damagefactor wrote:
True there may be some criminals that fit your descriptions, but please show me the last time a gang was stacked up outside someones house during a break-in.
Being a victim of a home invasion robbery back in 1998 was what started me down this path. I don't know what you think qualifies as a "gang" but 4 against one proved to be too much for me to handle.
Like mercop stated,
TRAINING OVER TOOLS.
If you want to believe that every violent encounter is clearly defined at the outset, and that the distances involved allow for artifacts such as the Mozambique drill to be reliable and expedient; that is your prerogative.
I personally don't believe it. My personal experiences refutes it, my research contradicts it, and nearly all the experienced professionals I've interacted with did not believe it either.
I really don't want to hijack the thread, but it seems wildly out of sync with reality.
If we want to address "civilian" self defense then why aren't we addressing civilian self defense?
How many accounts of armed citizens performing Mozambique drills on deranged assailants really exist? My educated guess is few to none.
How often to we read about mugging, carjacking, rape, and robbery? I do believe the answer is daily, the frequency is geography dependent for sure, but these crimes are ubiquitous in our society.
So maybe we should focus on the anatomy of criminal assault and the common tactics that predators use when selecting their prey. Maybe we could also consider the distraction and deception techniques used to close distance and confuse the victim.
And after giving all of these variables serious and realistic consideration coupled with a bit of basic empiricism, we could even compile our observations into a subforum and call it Strategies and Tactics.