Place two average but manly 20 year olds in a typical furnished apartment, and give one a knife, and tell them the killing is on, well, what you have is an athletic competition, and you don’t know what the result will be, or how long it will take to find out who wins, or even if they won’t both survive the contest, with injuries and exhaustion.
Replace that knife with a pistol, and the outcome is more predictable, actually, the one with the pistol can be replaced by just about any person, male, female, old, young, as long as they are manly enough to pull the trigger, and the outcome is still predictable.
Knives scare people, but a fighter knows that when the other guy only has a knife, then he is still a long, long, long, way from killing you.
Place two average but manly 20 year olds in a typical furnished apartment, and give one a knife, and tell them the killing is on, well, what you have is an athletic competition, and you don’t know what the result will be, or how long it will take to find out who wins, or even if they won’t both survive the contest, with injuries and exhaustion.
Replace that knife with a pistol, and the outcome is more predictable, actually, the one with the pistol can be replaced by just about any person, male, female, old, young, as long as they are manly enough to pull the trigger, and the outcome is still predictable.
Knives scare people, but a fighter knows that when the other guy only has a knife, then he is still a long, long, long, way from killing you.
Not correct.
There are several videos where the participants are capable shooters.
The attacker stands 21 ft. from the armed person.
The attacker charges the armed person and gets him every single time before he can draw.
And this is in a situation where the armed person KNOWS that he will be charged. No element of surprise.
Now here is the problem for the shooter...his gun is still in the holster or maybe partialy drawn. At that point, he is totally at the mercy of the knife. The attacker does NOT have to be Jim Bowie because he has the total upper hand unless the shooter is a highly experienced hand to hand fighter.
I don’t have the link, but facts are facts and the videos are there.
This is why cops so readily shoot a knife threat.
Mooma may go on TV and talk about how her boy was such a good boy and the cops should have just taken the knife away from him and not shot him, but they know better.
No cop is going to let a knife get within 21 ft. of him.
The idea that knives are not dangerous compared to guns is BS.