Solution to gun violence [View all]

[mvccd1000]

Finally!!! I've heard this from several of the gun control advocates here, but I never realized it could actually work. Now we have a case study in the effectiveness of this method: Train everybody in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighting!

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/04/26/20120426surprise-martial-arts-intruder.html#comments

David Jennings slowly emerged from a deep sleep, sensing that someone was standing by his bed.

In the dark room, the blue glow of the television illuminated a man's silhouette. The stranger was pointing a gun at Jennings' head.

"Don't move," the stranger said.

Crime victims often have just moments to react, as they decide how best to keep alive and protect loved ones. With his three children sleeping down the hall and his wife lying next to him, Jennings had a second to decide.

He moved.

Jennings, who was lying on his stomach, reached around behind his back with his left arm and grabbed the intruder's hand that was holding the gun -- the same gun Jennings kept by his bed for protection, a Bersa .380 semiautomatic. (ed. - dummy!)

Jennings used his free hand to push himself off his bed and swung his left leg off the edge. Turning toward the intruder, Jennings lunged. He slammed his shoulder into the man's midsection, and with his arms wrapped around the stranger's torso, lifted him off the ground to take him off balance. With the stranger digging his fingernails into Jennings' back, the two crashed to the floor, about six feet from the foot of the bed.

Sitting on the stranger's torso, Jennings wrapped his leg around him to constrict his breathing.

"I was smashing his head into the ground, trying to keep him disoriented," Jennings said.

He shouted for his wife to call 911.

If we could only train the good guys with these MMA skills (while preventing the bad guys from getting them), we could finally end all gun violence. I think I'm becoming a believer.