Immediate Action Combatives

When Your Personal Narrative is Based on What You want, Not What is True

Many commentators in the gun community like to pontificate on "reality". They will use small, self-selected data, or anecdotes, cool lingo, or when that fails, insults that they try to wrap in "joking".

Two of the most popular things these folks will desperately try to push is 1) that entangled fights with private citizens and weapons are "rare", and 2) that a private citizen using a knife to defend themselves are a "unicorn".

Take note of the language they use. They use ill-defined terms with nebulous boundaries so they can move the goal post anytime someone points out when their attempts to make definitive statements are empirically proven wrong. Because they are not willing to use real science and the established Scientific Method to analyze the data they cherry pick, they know their only escape is to gaslight people.

The problem is that those kind of moves fall apart spectacularly when reality intrudes again and again. Here is yet another massive case in point, and every single person reading this has heard of this event that shows the naysayers foolishness : the Old Dominion ROTC attack.

Not only was it an entangled fight with private citizens defending themselves using H2H methods including GRAPPLING, it also involves one of the citizens using a folding knife to help end the attack.

It is clear and defined, and is real that cannot be ignored. And watch them try to use poorly defined language as they vainly attempt to prop up their preferred narrative. But, as always, it only takes a bit of critical thinking to see that the emperor has no clothes

ROTC students at Old Dominion University subdued and killed shooter who left 1 dead, 2 hurt The FBI says the suspect has been identified as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.