Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: Difference between revisions

* This may be inverted in [[Real Life]], but only with a lot of caveats. The famous [[wikipedia:Tueller Drill|Tueller Drill]] is founded on the idea that 21 feet is the distance at which an average person with a melee weapon becomes a threat to someone with a '''holstered''' gun and that beyond that, a potential gunman can draw and shoot without getting stabbed at all. Somehow it later got [[Common Knowledge]]d into a notion of the knife "winning" from some distance below that, which is very far from reality; someone with a gun is a lethal threat from maximum effective range down to 0.0m. The actual chance of the melee assailant both executing a stab and not taking severe return fire afterwards - and the human body is all but guaranteed to retain motor functions to complete draw-and-shoot unless the hit strikes somewhere critical - are never ones you'd want to bet on. Granted, there are many potential complicating factors, including but not limited to the speed of the melee assailant, the draw speed of the gunman, and their individual skills with their weapons. Larger melee weapons do have higher odds of interfering with return fire, though certainly not enough to make it a sure thing or even a particularly good idea, and the increased encumbrance also complicates the issue of successfully reaching the gunman. All bets are off if trying to thwart an active shooter who already is on the attack, of course. In other words, there are techniques to defend against a knife-wielding runner-in, but no sane martial training suggests knife-wielding running-in as a viable method of countering a firearm. [[Taking You with Me|More than once in one's life, anyways.]] '''[[Don't Try This At Home]]!'''