But he insists the same is true of violent muggings. To illustrate this he leans on the somewhat extreme example of the Virginia Tech shootings, when 32 people at the American university were shot dead by fellow student Seung-Hui Cho. It is the ordinary citizen's unwillingness to resort to violence when the chips are truly down that leave us vulnerable. Those are the events that I am talking about, those are the events that people come to me for." "Asocial behaviour is where the head drops, the knives come out, nobody talks, and you're just trying to end another human being.
"In antisocial behaviour we may goad each other, we may push each other, but we're still communicating," he says. He teaches his clients to categorise violence in two ways: antisocial and asocial violence. "Generally if there's choice in the matter, most likely it's the wrong time to respond." The key, he insists, is knowing and teaching people when to respond to violence with violence. Most of the time you're facing someone who is going to use a disproportionate level of violence, and most likely you'll be facing multiple attackers." Mr Larkin's response is typically uncompromising: "Here's the issue with 'proportionate response': it is a great theory, but the only ones who are actually concerned by it are law-abiding citizens.
While his techniques might be useful to elite soldiers or undercover drug enforcement officers, must civilians really be armed with such knowledge? After all, everyday citizens have a right to defend themselves, but only if it that response is proportionate. Instead he joined military intelligence, and began working with the Seals on developing their fighting techniques. The father-of-one joined the US Navy in his teens and missed out on graduating as a Seal following a diving accident which lacerated both his ear drums. Most of what he teaches comes from his military background.
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