I'm almost positive I'm going to say this wrong but if Kleck is the recognized expert then his terminology is what's accepted. I agree there is a huge difference between a defensive display and a gun fight but apparently DGU is the accepted term.
Accepted by whom?
To an extent I think there’s an exaggerated emphasis put on terminology when it comes to firearms and the use of firearms. If a term gets a point across then I’m all for it. But here we have a term that apparently covers just drawing a firearm to dissuade an attack as well as actually shooting another person. That’s a bit nuts to me. Why not just say what you mean directly than leave that kind of ambiguity?
At a certain point I think the terminology becomes more about showing you’re “in the know” then what is actually gained by the terminology. And I say this as someone that’s done 29 training courses over a span of years and many instructors. Absent safety practices I’ve encountered instructors with varying philosophies and term usage. These were all people that had spent multiple decades of their lives in a combination of the military as well as law enforcement. Consensus hasn’t been overly common, in my experience.
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