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The 21-Foot Handgun Drill is Bullshit, Always Has Been

This drill unfolds as follows: a guy with a knife in hand initiates an attack and usually "wins", meaning he touches the gun guy with a fake knife before the gun guy can fake shoot the knife guy.

As if that is a "kill". As if the gun guy can't now shoot the knife guy many, many times. But that isn't even the real bullshit.

Have the knife guy put the knife in a scabbard, and let the gun guy initiate the attack. The bull 💩 becomes instantly obvious. The real lesson is that the attacker, in all situations, tends to have the advantage. This is true from a street attack all the way up to state-on-state military conflict.

The attacker doesn't always win but, statistically, wins far more often than not. Look at every major war in history, and you'll see this is the case. In fact, the nations that we often say "lost" — like Germany in WWII — only lost when they stopped being the attacker and became the defender.

Some reading this won't like it because it grates against the "taught truth", but the taught truth is taught because it's seldom simply true. It is, instead, a construct that generally is false. In many instances, it's the truth hiding in a lie, as it is here.

What the drill should teach you is that having a gun doesn't guarantee you'll survive or win in a fight, even if your attacker doesn't have one. Substitute a hammer for the knife, and the attack becomes even more potentially deadly. You're more likely to survive a stab wound than a blow to the head with a ball peen hammer that can be bought in any hardware store for under 20 bucks.

You could be a Navy SEAL, a Green Beret — it doesn't matter. If someone wants you dead and you don't know it, you're likely dead. The most badass soldier you know can be approached from behind and hit in the head, resulting in death in less than a second. People hate this type of truth because it makes them realize how at risk they really are. That's the point of the 21-foot drill, but most people who teach it don't understand the real lesson.

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Not my name 2y ago

Have you seen many head wounds?

They’re a pretty heterogenous group. Same goes for stabbing victims.

I’ve seen someone missing half their head survive, while someone with a seemingly small single puncture wound from a screwdriver dies. The reverse is also true. Small head trauma dies, multiple stab wounds victim survives.

Often less about the weapon, more about skill/luck of the wielder and/or bad luck of the victim.

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Jack Spirko 2y ago

What I have seen is what a ball peen hammer does to a head, right though the skull like it wasn't there. Anyone who lives after that will likely wish they had not. There are exceptions to everything of course.

Jack Spirko 2y ago

Example, in Jacksonville when I was a kid a guy robbed a store with a handgun. Wrong store, clerk pulled a shot gun and blew half the guys head off (literally). The guy ran about 4 blocks with half a head and then fell over stone dead. He could have killed or shot people long before dying. Still a shotgun to the head is 99% of the time instant lights out.

This was a good day BTW for good people. The fuck bag that got his head blown off had the week before robbed a store and killed the clerk. The clerk was a woman and there was a customer who was there and was a witness. The scum bag got the money, put the gun to the women's eye, winked at the witness and shot her right in front of him and left without saying a word.

If only he'd of had a 00 haircut a week earlier.

Art By Leigh Murphy 2y ago

I think I remember that one. Here’s something similar. That pic I posted on MeWe of the creeper in my backyard- I’m fairly sure it’s the guy who’s wanted for fatally stabbing someone two streets away about a week later. His victim didn’t die on the spot even though his multiple wounds were clearly going to be fatal. The victim made it several blocks before collapsing and dying. TV and the movies have completely twisted our perceptions of what guns, knives, and any potentially fatal weapon actually does. I know two people still alive who survived point blank shots- one a 357 to the chest and another a 22 to the head, but they beat huge odds.