{"id":549,"date":"2007-05-23T21:42:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2007-05-23T21:42:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:42:34","slug":"stay-close-to-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/stay-close-to-the-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay close to the Gun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video demonstrates why it is important to stay close to a gun when trying to defend yourself against an armed attacker.  Here we see an attorney use a tree to &#8220;dodge&#8221; the bullets!  This man had no self-defense training prior to this event but his quick instincts saved his life, the walked away with a grazing wounds but lived to talk about it.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H9zy37-_0LU\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object> <br \/>\nLately I have been seeing an increasing number of martial arts and safety &#8220;experts&#8221; telling people to run away in a zig-zag pattern or to move around a lot if confronted with a gun.  While this may sound like good advice I strongly disagree.  The only reason this worked in the above video was because the lawyer did not run away, he stayed close.  Your only real defense against a gun is available if you are within arms length of the gunman\/woman otherwise all bets are off.  In the end it is your call and no one should feel guilty for the way they may or may not respond in such a high stress situation but remember this lawyer, keep your cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video demonstrates why it is important to stay close to a gun when trying to defend yourself against an armed attacker. Here we see an attorney use a tree to &#8220;dodge&#8221; the bullets! This man had no self-defense training prior to this event but his quick instincts saved his life, the walked away with<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/stay-close-to-the-gun\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}