standing still.
Part of the Dynamic Response is to step off the line of attack (or
on rare occasions that are dependent on circumstances
backwards or forwards) and present the weapon with as much
alacrity as you can muster and engage the target with
overwhelming and accurate fire! By the way, never assume a
fight is completely over just because you canceled one threat.
Don’t practice “standing down” too quickly. We have a video
attached which will hopefully give you the right idea.
I wish there was a formula of how to stand and how to hold you
gun but there really isn’t. We don’t do “Weaver vs. Isosceles vs.
Modern Iso vs. whatever”. We don’t do “Thumbs Crossed vs.
be moving. Click here if you can’t see the video.
Thumbs Forward vs. Thumb Up…never mind.” Those are things
for you to work out on your own. You use what makes YOU
effective not what works for a guy who practices 50,000 rounds
the week before a big match (that is not an exaggeration).
Competitive shooters will throw out advice on what works for
them. It may not work for you.
There is also not “one true gun”. Your skill is far more
important that what you carry, within reason. We are not really
talking about “stopping power”, whatever that is, here but rather
effectiveness.
I can find no real measure – referred to by some as a
mathematical model – of stopping power or effectiveness. And I
have looked for 44 years now! Generally speaking I do see that
bigger holes (in the right place) are more effective than smaller
holes but the easy answer to that is just to shoot your smaller
gun more – “a big shot is just a little shot that kept shooting”.
True, I carry a .45 but that is because I am lazy and want to
shoot less. A good bullet in 9mm in the right place (the spine!)
will get the job done. If you hit the heart, 3 or 4 expanded 9mms
will do about what a .45 expanding bullet will do or one might
equal .45 ball….IF (note the big if) it penetrates. That is not
based on any formula, it is based on what I have found to
happen – sometimes real life does not make sense.
Practicing Dynamic Response means practicing with an open
mind. Circumstances in a real gunfight are unpredictable and the
more unpredictability you mix up into your practice the more
your brain will be preparing itself for a possible real gunfight.
In real life, your gunfight may be dark, cold, rainy, etc. The
subject may be anorexic (a lot of bad guys are not very healthy)
or he may be obese (effective penetration and stopping power of
your weapon). There are dozens of modifiers which change the
circumstance, most not under your control. My only advice on
this is what I learned from an old tanker: “Shoot until the target
changes shape or catches fire!” Vertical to horizontal is a shape
change, and putting that one more round into his chest at point
blank range may catch his clothes on fire, even without using
black powder.
We tell our military folks to be prepared to hit an enemy fighter
from 3-7 times with 5.56 ball, traveling at over 3,000 feet per
second. This approach sometimes worked, but I know of several
cases where it has not, even “center mass.”
With handguns, and with expanding bullets, it is even more
unpredictable, but through years of study I have developed a
general formula, subject to the above mentioned unpredictable
circumstances.
2-3 hits with a .45
4-6 with a .40
5-8 with a 9mm
With a revolver, the rounds are not necessarily more effective
but I would practice shooting 3 in a .38 or .357 merely because I
want 3 left for other threats. Not that those next three won’t
follow quickly if the target hasn’t changed shape around my
front sight blade. A .41, .44 or .45 Colt I would probably drop to
two. Once again, they are not that much more effective than a
.45 Auto but I don’t have the bullets to waste.
In any case, I want to stress the part that it is more about how
you shoot than what you shoot, within reason. It is also more
about the mindset and condition of the subject you are shooting
which is not under your control. Take control – buy good bullets
and put them where they count the most! And remember
“anyone worth shooting once is worth shooting a whole lot!”
(but please stop when the threat is cancelled, we don’t advocate
“finishing shots”).
Gunfights are ugly things. I don’t like to talk about the blood
and guts aspects of defending life any more than the next guy.
But it is our lives we are talking about here. By researching how
gunfights are fought, and more importantly, how gunfights are
won, it may give both of us the edge if a gunfight ever comes
our way. I hope to cover many of the points I have learned and
learned to train others in over the coming months. It isn’t as easy
to write about it as it is to teach it in person, but you can only
succeed if you are willing to try.
I hope you enjoy the ride.
Press on!
Jim
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