I recently heard a prominent member of the firearms community comment publicly that “we don’t see grappling happen on the street”. I can only conclude from this that said person is either woefully dumb or willfully ignorant.
Trying to be positive on this, perhaps they are just looking at violence and criminal activity through a narrow lens of firearms, and the only thing of consequence is gun related. While this is understandable, it does not make it okay. Telling the public that grappling does not happen and they don’t need to worry about it will get good people hurt or even killed.
Just to show how foolish this attitude is, here is a video that just came past my feed, and just occurred in NYC. Take a look and tell me what you see.
No guns involved but there is still violence and it most assuredly is a grappling situation. It is even called that by the reporter. Not only is it from NYC where being able to carry a weapon as a private citizen is near impossible, I will be willing to bet that the company she is working at has a specific non-weapons policy. She has few options, and the job itself forces her to be at close range to customers, so it is no surprise to those who have a truly open minded approach to what actually occurs in the real world that when the bad guy wants to take what he wants, and goes to physically impose his threats on her, it becomes an entanglement, and more so a ground fight because those who don’t grapple are far more likely to go to the ground when they don’t want to.
The only thing that saved this woman from death or grave injury was that the criminal did not push it that far. He easily could have.
I would really like the internet expert have a face to face meeting with this woman so he could tell her why her scenario did not actually happen…….