Glenn E. Meyer
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This is a branch off another thread. I didn't want the issue to get lost in that one.
In many classes, I've had instructors teach one to challenge when faced with a opponent who is not immediately using deadly force. In matches, I've even seen folks challenge a target for practice.
The classic is that you enter your house - you see a stranger. It seems quite reasonable to draw a firearm as you don't want to be behind the reactionary curve if the person is hostile.
However, we are taught to challenge. If I walk into my living room and see a stranger - I may just tell him or her - "Don't Move" in the command type voice.
So are so many instructors wrong? I find it problematic to just open fire on someone but not be at the ready.
Much FOF training involves such ambiguous situations but some here seem to thing that if you draw - you shoot.
I see no problem with the challenge with drawn gun if you know what you are about and the circumstances of using deadly force.
In many classes, I've had instructors teach one to challenge when faced with a opponent who is not immediately using deadly force. In matches, I've even seen folks challenge a target for practice.
The classic is that you enter your house - you see a stranger. It seems quite reasonable to draw a firearm as you don't want to be behind the reactionary curve if the person is hostile.
However, we are taught to challenge. If I walk into my living room and see a stranger - I may just tell him or her - "Don't Move" in the command type voice.
So are so many instructors wrong? I find it problematic to just open fire on someone but not be at the ready.
Much FOF training involves such ambiguous situations but some here seem to thing that if you draw - you shoot.
I see no problem with the challenge with drawn gun if you know what you are about and the circumstances of using deadly force.