Normally, I post on a weekly basis (since the start of 2025) a video showing an entangled fight involving a private citizen with weapons in play. This time, I am writing about a video where no fight happens because the two victims don’t fight back. However, it is still a super interesting and illustrative one because it clearly shows how most bad guys, even when they are armed with guns, conduct their actions.
As you can see, both bad guys have their handguns out at a distance as they start telling the two victims what they want them to do. They could certainly stay at that distance to get what they desire.
But they don’t. Instead, they of their own volition close the distance. Both bad guys do so and actually go hands on to both victims. This is a perfect opportunity for the victims to use a physical combatives skillset to fight back, but they don’t, and the most likely reason is because they have no conception of how to do that.
However, the point is that they could have because the BAD GUYS closed the distance to impose their will and get what they wanted. This is the most common behavior for criminals in this circumstance.
And for those who say that if the good guys were armed, they had distance to get their guns out and fight back that way, the chance of that being successful without one or both of the good guys getting shot is pretty small. The bad guys already had their guns out and never let their guard down until they went hands on. Almost certainly they would have had plenty of time and opportunity to fire before the good guys got their guns out.