\n\nWhy Surrender Is Never an Option<\/h1>\nThe Phases of Surrender<\/strong>
\nThe first phase of surrender is failing to be armed, trained and committed to fight.\u00a0 We are prepared to surrender when we are unprepared to resist.<\/p>\nThe second phase of surrender is failing to be alert.\u00a0 You must see trouble coming in order to have time to respond.\u00a0 The warning may be less than one second but it will be there and it must be recognized and acted upon immediately.<\/p>\n The Third phase of surrender is giving up your weapons.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 The last phase of surrender is out of your hands.
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\nSurrender during war<\/strong>
\nDuring the American Revolution 12,000 Colonists captured by the British died in captivity on prison ships, while only 8,000 died in battle.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\nCivil War prisoners were treated so badly that some 50,000 died in captivity.\u00a0 More Americans have been killed by Americans than by any foreign army in any war.\u00a0 Six hundred eighteen thousand Americans died in the Civil War.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Of the Americans who actually reached Japanese prison camps during the war, nearly 50,000 died in captivity.\u00a0 That is more than 10 percent of all the American military deaths in the entire war in both the Pacific and European theaters combined.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 If those 70,000 Americans had continued to fight, they could have provided time for the United States to build and maneuver its forces, perhaps shortening the war and saving even more lives.\u00a0 Some of them would have likely survived the war.\u00a0 If they had all died in battle their fate would have been no worse.<\/p>\n During the early stages of the \u201cBattle of the Bulge\u201d American soldiers were massacred by the German troops who captured them.<\/p>\n During the Vietnam conflict many American Prisoners Of War were tortured daily for years by the Communist North Vietnamese.\u00a0\u00a0 Many Americans died during the process.\u00a0 Only Officers (Airmen) held in North Vietnam were ever repatriated.\u00a0 Enlisted Americans captured in South Viet Nam were routinely tortured, mutilated and murdered by the Communists.\u00a0 As a combat soldier and knowing my fate should I be captured, I was committed to fighting to the death.\u00a0 I made specific plans to force the enemy to kill me rather than allow myself to be captured.<\/p>\n In recent years, American troops captured by Islamic terrorists groups have virtually all been tortured and murdered in gruesome fashion.\u00a0 If I were fighting in the Middle East, I would make a similar vow and plan to fight to the death.\u00a0 Under no circumstances would I allow myself to be captured by our Islamic enemies.<\/p>\n Death by Government<\/strong>
\nRJ 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.<\/p>\nSome of the Nations where the mass murder of civilians occurred during the 20th Century include Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, The Congo, Uganda, Armenia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Nigeria, Laos, China, Cuba, Manchuria, Iraq, Iran, Biafra, Rwanda and many others.\u00a0 The slaughter of civilians by governments appears to be as common as not.<\/p>\n Most of these slaughters were only made possible by disarming the victims before killing them.\u00a0 Had these people resisted, their fate would have been no worse and perhaps better.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n Jews and others who surrendered to the Nazis were murdered in slave labor camps by the millions.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The fact that Hitler confiscated guns in 1936 made resistance far less feasible.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n William Ayers, former leader of the Terrorist organization \u201cThe Weather Underground,\u201d and close friend of Barack Obama, told his followers in the Weather Underground, \u201cWhen we (Communist Revolutionaries) take over the United States, we will have to kill 25 million Americans.\u201d\u00a0 He was referring to those who would never submit to a Communist takeover.\u00a0 Those who would refuse to deny and reject the Constitution would have to be murdered.\u00a0 If this sounds impossible, remember that Genocide by Government was the leading cause of death in the last Century.<\/p>\n Surrendering to Criminals<\/strong>
\nThe \u201cOnion Field Murder\u201d in California was a wakeup call to Law Enforcement Officers everywhere.\u00a0 On March 9, 1963, two LAPD Officers were taken prisoner by two criminals. The Officers submitted to capture and gave up their weapons.
\nThey were driven to an onion field outside of Bakersfield.<\/p>\nOne Officer was murdered while the other Officer managed to escape in a hail of gunfire. The surviving Officer suffered serious psychological case, having been unable to save his partner.\u00a0 As a result of this incident, the LAPD policy became, \u201cYou will fight no matter how bad things are.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYou will never ever surrender your weapons or yourself to a criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n Consider the Ogden, Utah record store murders.\u00a0 Read the book if you do not know the story.\u00a0 The manner in which the criminals murdered their young victims cannot be described here.\u00a0 Resistance might have been futile.\u00a0 Compliance was definitely and absolutely futile.<\/p>\n The courts in this country have ruled that the police have no legal obligation to protect anyone.\u00a0 Why do Law Enforcement Officials always tell civilians not to resist a criminal, while they tell their Officers to always resist and never surrender?\u00a0 Police administrators fear being sued by a civilian victim who gets hurt resisting.\u00a0 Furthermore, the police, like all government agencies derive their power by fostering dependence.<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p>\n The Doctor and his family in Connecticut complied and cooperated, meeting every demand of the home invasion robbers to whom they had surrendered.\u00a0 The Doctors wife and daughters were tortured, raped, doused with gasoline and burned alive.\u00a0 How did surrender and cooperation work out for them?<\/p>\n In another home invasion robbery, a kindly couple with 9 \u201cadopted, special needs children,\u201d surrendered to the robbers.\u00a0 The victims opened their safe and did not resist in any way.\u00a0 When the robbers where finished ransacking the home and terrifying the children, they shot both parents in the head several times before leaving.\u00a0 How did surrender and complete cooperation work out for them?<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 Some survive but many do not.\u00a0 The monster gets to decide for you.
\nWe have heard brutalized victims say, “The 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?\u00a0 He will be lying if he speaks.\u00a0 As we say in law enforcement, \u201cIf a criminal\u2019s lips are moving while he is speaking, he is lying.\u201d Criminals by definition are dishonest and should never be trusted or believed.<\/p>\n You have no doubt heard friends say, I would not resist a criminal, after all why would he kill me?\u00a0 This is stupid and naive.\u00a0 In law enforcement, we call these people \u201cVictims by Choice\u201d (VBC).\u00a0 There could be a long list of reasons why a criminal would kill you despite your cooperation.<\/p>\n You may be of a different race, thus a different tribe.\u00a0 Only members of his tribe are actually human in his mind.\u00a0 He may feel hatred toward\u00a0 you because you have more than he does.\u00a0 Gratification from being in a position of total power is reason enough for some.<\/p>\n Criminals are sometimes members of a Satanic Cult who worship death such as the \u201cNight Stalker\u201d in California.\u00a0 Eliminating a potential witness is often cited as a reason to kill a victim.\u00a0 Sometimes criminals simply enjoy causing suffering and death.\u00a0 There are people who are in fact, pure evil.\u00a0 I have heard criminals say, \u201cI killed her just to watch her die.\u201d<\/p>\n A victim who begs for mercy can give his attacker a tremendous feeling of power which many criminals seem to enjoy.\u00a0 You cannot expect mercy from someone who does not know what mercy is.<\/p>\n Resist!<\/strong>
\nWe each have a duty to ourselves, our loved ones, our neighbors, our community, our city, our state and our country to resist criminals.\u00a0 Reasoning with a thug who believes that his failures are because of people just like you is not likely to be helpful.\u00a0 Pleading with a terrorist who has been taught from birth that his salvation depends on murdering people like you is a doomed plan.\u00a0 Resist!<\/p>\nResist!\u00a0 His gun may not be real.\u00a0 After you are tied up it will not matter.\u00a0 His gun may not be loaded.\u00a0 After you are tied up it will not matter.\u00a0 He may not know how to operate his gun.\u00a0 After you are tied up it will not matter. Resist!<\/p>\n Statistically if you run and your assailant shoots at you he will miss.\u00a0 Statistically if you run and he shoots and hits you, you will not die.\u00a0 Bad guys shooting at the police miss 90 percent of the time.\u00a0 The odds are on your side.\u00a0 Better to die fighting in place than to be tied up, doused with gasoline and burned alive.\u00a0 There are things worse than death.\u00a0 Surrender to a criminal or a terrorist and you will learn what they are.\u00a0 Resist!<\/p>\n If you resist with a commitment to win you may well prevail, especially if you are armed and trained.\u00a0 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 Middle East, brought to us by the \u201cIslamic practitioners of peace.\u201d
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.marksmanshipmatters.com\/images\/stories\/surrender1.jpg\") \u00a0![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.marksmanshipmatters.com\/images\/stories\/surrender2.jpg\") <\/strong><\/p>\nSome who have refused to surrender.<\/strong>
\nHistory 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.\u00a0 Others have gone down fighting and avoided being tortured to death.\u00a0 Some fought to the death to help or save others.\u00a0 Many have fought to the death for an idea or a belief.<\/p>\nWhen General Santa Ana (also the President of Mexico at the time) ordered 180 “Texacans” to surrender the Alamo, Col. Travis answered with \u201ca cannon shot and a rebel yell.\u201d\u00a0 Eventually General Santa Ana was able to build his troop strength to ten thousand.\u00a0 The Mexicans then swarmed the defenders and killed them all.<\/p>\n The battle of the Alamo delayed the Mexican Army long enough for
\nSam Huston to build his Texacan Army, which met and defeated the Mexican Army and captured General Santa Ana.\u00a0 General Santa Ana traded Texas for his life and the sacrifices of the Alamo defenders changed history.<\/p>\n Frank Luke was a heroic aviator in WWI.\u00a0 Shot down and wounded he refused to surrender when confronted by a German patrol.\u00a0 He killed 4 German soldiers with his 1911 Pistol before being killed.\u00a0 Luke was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 Instead, he attacked hundreds of German soldiers killing about 25 with his rifle and pistol and then captured 132 others by himself!<\/p>\n Most of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (Poland) surrendered to the German Army.\u00a0 They were taken off to death camps and murdered.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n During the \u201cBattle of the Bulge,\u201d the 101st Airborne was surrounded by the German Army and ordered to surrender. Faced with overwhelming odds, the Commanding Officer of the 101st sent this reply to the Germans. “Nuts.”\u00a0 The Americans refused to surrender and they stopped the German advance.\u00a0\u00a0 Most of the Americans troops survived.<\/p>\n On Sept 2, 2010, 40 armed criminals took over and robbed a train in India.\u00a0 Some of the robbers had guns, others used knives and clubs.\u00a0 When they began to disrobe an 18 year old girl for the purpose of gang raping her, one of the passengers decided to fight.\u00a0 He was a 35 year old retired Gurkha soldier.\u00a0 He drew his Khukasri Knife and attacked the 40 robbers.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The eight wounded robbers were arrested.<\/p>\n How does one man defeat 40?\u00a0 How does he summon the courage to fight such odds?\u00a0 He utilized all of the Principles of Personal Defense: Alertness, Decisiveness, Aggressiveness, Speed, Coolness, Ruthlessness, and Surprise.\u00a0 He was skilled in the use of his weapon.\u00a0 Most importantly, He refused to be a victim and allow evil to triumph!<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Final thoughts<\/strong>
\nHow 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.\u00a0 Those who surrender never win and often die a horrible death.\u00a0 Have you made your decision?\u00a0 Remember, no decision is a decision to do nothing.<\/p>\nLarry and Stacey Mudgett<\/p>\n \u00a9 2011 Marksmanship Matters. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wild Bill sent me this link and I thought it a timely word………I have listed the link and also copied and pasted the article by Larry and Stacey Mudgett. The only thing I would like to add is to re-emphasize the advice given at the conclusion of this article..If you have not made \u00a0a decision…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,118,272],"tags":[446,447,448,449],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |