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Originally Posted by Lunatech
A man with a knife in his hand can cover 20 feet in less than a second. People who train heavily with handguns routinely have to work very hard indeed to be able to draw and fire a handgun in under a second. Do the math.
I had a chum who was a marine medic. He trained all the time, a couple of times a week, specifically trying to drop the time it took him to draw and fire his pistol. The last time I talked to him, he was down to .78 seconds, consistently hitting his target.
So, if a man is 20 feet from you and your weapon is holstered, there is a strong possibility that you are going to get cut, and even cut badly. Whether or not you make him pay in kind is moot at that point, as the idea is to stop your assailant before you and your loved ones are harmed, correct?
Now, if your weapon is in your hand and the assailant is 20 feet away, that's another story. But who walks around with a gun in their hand?
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I reckon that you are absolutely correct - its idiotic to carry a handgun in a shoulder holster. If I carried a handgun, then I would prefer to have it in the outer pocket of my jacket (a jacket with big pockets), and I would also prefer to have a round in the chamber. So if a bunch of nasty characters are nearby, then I could stick my hand in the pocket before they do anything without appear threatening. I would then be able to get the gun out in 1/3 of a second and put the safety off with my thumb. Using that procedure I most likely wouldnt come up short.