No head — no threat - Strategic Solutions

American Handgunner, July, 2002 by Ken J. Good

If you see it, it gets hits, right now. Fire your rounds and vacate the space. I typically fire a triple volley and change position. Whether the threat immediately goes down or not, re-observe from a different angle and distance. If you missed your opportunity, don't stay and slug it out. Bullets don't care if you can bench-press 350 pounds or that you're as fierce as a lion. Besides, most likely, the material between you and your threat doesn't do a good job of stopping bullets. Don't admire your handiwork. Get out. There is a saying: "Unless the head is separated from the body by more than four feet, that person is still a potential threat."

If a gunfight does erupt on the corner, you must be committed to win, but savvy enough to have some patience to win. It happens fast, but there is timing involved. It is the Jujitsu of gun fighting. Let your opponent over-commit. Let him take the same line too many times. Let him be overly aggressive and too fast in action.

But, when the time is right and the window of opportunity opens, you must be there with all your mental tools and the correct physical movements to overwhelm the opponent. Once you have the opponent against the ropes, you must maintain constant, unrelenting pressure until that opponent is fully defeated.

Manipulating all available elements in proper combination and sequence allows you to consistently defeat opponents when the requirement for cornering arises.