So we have another recent entangled fight where a firearm was in play, and only involved private citizens.
Some interesting points to consider.
- The bad guys made the commitment to become attached to the good guy, and did so before he was able to get his gun out. This is a very typical approach by bad guys, especially since neither of them seemed to be armed themselves, so their entire methodology of achieving their goal would have to be in contact and apply physical force to get what they wanted. Keep this in mind when people on the internet insist that entanglements on the street don’t happen, and that bad guys don’t act this way. I would like one of these commentators to explain how a violent criminal actor who is not armed with a gun will try to accomplish his goals?
- The good guy was extremely fortunate that the bad guys violated the first rule of real world grappling by not monitoring or controlling the other person’s hands. If just one of them had grabbed over the arms, the good guy would not have had the ability to draw.
- And the good guy was even more blessed in that he got a good hit by pointing the gun vaguely behind him with no visual of physical indexing, and had only a partial grasp of where the bad guy was positioned to get a fight stopping hit. No reasonable firearms instructor would teach to shoot this way, nor to expect a single round stop, So anyone trying to take away from this that grappling training is not needed would be making an insanely foolish mistake.
- Look at the environment. For those who would pontificate about how to avoid the entanglement by bleating to “make space” or “break contact”, where and how is that possible? This is a sidewalk with a hard border of buildings on one side, traffic in the street on the other, and tons of the typical objects that exist on any city street in America.
We need to learn from these actual incidents, and understand them to be truly prepared. Unless your plan is to hope that you will get lucky like this guy. Not what I would call a smart option.