His strong arm was hurt when he was slammed against the car so he wasn't able to retain his weapon.
Think about this when you are training, choosing how you carry your pistol and what type of holster you may use. It could save your life.
I am not sure how I am going to be able to make a gun and holster selection based on this particular type of impacted disability what would also allow for other types of disability and not significantly hinder gun access when not disabled.
I wonder what type of injury made him unable to use his arm? Unless it was broken it looks like it might be a case of lack of will power to totally submit after first contact.
Good example of what to expect in an attack though. Aside from having a gun this guy seems to have been poorly prepared to survive, this is mere speculation on my part with only the article to formulate an opinion but he was taken out of the game pretty early.
He was probably like 90% of the people now-a-days...
Face buried in a smart phone not paying attention to anything.
Wow, with no other information, I see we have the victim fully classified with being in condition white and with no will power (too scared) to fight.
Injuries that would cause a lack of arm use other than breaks? Dislocation of the shoulder, elbow, or wrist, torn muscles, pinched or damages nerves, all of which are possible with impact injuries.
Just for giggles and grins, next time y'all take a class and have an instructor tell you how s/he is always in condition yellow and knows what is going on around her/him all the time, see how many times you can approach from behind and shoot them with your finger gun or hit them with your imaginary knife. It doesn't make them happy because it reflects that they cannot indeed always being in the condition of readiness that they claim.
Way back around 2002-2004, Dane Burns provided instruction as part of a Rangemaster class in Dallas. God bless poor Dane. He talked about how he had all sorts of martial arts training and had developed a sixth sense to understand what was happening around him. At lunch at a local Subway eatery, I spied Dane at a table with two other students and I walked over to ask a question. He was recounting his skills to the two students as I stood by patiently, then got impatient. The students were great. They saw me but didn't blow my cover until one started snickering as I went through several movements of feigned aggression and then trying to get as close to him as possible without touching him.
I have done this sort of awareness test with two others. They were not happy as they had proclaimed their total awareness that they obviously did not have. It makes them look bad, or so they think, but the problem was in their claims, not their lack of awareness. Even the best professionals are not on top of their game every moment of every day.
As John Blitz noted, you can't control the area around you. 21 feet is an ideal, but one that I would suggest is actually still too close and if you can't control it with just one person from one direction, then you sure as heck can't control it from all directions. And while attacks are often preceded by certain 'tells,' many of the tells that precede attacks are completely normal behaviors. However, not all attacks are preceded in such a manner.
