{"id":54683,"date":"2014-08-21T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54683"},"modified":"2014-08-21T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:56:16","slug":"just-what-is-an-unarmed-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54683","title":{"rendered":"Just What Is an Unarmed Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much of black America and the liberal media are making a huge issue of the Ferguson shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer. We are being treated to endless live reports of rioting and looting, some of them detailing inflows of black and leftist agitators from around the country to keep the Ferguson opportunity<\/a> hot and in full media focus. All of this comes out of a neighborhood shooting where, if the parties involved had their races reversed, the incident would have been merely local.<\/p>\n

But what amazes me is the justification for all this upheaval: that a white police officer shot an unarmed black youth. I\u2019m a white man who many decades ago was a military policeman \u2013 one who had frequent encounters with unarmed young black soldiers who all too frequently vigorously resisted arrest. Except that they weren\u2019t unarmed for the simple reason that they were young and strong and possessed quick fighting reflexes honed on the hard streets where they were raised. Quite often they were larger than me or my partner, who also quite often was black \u2013 not that this racial relationship often meant anything at all to the perps we were trying to detain. And once detained, their usual fate was that we took them back to Fort Campbell and released them in the parking lots of their barracks without filing charges. It was not our mission to bring young soldiers more grief; the lives of enlisted soldiers were already hard enough back in the late ’50s. What we did try to do was to save them from their own bad actions.<\/p>\n

But occasionally we did come upon a subject whose size and aggressive militancy required stronger measures, such as the judicious application of a nightstick. In those situations, did I ever fear for my life? Damned straight I did. Facing a much larger man, both in height and weight, who is determined not to be detained, you are praying that he\u2019ll come to his senses and submit to arrest. Your gun is there at your side, but that is the last thing you want to introduce into such an encounter. But \u2013 and that is a very large but \u2013 that call is his.<\/p>\n

And that is where I have tried to place myself in that officer\u2019s situation in Ferguson.<\/p>\n

The officer has a seriously damaged eye<\/a> from a very hard, crushing shot from a very large fist. That indicates that the perp in this situation had the opportunity to throw at least one clearly damaging punch at the officer and effectively connect before the officer even could exit his vehicle. The severity of the damage to the officer\u2019s eye and cheekbone indicates what could be expected from a sucker-punch from a 6\u20194\u201d almost 300-pound assailant. And because I\u2019ve been there and done that as a young man, there lies my problem with this media meme of the assailant being unarmed. The shoulders and arms of a 6\u20194\u201d 300-pound man driving a large clinched fist render that fist a lethal weapon. Ask anyone who\u2019s ever been on the receiving end of one. People are regularly beaten to death all around the world by such fists. Add to that the widespread availability of martial arts training in today\u2019s society, and you can never be sure that any human you go up against doesn\u2019t possess the ability to kill you with his bare hands, regardless of size.<\/p>\n

And that, folks, constitutes a deadly threat against one\u2019s person, which in most states nowadays justifies a deadly, defensive counter-response, whether you be a civilian or a law enforcement officer. Confronted by such a threat from any person \u2013 black white, brown, whatever \u2013 I\u2019m going to defend myself with whatever means I have. If that means is a handgun, then I will discharge that handgun into that large oncoming mass, and I will continue to discharge that handgun until that large threatening mass is no longer oncoming and is very decidedly unthreatening. If that means dead, so be it, no matter how many times his family assures me he was a \u201cgood boy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, I ask you, what is not commonsense about that?<\/p>\n

So, those of you so quick to condemn this Ferguson police officer for shooting an unarmed man might want to put yourselves in that scenario and wonder just what you might do with an exceptionally large, very angry, violently threatening man charging toward you with unknown intentions \u2013 plus the certain ability, by virtue of his size, to do you grave injury, even to beat you to death with nothing more than his large, hard fists.<\/p>\n

Again I ask: just what is an unarmed man?<\/p>\n

Crossposted at American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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