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A Guide to Violence and Self-Defense.

The Michael Shermer Show

How Hard Is It to Take Someone Down, Put Him in a Chokehold and Not Kill Him?

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The most humane thing you can possibly do is apply a blood choke. The flip side of that is there is no safe way to have a physical conflict with someone and try and subdue someone or deal with them in a fight. Every day people die all around the world from getting punched once. So I really loathe to second guests people like the marine and the other two men who from all for all intents, purposes it seems to me they were good Samaritans.

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