Elite Knife Fighter vs Elite Gun Fighter - RAW, UNCUT, NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE
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Length: 10min 54sec (654 seconds)
Published: Tue Dec 03 2013
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Having been an LEO (and a martial artist, and a knife-guy) for a long time, I have many thoughts on the subject. As noted, this “21 foot rule” is drilled into the heads of police recruits at the academy level. I feel this has led to numbers of unnecessary police shootings, some of which are highly controversial. “Guy with a knife! Danger! Shoot!”
Indeed, most of the videos and demonstrations we’ve seen, just as Doug notes, indicate a disparity. The knife guy (Dan Inosanto!) is a top-of-the-line expert, whilst the typical police officer shown is at best... Inept.
The Mythbusters played with this, and had Adam (with the “gun”) drawing and actually working the action of his “pistol” before firing, and it was still a draw on most attempts. No one (no one in his right mind, that is) carries their weapon without a round in the tube and ready to go. There are those of us who have trained long and hard to develop a fast and accurate “presentation” of the firearm. When I was just a young lad, still in the army, I read Bill Jordan’s famous “No Second Place Winner” book about police gunfighting.
Jordan could draw, fire, and hit the K-zone of a standard silhouette target at 7 yards....In .27 seconds. Including reaction time....
I never got that fast but during the long period we carried revolvers, I could achieve .5 seconds. Modern police holsters and autopistols tend to be a tad slower, but our present rigs allow a very fast draw as well. If you watch some of the combat pistol competition shooting, you’ll see what’s possible with practice.
Another thing.... Knives are certainly capable of being deadly. But in most of these demonstrations the knife guy is imitating a stab and then the scenario goes “red”. (Action stops) In reality, with 13-17 rounds in most autopistols, the guy with the gun might take a knife wound but would be emptying his pistol into the knife-guy at the same time. Who “wins”? Gunman goes to the hospital for sutures, knife-guy goes to the morgue.
3m is actually only 9ft ish... 21 ft is roughly 7m.
This topic seems to come up lately on how deadly a knife is against someone is trained in using firearms. So I'm going to re-stated something I posted earlier.
The police keeps great records of who've perished among their ranks and in what circumstance.
In the US there are an average 1 million police officers on duty per year (that's a quick google search). On the website https://www.odmp.org/ Since 2000, only 14 police officers on duty with firearms in the US were fatally stabbed.
Think about that for a second. Of the thousands of violent non-firearms weapon incidents in the last 17 years, only 14 cases created a fatal result.
Conclude how you wish, I believe a reasonably trained shooter can stop an average knife attacker in the vast majority of cases.
Who's instructor zero? Sounds /r/iamverybadass
Since Reddit ate my discussion on the video... here's another go at it.
I'd like to see this experiment done with simunition, marking or shock knives, and people who are willing to hit and grapple each other.
The 'one poke vs one shot' thing, though part of the tueller sçenario, is pretty artificial. Any one willing stab or shoot someone is going to do it more than once. They're also going to be willi g to engage in grappling, striking, shoving, grabbing weapons, etc. That should be factored in.
There's also the issue of inertia. Even if you put a hole into the 200 lbs of angry guy charging you, you're unlikely to stop them dead in their tracks, meaning you still need to be able to deal with that stabbing, slashing adrenaline fuelled impact. Weird little trick shooting poses aren't going to help that.
The 21ft/3m "rule" assumes an average law enforcement officer and an average person with a knife.
The fact that sometimes a "Elite Gun Fighter" can get the upperhand doesn't really do anything to change how law enforcement should apply the rule.