What happens with unarmed men and an armed trained gunman?

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You don’t have to worry about all that fancy sparring b.s. because your attacker will be standing right next to you completely exposed. At this point he will probably be grabbing you with one hand and punching you with the other, but as long as you’re still conscious you can turn the tables. All you have to do is locate one vulnerable area on his body and hit it as hard as you can.

For aggressors that might attack on the street, or in a convenience store, or in any setting that doesn’t call for heroism or self-sacrifice, self defense is a must. It is a great skill to learn in order to gain an advantage against simple-minded predators and the like, who only anticipate passivity or else inundating fear. As terrorism isn’t as common as instances as such are, and since more people spend time alone on foot than they do in an airplane, to learn self defense is more practical than it is over the top. For all else, you should learn martial arts as the appropriate way to keep criminals in check.

Let’s say you’re bent over and he’s repeatedly punching you in the back. While he’s doing this you look up and see his eye so you simply step into him and jam your finger into his eye as hard as you can and push as aggressively as possible. You’ve just collapsed the dome of his eyeball and now his optic fluid is running down your arm as he drops to the ground, grabs his eye, and begins screaming, giving you a chance to run away.

Immediately after 9/11 happened, flight attendants and frequent travelers everywhere felt compelled to learn self defense. It was a bit of an anomaly, but it wasn’t unjustified. After terrorists had seized control of seemingly impenetrable cockpits as well as the lives of helpless, not to mention innocent, passengers, everyone wanted to ensure that such would never happen again. They wanted to take it into their own hands, as apparently on-plane marshals and pre-boarding security was too inept to prevent a revisit of such horrors.