I'm getting a sense that two black belts has returned from the bowels of a Shaolin Temple veiled to us mere mortals by the inscrutable mists of Oriental time. A deeply humbling experience indeed.
I certainly hope this inspires some people to leave their guns home, or at the station house -- maybe just bring a condiment, and maybe Tommy Swift's electric pistol -- so we all can enjoy future bodycam footage that is more Walker : Tejas Rangerito, and less... how you say in America? Gunsmoke?.
Fair warning though, some Gentle Giant decides to run at me, dragging a pajama-boi, and I may well have to resort to Ching-Ching Pow.
Not a cop, not a badass, but most importantly not psychic, therefore unable to predict how many strikes to the head it would take to kill/cripple me. Sorry, not sorry. Play nice, or risk getting ****ed up.
That mentality might just land you behind bars the rest of your life. Having options are a good thing, being a coward is not.
Let's explore the "I'll just shoot 'em" mindset for a moment. I've heard that my whole life from insecure little men desperately seeking some source of comfort for their feelings of inadeqauency. I think perhaps they need a therapist more than a gun and of course, they are usually at arms length when uttering that statement and I point out that there is very little chance they would ever get the gun out should I decide I've had enough of their bravado.
Unless you are physically handicapped in some way, elderly or there is a disparity of force situation in a H2H scenario, the gun should probably stay put. I have no clue to your identify, but I'm operating under the assumption that you are an average adult male. I imagine most everyone would agree that a life behind bars or any significant sentence would really stink and it would be a shame to leave your family because you panicked and shot someone due to being scared.
The majority of people that are likely to launch an unarmed assault are not highly trained fighters, so assuming you are an average man, there isn't likely to be a subtanial enough disparity of force to warrant introducing deadly force. It's possible if you should find yourself mounted or perhaps grounded and under a barrage of strikes, but you going to jail or or least to trial is still very likely.
But, let's say you are just having a real bad day and a skilled MMA fighter decides he's going to remove your head from your body. While not necessarily highly probable, considering the current climate in MMA, it's much more likely than it once was. Amidst the frail skinny jean wearing millineal crowd is an MMA subculture that is fairly large and continually growing where steroid and drug use runs rampant. My involvement in MMA was primarily in the formative years when it was simply NHB. There were virtually no rules, but there was a lot more class and respect. I want no part of what I see going in a high percentage of the MMA gyms I visit.
So, one of these roided up fighters decides he's going to put a serious hurt on you and is completely out of his mind due to the cocktail of drugs he's on. Just shoot him? If your only training is square range, putting holes in paper type stuff, that might prove more difficult than you might think. First, you have to be able to get the gun out in a timely enough manner and second, you have to put enough effective shots on target to stop him before he gets ahold of you. And that's assuming there's separation to begin with and you have ample time to react. If it erupts at contact distance, it won't likely look anything like the OP's video. It's amazing how much punishment a big, strong determined attacker on drugs can take.
The point being is that these skills you seem to so frequently deride are a pretty vital component of self-defense preparedness in any scenario.
Look at how many shots were fired(including from long guns) at crazed ex-MMA fighter Amokrane Sabet and where he started vs where he ended up. Do you think you could have stopped him with just your carry handgun?
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFFsDD4luT4