>> No steak knives, and tables bolted to the floor there?
You’d have to suppress the two perps without anyone else getting injured for that to make sense.
Unleash the hounds. Wanna dance? Really? Let's dance.
/johnny
I have had several marine, ranger, and civilian martial arts buddies whom I have sparred with knife fighting. The really fun sparring is with sharpies and white t-shirts, but we also used dull edged aluminum practice “knives,” which can HURT. Let’s just say two perps who got within 3 feet of each other wouldn’t last long against any of these guys armed with a 3 inch folder. Not unless they were more skilled than the average thug or crackhead.
Once I got up to speed, more than half of our sharpie fights ended with “gotcha,” “yup, look down, gotcha too.” Knives can be wicked fast. Exception was an instructor - almost never got a good strike on him.
PS Most good knife hits will lead to nearly instant shock with rapid bleed out. More so than many gun shot wounds. There’s just something about a deep cut that freaks the body out. Even people under general anesthetic spike BP and heart rate in surgery.