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"Whats up with the Tueller Drill? And can sombody with a knive and cut you in 21 feet before you can averagely draw...?

Yes. A reasonably athletic person can charge and reach you, providing there are no obstacles in his path, faster than you, standing there and not moving an inch to either side nor backing up, nor doing anything but trying to draw, can stop the advance via the discharge of a firearm.

Happen a lot? Wide open path between you and a suddenly knife-wielding thug? Who for some reason decides that once he's within 21' just positively, absolutely, has to stab you? How's about a baseball team on their way from practice. All deciding to take a swing with a bat as they pass by. A rogue soccer mom who kneecaps your ass as she crosses your path. That old gargoyle atop the library building aching to fall just as you walk beneath it. The Space Shuttle veering off course and plunging into your backyard while you're busy firing up the grill. Pluto deciding it's high time for revenge on no longer being a planet and venting its wrath on you as you tuck yourself into bed for the evening.

The point is where does one draw the line at all of the doomsday scenarios that the too imaginative make lots of bucks convincing you to practice for. If you are caught unawares you are caught unawares and that's that. If you happen to see someone with deadly intent written all over his face approaching, and LET him draw that knife and begin that charge then leave the gun at home anyway because you've no reason carrying one to begin with. Professional soldiers and law enforcement are, or should be, trained on the basics of blocking and moving as they present a firearm in response to a threat. Isosceles demands you square yourself to the target in the act of drawing and thats why only police departments should use it. Stencil a bullseye on your shirts too if you like, it's all the same to me. Using footwork to provide an angled draw and aim takes balance and practice and have you ever SEEN any of these people even TRY to dance?

Course not. Hunch forward, open your body to invite attack, then brace for the impact. Doesn't matter if you've a gun or not because you've decided to make yourself the biggest target imaginable and the chances are what happens next is really going to hurt in the morning. Citizens employing concealed carry simply cannot get past the cover garment, draw, then shoot fast enough to win a Tueller Drill. This is why the brain is as important as the tool. A rogue elephant escaping from the zoo is going to trample you into the asphalt even if you get that snubby out and cranking. Try not to worry about it all that much. Chances are you'll be okay. Just don't stop thinking and you stand as good a chance as anyone.