OMG Guns Everywhere

[Chas]

Anywhere on the body a .22LR can kill you, an 8" blade will, too. Not vice versa.

Perhaps, but an 8" blade is harmless from any distance greater than about four feet from the wielder. I think this consideration makes your claim insignificant.

Farther than that. An attacker can close a distance of 21 ft. in 1.5 sec. - the time it takes to draw a firearm and fire two shots.

This is known as "The 21-foot Rule". However, the latest analysis says that it should be an even greater distance.

Research by Dr. Bill Lewinski of The Force Science Research Center and Dr. Marvin Fackler has repeatedly shown that officer reaction times are significantly longer than commonly believed.

Now consider that the officers on the Calibre tape knew where the suspect was, what he was armed with, and that he was about to charge. On the tape, the suspect begins to move and the officer begins to draw. That eliminates the real-world delays of perceiving the threat and then making the decision to defend with gunfire.

The Force Science Research Center has shown that it takes the average officer about half a second to perceive a threat and approximately another half second to decide what to do about it. All of this has to happen before the officer begins his or her draw stroke. What this means is that with the threat closing at seven feet per half second, we are closer to a 35-foot rule.

And it is extremely difficult to smoothly draw and accurately fire when under a life-threatening attack. So that means that we had better add another 10 feet to allow for the attacker to keep coming if we miss center mass or even if we hit him, even mortally wound him, and he doesn't go down.

It's now the 45-foot rule.