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Originally Posted by Steve
Drawing a weapon does not compel you to pull the trigger. But, if you do decide to pull the trigger, it had damn well better be while the firearm is aimed at a target, and not off to the side or up in the air.
When I drew my weapon, our assailants didn't stop making their way towards us. At that point is when I decided to use the weapon...
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Well, they might have stopped at that point, in which case you wouldn't have had to actually shoot, wouldn't you agree? Or they might have stopped after a warning shot, who knows?
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How close should I have let them get? As it was, they were within 10 or 15 feet. What would be an acceptable distance? Should I have let them get close enough to cut me, or to hit me with the pipe that one of them had?
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How would I know? I'm not you. I can only speculate on what I would have done in that same situation, that is, I'd have started swinging when they got within knife range.
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And all that does is make a loud noise. If anything, it suggests to your assailants that you're not prepared to fire your weapon in a manner which will stop them...
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Oh, please, what were they? Brain-eating zombies? A warning shot would definitely stop ME.
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Originally Posted by Steve
My God, this is getting sillier by minute.
If I were on a range, I could shoot the dots off a dice at 100 feet. That's not the position I was in, though. I wasn't on a range, I was on a street, with four people approaching me who meant to do me harm.
If I put a bottle on a sidewalk, and then sent four people towards you with weapons, and I gave you only a second or two to go from not having a weapon in your hand to hitting the bottle with a bullet, and you knew that the four assailaints would beat and rob you if they got to you, I have little doubt that you'd miss that bottle...
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Probably. Wouldn't miss a leg, though.
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Training can't stop the physiological effects that you experience in a "real world" environment. It can do nothing to stop the adrenalin rush (which makes you shake, by the way) or the tunnel vision. It can do nothing to stop the hyperventilating
I always laugh when someone says that, because they might have centered a target once on a range, they think they could adequately defend themself with a firearm. The environments could not be more different, and the physical reactions one experiences in those two environments could not be more different.
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Well, I can defend myself fine without a firearm, as unlike you I've never had to face brain-eating zombies. Additionally, I don't get the shakes. That is, I do get them, but only when I'm not actually in danger, such as when I have to prepare for a difficult interview.
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So, again, I'd suggest that if you wish to continue this discussion, you educate yourself on the topic. Without that, you'll continue to argue from a position of ignorance...
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What do you suggest I do? Go get mugged? I don't have a gun...