What you say is true. Many on this forum could probably disarm the robber, but this clerk may not be trained to do so. If I was in his placeflintknapper wrote:Robber set himself up for an easy disarm on at least two occasions.
A "trained" person could have ended this quickly. Of course, I don't recommend fighting back unless you feel your life is in danger, but anytime someone "jacks you up" (shoves gun into your face/neck) you know they're not playing around.
Jason, Kinney, Tom, this is the real life scenario for the technique you guys practiced involving the outside wrist flex and disarm. Plenty of time in this case to assimilate what was happening and act. Robber almost immediately turns his attention and focus to the cash register (bad for him).
This robbery is also a good example (IMO) of how quickly you can be assaulted and find yourself under the gun. If circumstances were such that the first sign of danger was the BG coming over the counter, then going for your weapon might not be the best thing to do initially. I hope we made that point clear at the seminar.
Naturally, every situation will be different, and everyone needs to use their best judgment, but this guy was wide open.
Glad there was nothing more than a "beating" involved this time.
Take care all!
and I didn't have a gun I could get to I woud have done nothing to stop him. If the clerk had tried to use a cane or club and failed he probably
would have been shot. As it turned out he was ok.
There again as you said, it's a judgement case. We will say what we would do in a certain situation but we never know untill we are facewith it.