US Army Staff Sgt Disarms Bank Robber (Video)

A feel-good story with lessons for all of us.

I love how he’s so casual about this:

“I took the weapon away from him, and put him on the ground…”– SSgt Eddie Peoples

Sgt. Peoples was not deterred.

"I've been through five deployments. I've fought the Muqtada militia, everybody you can think of, so weapons getting pointed at me, it doesn't really bother me anymore," he said. "I took the weapon away from him and put him on the ground and the rest was history."

Deputies arrested 34-year-old Matthew Rogers. He is charged with armed robbery.

"Every time I get deployed, I always tell my children I'm going to fight the bad men. When I walked back in the bank, my oldest boy said 'did you get the bad men?' and I said 'yep, I got the bad men' and everyone applauded," Peoples said.

Rogers has a long criminal history, including arrests for burglary, auto theft and reckless driving.

Guns in the Martial Arts - updated

[UPDATED: I've added more links to great sites and posts. Scroll to the bottom of the post.]

[UPDATE: Apples to Oranges is a follow-up by James Rummel on this subject.]

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"Martial artists who believe they are teaching self-defense are wrong not to cover firearms, but Shooters are wrong not cover unarmed skills" - Brillianter.com

Brillianter is responding to an equally brilliant post from Hell in a Handbasket, Easy, Quick, Simple, Effective, which posits a basic truth: martial arts schools and firearms are like oil and water, separated by nature.

"... most self defense dojos carefully avoid teaching their students anything about firearms. All of them claim to teach an effective open hand technique that will allow their students to prevail in a violent encounter, and some of them even incorporate weapons in their lessons such as fighting sticks or knives. And yet, of all the various weapons and self defense techniques offered, firearms are always absent. Why would that be so?"

Many, if not most, martial arts instructors have an aversion to firearms possession, training, and use. It's antithetical to the beliefs of many that any situation can be resolved by awareness, avoidance, training, or technique, all of which involve the "empty hand," or at best, a kubotan or improvised weapon. The sad truth is that most of our training will go for naught if faced with a 12-year old with a gun and a bad attitude. We avoid the knowledge of ranged, non-classical weapons (i.e. firearms) because it destroys the myth of our deadly skills in the eyes of others, or own own. Why spend 20 years learning Dim Mak and body hardening, only to be forced to admit that they are useless against a $50 handgun?

On the other had, both authors take the position that firearms instructors tend to ignore the need to learn and use non-lethal force, in which most of us specialize.

Thankfully, one of the intended aims of the reality-based self-defense movement (fad?) is toward integrating the use of firearms in training, both in their intended use, and in learning tactical and strategic methods to survive armed encounters, not to mention the ubiquitous disarms. I believe that the influx of former law enforcement and military personnel into the breach has helped those in the public who recognize the real need with an alternative to both traditional gun training (gun only), and the old-fashioned training hall.

For more information:

From TDA Training:
Airsoft Pistols for Tactical Training
Air Guns and Self-Defense Training
Knife defense scenario training
Anecdotal Information on Home Invasion - Use of Deadly Force
Weapons first or last?
Bringing a gun to a knife fight?
Is your traditional training going to get you killed?
Unarmed vs the drawn handgun
Rush a gun; Run from a knife

From other sites:
Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog Civilians using guns in self-defense.

Hell in a Handbasket a professional self defense instructor teaching practical self-defense with firearms

Hock Hochheim for Hand to Hand Combat, Stick Combat, Knife Combat, Gun Combat in All Ranges of Combat: Standing, Kneeling and On the Ground Combat Tactics and Strategies

things worth believing in by Thomas Gace, a police officer who's serving and protecting the both his local, and the online communities

Defend University, a research and development group dedicated to the exploration of leading edge techniques and strategies for self-defense, security and defensive tactics. Look here for info that can be applied to your personal protection, defensive tactics, executive protection, and martial arts programs.

Crime Information Latest Information on Crime Statistics and Self Defense

The carjacking choice

Via Defend University:   

Now let me make a slight change in the scenario. You are on a trip with your two-year-old child. You have secured her in a car seat in the rear passenger area of your parked rent-a-car. You walk around to the driver's side of your car, get in, lock the doors and put the key in the ignition switch. You turn around and notice that your child's seat is not properly secured. You get out of the car to make the adjustment. As you do, a man with a gun appears and insists on taking the car now.

Do you:

- A. Refuse and try to block his entry into your car?

- B. Jump in the car to try to start it so you can drive away?

- C. Plead with him to let you have your child before he takes the car?

- D. Demand that he either give you your child, or you will insist on going with him?

- E. Try to wrestle the gun away from the assailant so you can shoot him?

- F. Run like hell away from the car?

The answer? Run like hell

In over 20 years of teaching Women's Self-Defense, I've always gotten a variation of this question after covering the basics, "Excuse me, Mr. Nathan, that's all well and good, but what if he's got a gun?" MY answer was the same each time, RUN!" You may not know that in almost all cases, a victim who's been removed from the original scene of her abduction will never be seen alive again. A potential kidnapper doesn't want to shoot when others are around to hear, so get going! The scenario mentioned above is also correct:, "If you were to plead, you'd be wasting you breath. If you were to resist, you could be injured -- or worse -- and the mope would probably take the car anyway. And if you were to insist on staying with your child, the carjacker would then have two victims instead of one. What's worse, there may be no one to report the incident or to get immediate help. The correct answer, from me, the travel security expert, is definitely F." Read the rest!

For more information:
Defend University
Crime Doctor
Rape Escape
Melissa Soalt
Crime Information
Charlotte Self Defense
No Nonsense Self Defense
TDA Self-defense, Women's Self-Defense

Photo: Jamd.com

Technorati Tags: Women's self defense,self defense,weapons,carjacking,rape,karate,martial arts

Unarmed vs the drawn handgun

What should you do versus a drawn handgun? There are a lot of techniques out there, including the techniques we show in our Gun defense category, so check them out (esp the videos). Gabe Suarez, in his May Warrior News piece writes:

AGAINST THE DRAWN GUN - A FORCE ON FORCE STUDY

At the recent Salt Lake City Interactive gunfighting Class we added a component dealing with facing the drawn gun. This was largely inspired by the Virginia Tech murders last month. The question being this. You are facing a man who has just drawn on you…or who is about to shoot you.

The method was not technical but rather conceptual. You get the gun off you, you keep it off you, and you either disarm the gun man or beat him into a bloody pulp while keeping the muzzle off your body line.

The examination of this difficult problem began up close. Literally within arm’s reach. I asked a student to point an Airsoft at me and advised him I would not be complying…even to the point of showing him the technique I would use. At full speed, full commitment on my part He was not able to shoot me at all in ten tries. His comment was that he could not pull the trigger fast enough, and by the time he did, the gun was pointing elsewhere.

We repeated this with the various students and at the close distances, the proactive “defender” has the advantage over the gun man.

We moved out farther…just outside of arm’s reach. Now it became challenging. The farther out we went the harder it became. Again, this was based on the idea that you had just come across the gunman and he was about to shoot you. Remember that the plan is to shoot you and kill you so anything that prevents or minimizes the damage to you is desirable. It very much fits in the Die Less Often chain of concepts.

Notice where he says, "At full speed, full commitment on my part He was not able to shoot me at all in ten tries. His comment was that he could not pull the trigger fast enough, and by the time he did, the gun was pointing elsewhere." This jibes with what my training group has observed as well. Emphasis should be on full commitment. One commenter on a disarm video post post asked whether it still works with full energy and airsoft (we practiced with real pistols in the video), and I have to say that yes, it works. Why?

I have always (yes, even at birth!) said that action beats reaction every time. As long as there's commitment. That's why, up close, a handgun disarm is a viable technique. By the time the gun wielder react, it's too late. Now, will it work every time? Assuredly not, which is why people get shot, even trained cops (and most aren't). If you have to choose between getting shot and possibly disarming, or at least redirecting a handgun...

Also, if you want the full copy of that newsletter, just email me (see sidebar), and I'll forward it to you. You can also subscribe to Suarez' excellent newsletter by going here.

Further reading:
Airsoft Pistols for Tactical Training
Handgun disarm, single hand from the rear - video
Handgun disarm - Double hands from the front
Handgun disarm - Single hand from the front
Rush a gun; Run from a knife
The Quick Pistol Disarm: An Aiki-Jujitsu method

Once a Marine...

Scroll to the bottom for updates:
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Read this post from Defend University about a 70 year-old "former" U.S. Marine who took out an armed bandit using a choke.

I found the following story on Reuters:

Angry tourists break mugger's neck

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A group of U.S. tourists, including a former Marine, killed a Costa Rican mugger by breaking his neck after he pulled a gun on them in a Caribbean port, a local police official said on Thursday.

The cruise ship passengers told police they jumped on Wagner Segura, 20, to defend themselves when he pointed a .38 caliber revolver at them near the Caribbean port of Limon on Wednesday, and somehow snapped his neck, regional police director Luis Hernandez said.

Segura died instantly and two other unidentified thieves, one of whom was armed with a knife, fled the scene, Hernandez said.

"One of the tourists was a former Marine and he was probably the one who broke (Segura's) neck," Hernandez said. "His neck was completely snapped."

No charges will be filed against the tourists because police viewed the incident as an act of self-defense. Police questioned and released the group, which rejoined the cruise and left Cost Rica.

The Americans were passengers aboard the Carnival cruise ship Legend. They got off their tour bus to take photos in a notoriously rough neighborhood a short drive from Limon.

After the attack, they put Segura's body on their bus and found a police officer in Limon to report the incident.

Defend U then posits the following lessons learned:

1. Fight deadly force with deadly force. They've got a gun and a knife -- they are prepared to use deadly force against you. This is not a fight. This is combat. You must use deadly force to prevail.
2. Have courage! This is a 70-year-old vs. a 20-year-old. You are never too old, too weak, too scared, too out-of-shape, too young, etc. to be able to defend yourself. Strengthen your will to survive and prevail against all adversaries.
3. Learn the fundamental techniques well. I doubt if this guy has practiced any of his hand-to-hand techniques since Eisenhower was president, but the basic, fundamental rear naked choke (I'm assuming here) is something that works and is simple enough to retain for long periods of time.
4. Be committed. Once you make the decision to counterattack, be decisive, swift and violent in your actions.
5. Rest easy that you did the right thing by defending yourself and made the world safer for those who follow you.

Right on.

UPDATED: This newer AP story gives more details:

Adams was with 12 American tourists who hired a driver to explore Costa Rica for a few hours. They were climbing out of the van to visit a Caribbean beach when three men wearing ski masks ran toward them, she said. One held a gun to her head, while the other two pulled out knives.

Suddenly, one of the tourists, a U.S. military veteran trained in self defense, jumped out of the van and put the gunman in a headlock, according to Limon police chief Luis Hernandez.

Hernandez said the American, whom he refused to identify, struggled with the robber, breaking his collarbone and eventually killing him. Police identified the dead man as Warner Segura, 20. The other two assailants fled.

And...

Costa Rican officials interviewed the Americans, and said they wouldn't charge the U.S. tourist with any crime because he acted in self defense.

"They were in their right to defend themselves after being held up," Hernandez said. He said Segura had previous charges against him for assaults.

But Ligia Herrera Mendez, the mother of the dead assailant, claimed the tourists of took the law into their own hands.

"We want justice, this can't go unpunished, because they could have saved him," she said in an interview in Limon. "If this had happened in the United States, the suspect would have been detained and wouldn't have left the country."

She also acknowledged past problems. "I know my boy wasn't staying out of trouble, I knew that any moment I would get bad news."

Is the "Gun culture" responsible for these victims?

I just read this story from the Telegraph on several shootings in London. The story is somewhat typical in the reporting on the violent deaths, tragic though they may be, but the headline is what drew me to post on it. It reads, "London's gun culture claims new victim," as if the "gun culture" sought out the victims, aimed, then shot them down.

What I'm getting at is that:

1. The victims were killed by murderers, not by an amorphous "gun culture." I have never seen a "culture" of any type perform any specific act, much less be convicted of, or serve time for such acts.
   


2. The emphasis on the "culture" seems to put the blame on society as a whole, rather than the murderers. It goes back to the old phrase, "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." There have been arguments on both sides of this issue, ad nauseum, but in an effort to clear it up, car insurance companies rate drivers, not the cars they drive. In other words, because I (at age 39) have a perfect driving record in the last 10 years, I will get a lower rate than an 18 year-old male driver of the same vehicle in the same area who has 5 tickets and two accidents. The car isn't the difference, is it?
   


3. There is a fad in the UK to also blame the "knife culture" for the massive surge in stabbings there. The UK has gone the way of most Western European countries and make private ownership of handguns (or rifles, for that matter), all but illegal. Since that change, there have been noticeable effects - major increases in home invasions, stabbings, and violent crime as a whole. Why? Well, we know that there won't be law-abiding citizens who can defend themselves with firearms, that knives are still legal, or at least penalized less than the gun would be, and criminals now have free rein over those who obey the law.

These points are just made to emphasize that this, and many, many other news stories slant toward an agenda of demonizing guns and those who wield them, rather than the act itself. This story could have been titled, "Several young victims shot, perpetrators on the loose!" It didn't.

Logic only dictates that if you disarm the law-abiding, those who don't abide will have a free hand in terrorizing the rest of the populace.

The recent shootings in Utah highlighted what one armed man with courage can do to stop a serial killer. The fact that he was a police officer was incidental, it could be anyone who's carrying and wanted to stop the mass-murderer. Whether you carry or not, support the rights of those who choose to legally defend themselves and their families.

Disagree? Something to add? Comments are welcomed!

What to Do When You Hear Gunshots

Great post from Defend University, What to Do When Gunfire Erupts!: "Chances are you will never need to follow this advice. However, there are bad people in the world, some watching the news coverage and seeing opportunities for copycat type of killings. In days past, when there were more armed citizens around and less media coverage for some outcast’s 15 minutes of fame, there were less of these types of incidents. You are responsible for your own personal security."

Read it!

New Category: Gun Defense!

I forgot to post about this early, but there is a new category: Gun Defense. It's focused on anything related to gun disarms, defending yourself against a gun, or stories related to same. Enjoy, and please peruse anything else in Categories. Comments welcomed.

Handgun disarm, single hand from the rear - video

As always, MAKE SURE your weapon is unloaded, checked by all participants prior to doing any training of this sort. An airsoft or squirt gun can also be used.

Handgun disarm - Double hands from the front

Here is another disarm. In this case, the armed subject is in the front with the handgun aimed at the head or chest, gripping the weapon with both hands. As always, DO NOT practice this with a loaded weapon!

Handgun disarm - Single hand from the front

Watch as Daniel demonstrates and explains this disarm. We can try to dissect it and go over the pros and cons of this later. I just want to get it out to you. Please ensure that you make sure the weapon is clear (unloaded), and that it's verified by everyone before beginning. We went so far as to make sure there was no live ammo in the building that would fit that weapon. Recommend using dummy pistols, airsoft, and even squirt guns for training, well as many different types of real weapons. Check it out. Comments welcome.

Tags: Handgun disarm, self defense, pistol defense, MCMAP, marines

Airsoft Pistols for Tactical Training

We are planning to start using Airsoft tomorrow for disarms (in the beginning). I admit, I haven't started looking for drills oftactical skills yet, but AllianceMartialArts.com has a nice article. Read it.

Airsoft Pistols for Tactical Training
What if there was a better way to both introduce gun safety and shooting skills (especially to women)?
What if it could also aid in developing Tactical skills, yet was safe, quiet, inexpensive, and legal?
Well, if you hadn't guessed by now, the answer to all these is the AirSoft Pistol. By the very fact that it is "not a gun" it will put people at ease in handling it, yet it is enough like a gun in the way it looks, loads, and chambers that important firearm safety skills may be taught with it. This can be done nearly anywhere, indoor or out, since the plastic 6mm pellets will not break glass or damage walls.
Read the rest.
 
Tags: Airsoft, tactical, training, disarms

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Sword Vs. Gun

Watch this video. Fascinating! Thanks to Le Blog!

Rules of Gunfighting

I saw this on a nice blog called, On Patrol, and had to reprint it. Very entertaining blog by a retired teacher and auxiliary police officer. Check him out.

Adapted from USMC & USN RULES OF GUNFIGHTING

1. Bring a gun. Preferably bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.


2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.


3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.


4. If your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough nor using cover correctly.


5. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. Lateral and diagonal movement are preferred.


6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a friend with a long gun.


7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.


8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running.


9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting stances will be more dependent on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.


10. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. "All skill is in vain when an Angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket."


11. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.


12. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.


13. Have a plan.


14. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won't work.


15. Use cover and concealment as much as possible. The visible target should be in FRONT of your gun.


16. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.


17. Don't EVER drop your guard.


18. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees.


19. Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we Trust, everyone else keep your hands where I can see them).


20. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.


21. The faster you finish the fight the less shot you will get.


22. Be polite, be professional, be courteous to everyone, friendly to none.


23. Your number one option for personal security is a lifelong commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.


24. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with a "4".

Did He Do the Right Thing?

Read "Attempted robbery of off-duty Oakland police sergeant thwarted." Remember that even if you give in to a mugger or rapist, you may still be killed. You have to decide for yourself whether you should resist. However, in NO case should you allow yourself to be removed to a more remote location - if you do, you're probably going to die. Think about it...

Rush a gun; Run from a knife

Kuntao instructor Bob Orlando on "Facing an Armed Assailant"

I was recently asked, "How do you handle a hidden knife (a knife in the assailant's other hand)?" Defending against an unseen knife is practically impossible. This is true of any weapon, and assaults in general. No one can defend against something unseen. Since that is impossible, we must move to what is possible--defending against weapons we can see (or believe our assailant possesses). First, a general rule: Rush a gun; Run from a knife.

Within reasonable range and assuming you are not similarly armed, you rush a gun simply because you have no chance of controlling it if you are within the range of the weapon, but outside arm's reach. Since you cannot outrun a bullet, you might as well position yourself so you at least have a chance of controlling the weapon and possibly disarming your assailant.

On the other hand, you run from a knife because you want to stay as far out of your assailant's range as possible. (Few can throw a knife accurately anyway and only a dummy would do that if he had only one.) If flight is an option, and I can see or sense my opponent has a knife, I get the heck out of there. Not very macho, but very smart self-defense. (Macho or senseless and foolish bravado gets more folks killed and injured than anything else in a fight.)

If running is not an option (i.e. I must protect someone who cannot safely escape attack), then we close the gap quickly and, as with the gun, attempt to neutralize or disarm the assailant. As you might expect, since ours is a drill-focused school, we train the reflexes for both using and facing a knife via sombrada-range drills (see Knife Sombrada and Hand Sombrada). Once the basic flow is internalized (quite easy since both drills actually have similar movements and lines), we then mix them by having one player wield the knife while his partner remains unarmed.

In this mixed mode, the unarmed defender must not only avoid, parry, or otherwise deflect the weapon, but he must also concentrate on attacking the limb that is wielding the weapon (see Capturing The Limb). Essentially, this means setting aside your desire to strike your assailant in the face until after you've effectively neutralized his ability to even hold his weapon. (Then you can pound the creep in the face)

The basic drill pattern used in our sombrada-range knife, empty hand, and baton drills actually covers about 90% of the assault lines you're most likely to see. When mixing them, the disadvantaged player makes limb destruction his primary focus. Once his movements satisfy that, and to perpetuate the drill, the disadvantaged player then feeds his knife-wielding partner the counter punch or attack line he needs to continue the drill and train his reflexes as well.

Facing a weapon is terrifying, and if you are not afraid, you are either nuts or a fool. Still, these days weapons-based assaults are increasingly common and anyone who neglects this aspect of martial arts training is equally foolish.

The Quick Pistol Disarm

FightingArts.com - The Quick Pistol Disarm: An Aiki-Jujitsu method, By Prof. Gene Roos

"The advantage of this method is that even a small and weak person can use it against a much larger stronger attacker."

Read it

Student kills intruder in apparent self-defense

West Georgia student kills intruder in apparent self-defense

Associated Press
"CARROLLTON, Ga. - A University of West Georgia student killed an armed man who broke into his apartment near the school's campus, police said.
Carrollton Police Capt. Daryl Diamond said three male West Georgia students were asleep in the apartment unit shared by two of them when Courtney Grant Vaughn knocked on their door early Friday.
A student awoke, opened the door and saw Vaughn pointing a gun at him, Diamond said.
Vaughn, of Carrollton, struck two of the men with the gun then threatened the other before one of students grabbed a knife and stabbed him multiple times, authorities said.
Vaughn, 22, was pronounced dead at the Tanner Medical Center-Carrollton from numerous knife wounds, police said.
Diamond said no charges were pending against the students."

Bringing a gun to a knife fight?

WSLS.com Bringing a gun to a knife fight. Shoot or Don't shoot?

"I've followed officers through both the police and FBI training as they learn when it's justified to shoot. You might think it's only when the suspect has a gun, but it's not.

Kevin Foust, the Supervisory Senior Resident Agent of the Roanoke - Bristol -Lynchburg offices for the FBI agreed to bring two fellow agents to demonstrate why a man with a knife is in fact a threat to an officer with a gun. Joining him were veteran agent and firearms instructor Ron Buckley, and agent Kate Kelley, who's three years out of the Academy.

Through role playing in a studio at the Kirk Family YMCA, Buckley demonstrated what would happen if Kelley came after him with in knife. In one scenario he tried to holster his gun and go for a baton -- to make the fight "fair." In another, he shot Kelley when she lunged at him.

Scenario 1 -- Kelley is ten feet away and refuses his command to drop the knife. As he tries to holster the gun to avoid shooting a woman armed 'only' with a knife, Kelley manages to get the gun from him. She could have shot him if she wanted.

Scenario 2 -- Kelley is ten feet away. This time when she lunges for him, he opens fire. Kelley winds up on the ground. She does not get his gun. She could not shoot him.

'Our studies have shown that these types of situations occur within ten feet if not closer, and so this is the most dangerous time an officer will ever face,' said Foust who was watching nearby. 'There's nothing in any law anywhere that says an officer has to get hurt first in the line of duty... In order to be able to respond with deadly force.'

I asked Buckley if he felt comfortable bringing a gun to a knife fight.
Carlin: 'The average person would say if you have a gun and she has a knife, that's not fair. What do you say?'
Buckley: 'Well, I would say my first concern is to prevent her from getting a better weapon that she's already got.'

Foust summed it up pretty well from the FBI perspective. 'You were talking earlier about making it a fair fight... My answer is no, we don't want to make it a fair fight. Just like the criminal doesn't want to make it a fair fight. We want to so overwhelm that person that they believe that taking the action they are thinking about is going to be a bad thing, therefore I need to comply with officer's commands.'"

"...he was just standing there with a gun pointed at my face"

It's rarely mentioned in media reports, but guns are used over a million times a year to prevent crimes and save lives. Women, usually considered among the most vulnerable to violence, are many times the beneficiary of a weapon used in self-defense. Read about a woman who was about to be murdered, and used a gun to save her own life.

A 28-year-old Clermont County woman woke up Monday morning to find a man pointing a gun at her face.

That man was her ex-boyfriend, and what she was able to do in the minutes that followed may have saved her life.

But this would be victim was able to turn the tables on her attacker.

It's the attacker now who is at University Hospital after suffering a shotgun blast
to his legs.

Cassandra Gray knows she's lucky to be alive. "He told me to get dressed, I was going with him and he was gonna kill both of us," Gray told 9News.

With that man, 32-year-old Gary Glass, her ex-boyfriend, pointing a gun at her face she knew she had to stall for time.

"That's the only thing I kept thinking, I'm not going with him, not going because I won't come back," said Gray.

Her dogs were barking so she convinced Glass to let her let them outside.

She says she then talked to Glass for several minutes, and then, let the back in.

That's when she grabbed the phone to call 911 and they started wrestling.

"My dogs attacked him and he laid the gun down," said Gray.

"I grabbed the gun and ran and fell," said Gray, "and as I fell I rolled and he was coming toward me and I picked up the gun and shot."

This brave woman did several things right:

1. She didn't panic. She obviously kept her cool long enough to realize what was going to happen, and that she had to act on her own. She used her wits and was able to talk her assailant into letting the dogs in.
2. She own a couple of good dogs. It's said that the best deterrent to a break-in is owning a dog.
3. She was determined not to be taken away from her home to a location where she'd have no control. Chances are, if you are taken out of a public area, you will never come back, as she knew.
4. She wasn't afraid to shoot. If she didn't, she would've been taken to a location out of the way enough so that she'd likely be a rape and murder victim. Who knows if the ex had the guts to kill himself as well, especially if he took her away and may have gotten away with it.
5. By putting her attacker in the hospital, and probably in jail for a long time, she may have prevented another death of a bystander or police officer if there was a hostage situation or standoff. Also, a high-speed chase could've resulted in the deaths of innocents.

Way to go, lady!