I can't remember where I saw it -- YouTube, surely -- and someone was opining that the most important, but usually least practiced, skill for CCW was a lightning fast draw from concealment. His reasoning did make some sense, in that a pistol will never come into play until threat of serious harm or death is imminent, and at that point the defender is already behind the curve of the attacker.
Draw too soon, and you're probably brandishing a weapon. Draw too late and you've already lost.
Anyways, the reasoning went that since you can't draw until you've basically seen the deadly weapon in the other guy's hand, having a lightning fast draw -- followed by accurate fire of course -- is the difference between winning and losing.
I guess you can imagine scenarios in which you have more time to draw -- you're already behind cover after the shooting has started, or you're drawing in defense of someone else and maybe have some element of surprise on your side -- but if the majority of armed defense scenarios are surprise attacks from robbers, muggers or whatever, I guess I can see why someone would say a lightning fast draw is more important than other skills.
What do y'all say?
Draw too soon, and you're probably brandishing a weapon. Draw too late and you've already lost.
Anyways, the reasoning went that since you can't draw until you've basically seen the deadly weapon in the other guy's hand, having a lightning fast draw -- followed by accurate fire of course -- is the difference between winning and losing.
I guess you can imagine scenarios in which you have more time to draw -- you're already behind cover after the shooting has started, or you're drawing in defense of someone else and maybe have some element of surprise on your side -- but if the majority of armed defense scenarios are surprise attacks from robbers, muggers or whatever, I guess I can see why someone would say a lightning fast draw is more important than other skills.
What do y'all say?