Quote Originally Posted by Jer View Post
I get the saying but you're missing the point. Instead of a hammer maybe I should have said Leatherman. It won't do any one job better than the individual tool but it will do good enough to get me out of 99.99% of situations. Sure I could get each tool individually and learn to use it extensively so I'm a pro with it in case that task ever comes along but if it starts taking time from learning to use the Leatherman or brings a moment of hesitation when normally I'd just reach for the Leatherman.... there is a downside to adding all those additional tools. Also, I didn't say I don't know how to handle myself hand to hand (and I do have momentum and Inertia on my side at my size) but I don't see paying to take a class specifically on disarming an armed bad guy as a valuable use of my time or money. You can be plenty proficient in hand to hand combat w/o knowing how to strip a firearm from an armed assailant and I think some in this thread are losing focus of that. If he's armed and I am I'm looking for an opportunity to neutralize the threat with my firearm which will do the job just as well as my bare hands... probably better. That's the only point I'm trying to make here. If you have endless resources (money and time) then go right ahead. I think we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves to say that this is critical training we must all have. It's not.


I think we're on the same page here. I carry on a daily basis. I also have some kind of knife on my person whenever I am awake and upright. I don't think spending a lot of time(and money) on learning disarming techniques that aren't useful in other scenarios is particularly beneficial, but learning the basics of redirecting the firearm/knife/broken bottle and using leverage to neutralize it is not a bad thing. The actual tool you use to defend yourself is irrelevant. YOU are the weapon, the rest is situational.