The stark recent example of this was the Rwanda genocide, and there was little or no escape from the crowds wielding machetes.<p>Review videos about the Tueller Drill (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tueller_Drill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tueller_Drill</a>) and you may become less confident about your ability to try to escape an edged weapon.<p>All this mostly depends on how timely your reaction is to whatever&#x27;s happening.  Once you&#x27;re a fair distance away, say the 21 foot metric of the Tueller Drill, against a bad marksman you probably have a pretty good chance; the average distance of gun fights as of some years ago was <i>7</i> feet.