Sobering reality: Gun vs Knife

I'm just going to karate chop them. Why even pull out the gun?
 
It's nice that some are rediscovering Tueller's Rule...

Defensively you're always at the disadvantage as the attacker has already decided to attack and you're trying to react and catch up. That's why you should try to put a barrier between you.
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I have preached this for so long. Once an attack has commenced, you have already been assessed, targeted and a plan has been made and executed. You are WAY behind the curve if you are only responding to the already initiated attack. Your counter should be explosive and violent to have any hope of catching up. Cause up to this point, you've already screwed up. (Awareness)

All I'm gather is that I should go ahead and draw on anybody I don't know within 20ft of me. I'm fine with that, but it should make Walmart trips more interesting.
The reality is that you don't interact with people at 21'. "Hey buddy, got at match?" People are going to be inside 21'. If you think about your comment, it shows single mindedness, meaning you consider it (as most do) a gun problem. A group I used to belong to studied, worked and trained on this. That's why the new field is called "combatives". At contact ranges, you'll likely need to go "hands on". There is literally not enough time or space to deploy any weapon. You have to create a "window" of time and space to deploy a weapon.

Nothing wrong with backpeddling a few steps while drawing.
Actually, there is. Backpeddling significantly increases your risk of tripping and falling. Also, you can't run backwards faster than the attacker running forward and it puts you in a sub-optimal postition for when he catches you. There are more directions than backward. (Direction of Force)

 
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@georgel , "backpeddling" or taking a couple steps back in order to shield and draw has its place, but like all tactics, it's not always the right thing to do, every time. I see that different as "backpeddling" to flee. Combatives is about as old as prostitution, but only relatively new as a logical sequence of training. For too long training has been parceled out: firearms, H2H (in whatever form), SA. Only until recently these things haven't been strung together as a formulated, sequential training program.

If someone pulls a knife/bat/club/whatever, and they start making tracks for you, the way to maximize your loop and minimize his is to close the circle, not try to expand, for all the reasons you mention. Yeah, as one of our colleagues elaborated, you're gonna get cut or walloped or whatever, but close-in fighting favors your physics, not his.
 
Tactical L retreat , adds lateral distance as well, not straight backpedal, but still a losing propostion. Do the best you can if you can't get a barrier between you. And, to agree totally with the above; get mentally engaged really early into the "hey, got a cigarette" scenario or somebody walking up on you while pumping gas. You'll never beat a blade or impact weapon at arms range; you've got to have the room to recognize, react, and execute an action ( three very different steps). Action will always beat reaction, every single time.
 
As we see in boxing/mma/etc.: moving forwards and backwards and sideways is necessary in fighting, or just about anything physical.
Imagine a boxer who can’t move backwards. Lol. A counter punchers wet dream.
 
I learned my lesson on how quickly I might need to be able to deploy some overwhelming force from being attacked by feral dogs. It was quick, real quick. Luckily I always had a long gun in my hands ready to blast some poor bird or deer when the dogs attacked and could get lead into them faster than they could get teeth into me. It would have been quite different if I had needed to pull out my pocket carry to defend myself.
 
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