Ragnarok.Leysritt said:
»Defending yourself against a knife is a million times easier than defending yourself against a gun.
Exactly
not at all.
You want to bet? Can you catch a bullet? Can you get in close fast enough before they put a round somewhere in your body? With a knife you can somewhat predict what they'll do by the motions of their body. If they pull their arm backwards, 9/10 times the attacker is going to be trying to lunge and stab you. With a gun? All you have to go by are tiny signals like hand shaking, breathing, and that finger motion on the trigger. But you more often than not, no way in hell does someone have the reaction time to predict and dodge a bullet midfire, by then the bullet has left the handgun and is impacting into your chest, stomach, shoulder, thigh, or worse, your head.
With a knife, you can sidestep, grab their wrist, twist it while you punch them in the stomach or throat (depriving them of wind and thus making it easier to get the knife from their hand) and then it's a matter of making sure they don't get that knife back in their hands.
The first move is the riskiest, but it's not as bad with a knife as it is with a gun.
Being taught this by a police officer, you start to understand what they have to go through when they are dealing with some junkie with a switch blade on the streets and they can't use a firearm and instead have to do non-lethal takedowns.
