Posted by
strambo:
Kleanbore, if you crush someone's throat, whatever they were holding in their hand becomes irrelevant.
What he has already stuck into you, on the other hand, never becomes irrelevant.
They can grab my gun, I won't even try to stop it, I'll be...
Why would you ever expect an attacker moving at you from ten feet to grab your gun?
I do not concern myself with controlling someone's weapon, I couldn't care less...
If you are thinking about an
arms length encounter, I think you should reconsider that.
But you mentioned ten feet.
What I described is probably, objectively the safest way to handle a charging knife wielding attacker, ....
If he doesn't stab you first. I would not gamble on that. He is an
attacker, not a competitor in choreographed H2H combat.
If he is ten feet from you and is in the process of getting his blade into action before you even have a chance to start moving, worrying about striking his throat will not help you much.
Back to objective reality, you would be slamming your whole body mass into their throat at full speed...it will take them out of the fight, everything else is moot
If, and only if, you are not stabbed.
It is really not a "fight" (there is no starting buzzer, and he has the initiative), and what happens to him is only your concern insofar as it affects what happens to
you.
I believe it was you posting the thread about MacYoung's latest book "In The Name of Self Defense". Although he desperately needs a new editor, his background and knowledge is priceless. He discusses something very germane to what we are talking about,....
One of the germane things he discusses at some length is the kettle of fish in which a defendant would likely find himself if the evidence showed that he had moved toward the attacker. Did you miss that part?
The notion of being able to somehow "control" someone else's weapon and also somehow being able to counter-strike is the biggest fallacy I see in what is being taught out there. In a minute I could demo the impossibility of being able to control the knife hand of someone trying to shank you to death all-out...it isn't possible, so why try?
If you cannot stop him before he uses his weapon on you, keeping him from using it is your first priority.
Rob Pincus shows how to do it, but
only at at
very close range.
At ten feet or more, it probably won't work, he suggests a better approach.
His objective is to avoid getting hurt. That would be mine. He does it by
adding to the distance quickly to keep his blade from getting to you, and shooting as quickly as possible