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Originally Posted by kraigwy
Its called the "21 foot rule" which is the biggest myth since the internet came out....
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What's really a myth is calling it a "rule." It is not any kind of a rule.
Dennis Tueller (a Salt Lake City police officer) developed the exercise to test at what distances an assailant with a contact weapon could be a credible threat. The Tueller data can be helpful to a defender who needs to establish that he was reasonable in concluding that someone making threatening gestures with a club or knife had Ability, Opportunity and put him in Jeopardy even if the "assailant" was 20 feet away.