Using Technology to Cover Incompetence, by Steven E. Golden (Israel National News)
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… In law enforcement (cop school). Somewhere along the way, we were introduced to what’s called the “21-foot rule” of street survival. Put simply: if the bad guy has a knife out in view and is less than seven meters away, while the good guy still has his pistol in his holster, then no matter how fast the good guy is at drawing and firing his weapon, the bad guy can run and stab him before a shot is fired. The point of … illustrating this rule is, obviously, that superior technology can be trumped by superior tactics.