The Tueller Drill is a self-defense training exercise to prepare against a short-range knife or melee attack when armed only with a holstered handgun.
Sergeant Dennis Tueller of the Salt Lake City Police Department wondered how quickly an attacker with a knife, or other melee weapon, could cover 21 feet (6.4 m), so he timed volunteers as they raced to stab the target. He determined that it could be done in 1.5 seconds. These results were first published as an article in SWAT magazine in 1983 and in a police training video by the same title, “How Close Is Too Close?”[1][2]
I took a course last year, and it was acted out by the instructor and various volunteers from the attendees.
It was interesting. When he got a little old lady up there and asked if he was safe everyone said “Yeah” and then he showed a video of the same thing happening in real life, and we all had our mouths open.
Nobody thought a little old lady could cover the ground she did...
And when the guy next got the fit, ex-Marine out of the group and asked how far away he would have to be, we nearly had to request an addition be built on the room!
It was illuminating, to say the least.
>> The Tueller Drill is a self-defense training exercise...
Yes, and it is usable in a court defense IF you had knowledge of it - PRIOR TO - your use of a firearm.
“Prior to” - got that, fellow FReepers?