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This is Jermaine Andre'. I train personal bodyguards and police officers and one of our main concerns is disarming attackers armed with a firearm. There were recent tests done on how long it takes to draw and accurately fire a firearm into a target and the average was two seconds. It was also determined that an individual with a knife at ten feet would make it to the person drawing the firearm and cut him before he could fire and this was drawing from the hip. Hence, a person who knows how to strike properly could take down a person with a weapon before he could draw and accurately fire. Furthermore, it does take time to draw a weapon and I train agents to go for the weapon while the person is attempting to draw it. Now I would never put hand to hand combat up against a drawn and properly aimed weapon unless you had no choice but to take a bullet and hope for your "dead man's ten seconds", but a properly trained and quick thinking unarmed individual does have a chance at taking down an armed individual. Especially if that armed individual puts all of his faith into thinking that he is automatically going to win just becasue he has a firearm. Remember also that a weapon has no loyalties to it's former owner.
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