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Firearms are usually the most desirable weapons to employ in making a hit.
This would apply, as you shall see later, even when commercially made silencers are not available.
However, just as a good physician has many varieties of medicine available if his first choice fails to effect a cure, so the professional killer or assassin maintains an ability with a vast array of weapons and devices other than firearms.
When the most suitable choice of weaponry for a particular mission is an edged or piercing implement, the trained killer is proficient with this type of weapon as well.
Practical Facts About Edged Weapons
Although edged weapons have sometimes been rather repugnant to Anglo-Americans as tools of close combat, the fact is that only certain edged and piercing weapons would actually qualify as suitable for killing.
Guns may be less fearsome to most Americans, but they are more to be respected.
Remember that edged weapons, while effective, require much more training to be as certain as a firearm in terminating a target.
There are edged weapons and piercing implements that are not suitable or reliable in professional killing.
The razor is one example, including both safety and straight types. Razors make excellent combat weapons on occasion, but they are not to be chosen for the job when a bladed weapon is desired to make a quick kill.
Pocket knives, except for the larger folding hunter models that have at last four inch blades and that lock open, should not be considered for termination assignments.
Also, kitchen-type knives are contraindicated.
Linoleum knives, carpet knives and utility knives, while certainly efficient us improvised weapons of emergency self-defense in trained hands, are totally unsuitable as weapons for calculated killing.
In self-defense it is irrelevant if the opponent dies; what is important is that he is stopped, so that sufficient injury and/or pain is inflicted until he no longer presents a threat to the defender.
However, this is not true when engaged in killing.
When a kill is desired, a weapon that can be counted upon to end life must be chosen.
In this regard it is important to remind the student that the two most desirable methods of killing are inducing tremendous shock, and stopping breathing.
Bleeding is one means by which a person’s life may be ended, and in fact that is the only way death could be brought about by use of those bladed implements we have advised against.
They simply work too slow.
Even the most suitable edged and piercing weapons require great prowess to effect an efficient kill.
The prowess is a result of two things: a) physical-mental conditioning, and b) anatomically-correct application of the weapon against the target.
Good fighting knives kill primarily because of the shock they induce.
Loss of blood, as noted, tends to be a secondary effect.
Unfortunately, edged weapons depend to a great extent for their shocking ability on the user of the weapon,
However, proper use will enable the killer to get maximum shock-efficiency from his blade.
The key factor, aside from the technical choice of method, is: when that blade or piercing weapon is used one must commit 100% of his force and fury to the attack.
With less than a total commitment, there will be greatly reduced odds of a kill.
The Mental State
Because the professional killer can never be absolutely certain of how any particular assignment will require him to perform the killing act, there must be no blocks or aversions to any technique of killing.
The proper mental state of the professional should be one of detached commitment.
Feeling a target’s body squirm in agony, feeling warm blood on one’s face, clothing, hands, etc. and viewing the terrified, desperate eyes of the target as he struggles hysterically against one’s lethal proceedings must not be emotionally affecting for the true professional killer.
During training sessions continual efforts must be made to condition the student of killing to view the target as just that: a target.
To ever allow oneself second thoughts about humanity when assigned to a hit is to sabotage the ability one has to carry out the assignment.
Recommended Knives
There are several commercially-made knives that ideally suit the requirements of the killer.
Most highly recommended are the following:
Gerber’s Mark II Combat-Survival Knife
This is the best factory-produced combat knife made.
It is an improvement over the original Fairbairn-Sykes Commando knife; the handle is better adapted for correct grip, the blade is heftier.
It is razor sharp and will kill cleanly and well.Gerber’s Mark I Boot-type Combat Knife
This is an exceedingly fine knife, but is suitable for limited purposes only.
It will kill effectively when used properly, but its shorter, lighter blade makes it second to the Mark II.Sheffield’s British Commando Knife
The modern version of the WWII F&S fighting knife is the British Commando Knife, made in Sheffield, England, and sold throughout the United States for under forty dollars.
This knife is perfect for silent, quick kills at close quarters.
Remember that killing is not fighting; and while a knife designed for hand-to-hand combat can definitely be a Bowie, a knife designed for quick, surprise Kills should be a dagger.
In addition ta the knives recommended, we cannot miss discussing one of the more important killing implements: the ice pick.
An ice pick, or a knife designed along similar lines is ideal for silent killing.
It lacks the prestige of the more expensive and well-made fighting blades, but that hardly matters as far as the pro is concerned.
The professional is after results, not appearances.
For penetration of the top of the head, or piercing the throat, side of the neck, eye, ear, kidney, and spleen, the ice pick is perfect.
It stands little chance of ever being deflected by bone due to its very thin pick blade.
Yet it is sharp enough at the point to pierce any tissue within the human body that it contacts.
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