When running isn't an option, 'your best mode of defense is offense'
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The escalating number of mass shootings across the country has police agencies giving new advice to principals, teachers and students. Running and hiding are the best responses, but if those aren't options, your last resort is to fight back.
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I thought you were supposed to use scissors and ballpoint pens to defend yourself?
What I like about this is, don't just stand there an be a victim.
 Do what you have to save yourself and to save others.Â
I think the point of all this is to let people know that they don't have to be powerless in this situation.
Of course if there is considerable distance between you and the assailant, your odds of survival increase with the more distance you put between you and the perpetrator.
@The ResistanceI agree, but the truth of the matter is:  There are people that are incapable of mustering the will to, "Jump on the grenade" if you will in these types of situations.  Having been in the military, and in multiple combat situations, I can tell you that there are people that are capable of this, and there are those that will hide no matter what is happening.  It is simply not in their nature to take action when being fired on.  Being shot at is scary stuff, trust me.  It's kind of like the old movie quote that goes, "When somebody points a gun at you, you have two options:  Die, or Kill the mofo."  I have seen people get shot at and cower and die, and I have seen some of the most amazing bravery imaginable.  It's basically what is in your nature that controls this I think.
that was a nice suplex he did on her
If all else fails place your head down between your legs and kiss your *** goodbye
@Ghetto Baby Couldn't have said it better myself. Turn out the lights and hide in the corner, don't you know bullets can't see in the dark.
Two to the chest, two to the head. Â Seems pretty simple to me. Â
Usually what I do in times of great stress is to curl up in a fetal position on the floor and scream like a wailing baby, all the time kicking my feet up in the air. Most people don't want to see this and just leave. My wife did.
Shouldn't you just press the right stick button to dodge? If that fails just press the right shoulder button to melee.
Bad things happen to good people who do nothing.
Dang, that gold gun is Gangsta!
What happens when you're too old to fight and to fat to run?
@Ralphie What happens to the weakest of any species?
@Playanekes Get a gun
@Bert @Playanekes Give peace a chance!
...We'll cover you if you get shot.
The crap your pants method works too. Nobody wants to be near that.
@Beergod sam adams - he gave it to us good
Distance & cover..Â
lol... if some one ever pulls a gun on me. i hope this guy is around to draw the fire and take a few of those bullets while im getting away. hhmm or this guy cld get us both killed..but not before sharing a wtf?? and a good chuckle with the bad guy..lol
@LordBear LOL! Lose a couple hundred pounds first, LordFatso. You talk about getting away, but you look so wide in your profile pic there, I don't know how you expect to get away from anyone.Â
@LordBear @LordBear The Marines have successfully used these tactics in combat, and demonstrate them to recruits under the new MCMAP system. Not only did a Marine teach it to me (two years ago), I was able to turn around and use the same move on him. Of course, there's no time to think about it.
There is much value to this, and an elderly person might not be able to pull it off but a younger person with sufficent training stands as good of a chance of using up the guy's bullets as the shooter has killing mass people at that point.
Me? I'd find cover and blast him. But if that's not an option I'm not a thumb-sucker.
Back when I was a ninja I would have gone karate kid on the bad guy. Nowdays I'd just shoot him.
@2012 Hope and Change You were never a ninja. These people are legitimate martial artists with better training and physical condition than 99%% of the people reading this.
I'm not sure that convinces me that I could remember how to do that in the moment. But the crazy-walk and forward-attack concepts are as old as the Hoplite warriors of ancient Greece, and stand the test of time.
My preference would be the hop drop roll with a  forward cartwheel followed by a sideways back kick and weapon grab. This way nobody gets hurt except maybe at the most a stuck zipper and some missing buttons!
The laws are a joke (running away). When someone is threatening your life the last thing you should have to worry about is whether or not your next move is going to violate the law.
And unless you can move at the speed of light I would recommend not lunging at the attacker unless you are absolutely certain they are really going to hurt you.
I usually just judi chop em in the neck.
This is the the funniest piece of garbage I have ever seen on K2! LMAO
Not even Jackie Chan could accomplish that comical set of moves without having holes blown in him let alone this old numbskull. Oh, and nice add there at the end by the pseudo reporter, "don't go for the gun because it could burn your or cut you up" HA! the laughs just keep rolling!
OK, now that everyone who watched that is a bazillion degree super ninja black belt with the power of invisibility, remember to sue K2 after you are shot trying this asinine crap.
Best option when running isnt a possibility is to just pull your concealed pistol and blast the SOB.
@Jack_Bauer"don't go for the gun because it could burn you or cut you up" is very basic training, and besides, it's just common sense. What happens is, when people do those conventional disarms where they grab the gun, they get injured because most of those "techniques" were devised by people who hadn't actually trained with real firearms. Realize that, when you grab a real gun while someone's finger is on the trigger, it often goes off. The slide slams back, it takes some of your skin off, and the discharge from the gunpowder burns you. If you ever watch an episode of 24, the Jack Bauer character does a few empty hand disarms, but he never actually goes for the gun. That's because the fight choreographer they hired on that show had military training and knew that you "don't go for the gun because it could burn you or cut you up." Really, this is some very basic stuff you're laughing at. That said, I agree with you that no one should try a technique they see on a short news clip. I also agree that you have better odds with your concealed pistol than with any Jujitsu or martial arts techniques.Â
@Ibn Al Khawadja @Jack_Bauer My point is that even a pretty well trained individual is not going to have a chance to execute any kind of disarming ninja trick like this. And that if your last chance effort is to grab for something to throw the shooter off then grabbing a hot barrel is really inconsequential compared to the perp just emptying his magazine into you. Same with a cycling slide. That injury is again preferable to giving the guy a clean shot at your melon.Â
Even the best trained expert will have a very hard time grabbing a hand or wrist under duress, at speed. They would have to be prepared to operate after actually grasping the weapon even it if wasn't their intent. To me, suggesting that you average mall shopper/octogenarian is going to be able to effect even the simplest of acts demonstrated here is a real belly laugh. Im surprised neither one broke a hip filming this segment! LOL
@Ibn Al Khawadja Fascinating. The Marine point-blank technique requires you to grab the gun and take the pain. Also, it's probably going to go off, but at an angle 45 degrees or so to your head. There's a couple of wildly undesirable things in my opinion, but, if nothing it underscores the split-second mortality of, say, getting robbed at an ATM.
Most people, I would hazard, are more likely to laugh at the prospect of disarming a point-blank attacker and shooting him through the head with his own weapon--I'm not even sure it's legal--but, men and women around the world do it in close-quarters combat.
By the way, there's a video series by an ex-Russian Spec-ops that shows you various things you can do against an AK-47 such as closing on a shooter and killing him with it, shooting on the move, bayonet tricks, using the hinge to crush people's fingers... yikes. Stuff I've never seen before.
@Playanekes @Ibn Al Khawadja There are a host of techniques taught for disarming in CQB. I am not aware of many experienced reviews on how effective they are in real life situations. Wonder why? LOL
I have seen many work against rubber knives and blue guns though.Â
But this video could have been a Saturday Night Live skit, from back when it was funny. ;-)
You don't always have a concealed pistol on you, even if you like people to think you do.
To the average bread-loaf civilian American-Idol-watching fat-body, the idea of mowing their own lawn is difficult. Really, though, these people need eliminated anyway. I'm all in favor of shedding the American flab.
You should see what the Marines are using these days. I got ripped off. The h2h training that they're deploying is what separates their WOMEN from the average slime-bag American man. Hail Sparta.
According to the University of Colorado the best way to deter your attacker is to tell them you have a disease or are menstruating or to vomit or pee. Yea, like that's going to stop an attacker.
http://www.ibtimes.com/colorado-college-advises-vomiting-or-urinating-stop-rapists-after-lawmakers-pass-gun-control-bills
That's to prevent rapists, and yes it just might. Tell them you have HIV.
@Oregon7812 Doubtful.....
I still would rather shoot back.
Yup! Why run and get tired out before you get beat up. Stand your ground and fight!