Lat night we did a special class dealing with gun and knife "defence". A student of ours is a senior agent with the FBI and he and I sat and talked for quite a while about this issue. He has been in charge of numerous "swat" and "special enforcement" teams, and has seen quite a bit of action. We talked about the theories of disarming a gunman. Quite frankly I want to say it should never be tried, unless your going to be shot, but we had a great discussion on it. We talked about how hard it is to shoot a moving target for the untrained individual. It was very interesting and I thought I would like to hear what you guys thoughts and ideas are on dealing with a gun or knife weilding opponent. Do you guys ever train in it? Do you think its worth training in? Is it possible to even defend agaisnt a knife or gun? We have had discussion in the past about these issues, but having not been done in a while, I would like to get the thoughts of CMAist as well as others. I'm specifically talkin about empty hand. You without a weapon and them having a gun or knife.
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