Wreck-n-Crew said:
Why would someone do that? Because they were not experienced? Trained ? Qualified? My point being made was as to who is judging the qualifications of another? Furthermore why is it being often referred to if someone was not questioning the ability of some?
This was in reference to something he had quoted from me:
A CCW type who chooses to engage an active shooter can easily put others at risk.
1) He could misinterpret a situation, and engage a victim who was already engaged in lawful self-defense;
2) She could misinterpret the situation, and engage another armed Samaritan or a plainclothes cop;
3) He could engage a valid target, but miss and end up shooting innocents
The thing is, the first two scenarios have happened any number of times. Do a search sometime for "plain clothes officer shot by police" and see how this scenario is not nearly as rare as we would like for it to be.
As far as the third scenario, look at what happened in NYC last year, with ricochets hitting several bystanders.
And those are just shootings involving cops (as the good guy shooters).
Similarly, as to the third scenario, go to an IDPA match sometime, and see how many people manage to hit the no-shoot targets over the course of an event.
The overall point being, people who see the situations under discussion as cut and dried have probably never tried to perform the types of shooting they might have to do in such a scenario.
If you think you might find yourself in such an encounter, and that you would want to try to take down the shooter, then it might be a good idea to try such training drills as:
Shoot a head shot on a target that is partially obscured by multiple no-shoot targets. Increase distances, or decrease allotted times, as you get better at it;
Shoot center mass on a target while you move behind cover;
Set up a moving target; try to score A zone hits; change target direction of movement between lateral, fore and aft, etc as able;
Shoot a target from around a barrier, exposing as little of yourself as possible.
Do these two-handed, then strong hand only, then weak hand only.
Add other drills as you like.
The point is, it's a good idea to know YOUR OWN LIMITATIONS. Bear in mind that performance when under fire will probably be degraded as compared to performance on a sterile range.
Complex decisions should not be made on minimal information; the more you know beforehand, the less you have to think about when things happen.