In the last hour, we had the premise of an agressor holding a gun to the head of a hostage while using him as a human shield.
This part was fun.
There were several ways to go about this, but the safest, and the most universally applied (ie: it could be useful, even to law enforcement, who are under more legal restrictions about the use of force as civillians), is the following:
First, one has to close in on the agressor, so that the gun is within grabbing range. How you do this is up to you, but talking at a gunman is always a good idea. Getting them to talk is even better -- very few people with guns will start shooting while they're in the middle of a sentence. Strange, but true.
Second, grab the gun with the mirroring hand. IE: if someone is holding the gun with their right, you grab with your left, and vice versa. It's a grab and a push, really, making certain that the muzzle redirects away from the hostage, towards the hostage taker, and then out at a diagonal.
Three, step in diagonally, pushing the arm with the gun away from the gunman's body. The hostage taker's wrist with bend and twist, as will the arm, the elbow, and he WILL feel it in the shoulder. (If the hostage taker is like this author, he will feel it the next day, if nothing else.) As you are redirecting the weapon, you can strike with the free hand.
Four: twist the gun out of the attacker's hand using a method similar to the gun defense (see link below), although the gun may come out at step three. Take the gun, and gen between the hostage taker and the hostage -- thrusting a knee in between the two will serve as a strike, and the necessary wedge to separate the hostage taker from the hostage.
Five: get the hostage away, as discussed in previous articles (also below).
We at Examiner.com hope that you have enjoyed this series of articles about Gabi Noah's seminar on Third Party Protection.
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