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" If you think this guy wants to kill you no matter how much money you give him, then you have to fight. Good indicator: If he wants to move you from one place to another--like, &amp;quot;Get in the car&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Come down this alley&amp;quot;--your chances are a lot worse. Surrender is no guarantee of survival. I&amp;#039;ve been to the scene of too many murders where hope sprung eternal, even when the duct tape came out. Statistics show that 75 percent of the time, resistance to robbery is helpful, but that&amp;#039;s out of the source book--that&amp;#039;s not real life. In real life, you have to make the decision of whether to fight or not, and you have to make it then and there. If you have to fight, know one thing: Action is twice as fast as reaction. In the police academy, you&amp;#039;re taught to take cover and tell the guy to drop his gun. That&amp;#039;s wrong. You grab the gun. You grab a guy by the gun, it&amp;#039;s just like grabbing a guy by the balls: There will be a split second of confusion. But let&amp;#039;s say he has a gun to your head and you grab his hand or knock it away--you&amp;#039;re still fighting a guy with a loaded gun. So you have to change that. You either have to get the gun out of his hand or disable the gun; you have to work on the gun no matter what kind of beating you&amp;#039;re taking. Even if this guy is biting your ear off, all your energy has to be focused on taking that gun or rendering it inoperable by hitting the button that releases the clip or by uncocking it or by hitting the safety. It helps to know guns.  When I was a rookie cop in Transit, I had the experience of having my gun taken from me, and I had the experience of taking it back. A drug dealer took my gun from me. He shot at me a couple of times--I had powder burns on my face--but he missed, and I got the gun back. I shot him twice in the chest. Then he beat me up. That&amp;#039;s the way it goes in these things: He beat me up, but I had the gun, so I won. He died. I got a beating, but I&amp;#039;m still here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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