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Avinash_Tyagi said:

truthiness said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Why would you need the gun, attack the arm wielding the knife, he'll drop the knife and then you can kick his but

I love when people assume fending off someone with a knife only requires "attack the arm wielding a knife." It's really not that easy. To show this, find a friend and give him a red marker, and tell him to act like its a knife. Most likely you will have atleast a few red marks, most of which would either disable you or kill you. That's under the best case scenario where you aren't scared whitless from being attacked by a guy with a knife.

 

 

Not really the same thing, i mean you wouldn't treat your friend the same way, with your friend you would be more trying to snatch the knife from their hand, you wouldn't smash their arm with the intent to break and disable it (at least I wouldn't do that to a friend), but with an attacker you would have no such qualms about being ruthless

Fine, go to a self defense class, and ask the trainer about it. Find the premier trainer, and ask him. He will tell you without a lot of training, you will die. All the guy has to do is hit you once or twice and you will most likely due. And "smashing their arm," I don't know if you've tried, is not all that easy. Breaking their arm is also absurdly hard, and unless you are extremely strong, it won't happen. However, if you are Rambo without guns, go ahead in that fantasy. 

 The simple fact is that you won't be able to put enough power into a blow, while at the same time blocking the knife (assuming you don't want to die), is that you won't do enough damage to make him drop the knife. If you were into judo this wouldn't be so much of an issue, but then again you wouldn't be trying to smash his arm.