Deaf Smith
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What about avoiding gunplay in the first place?
We do.
It's called not doing the THREE STUPIDS.
Deaf
What about avoiding gunplay in the first place?
IMHOafter all proactive security trumps having to get into reactive security any day and IMHO if im carrying chump change and the guy got the drop on me, it might not be worth the hassle to test the reaction versus action theory and I think I might just chaulk up the loss to street tuition.
How many times have we heard it? "The first rule of gunfighting is 'Have a gun.'"
Which is arrant BS. The real first rule of gunfighting is, "Stay the hell out of gunfights any way you can."
The first question - I think I put that in the category of 'common sense'. Granted, not everyone has it, and not everyone can learn it. But common sense tells me that my first option should be to de-escalate via verbal skills. Failing that, I move on to other options, deadly force being the final resort. Sometimes there may be 3 options, sometimes there may be only the one. Its up to me to determine that.How much time do instructors spend to incorporate staying out of trouble into their programs?
second question whats it take to pull a gun? two people die in a situation John Wayne and Woody Allen - how far between the two do people go?
The real first rule of gunfighting is, "Stay the hell out of gunfights any way you can."
If you carry a gun, you should have an attorney on retainer and have his phone number memorized. (Prisoners don't get to keep their cell phones.)
And one of the reasons some people wind up in jail is sometmes that they don't recognize an option.Brit said:...One of the reasons people die, or are grievously injured in a confrontation! They are held back...
Yes, that's another good reason for good, professional training, and for good practice. It takes good training and practice to develop the facility for making the right decisions and doing the right things on demand and reflexively (without conscious thought).Brit said:...I learned not to think! Thinking takes too long!...
Yes, but there are various ways to lose. Making the wrong decisions and doing the wrong things, like failing to avoid the avoidable conflict, could wind up with you in jail for a long time; and that would be another way to lose -- especially if by making the right decisions and doing the right things you could have avoided the fight/attack and just gone home to a quiet evening with your family.Brit said:...My conclusion in fights/attacks, he who hesitates looses...
Who (instructors) here devotes any of there training time during weapon classes to actually avoiding the threat...