mozg wrote:Tero wrote:You've obviously done some thinking and training.
As has everyone else I know who lawfully carries a firearm.
The average gun carrier goes by gut feel and serotonin levels in their brain. We have these mechanisms so that we can make fast fight or flee decisions. Complex evaluation of cosequences is not done on the spot with gun in hand.
That's why all the thinking and training beforehand. If you do find yourself in that situation where you have only seconds to make that choice and fire or not fire, everything you trained and practiced for should be so well oiled in your muscles that you default to your training.
This is why I don't get people who fault us or think that training makes us crazy. I've spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars not being an irresponsible fool looking for a confrontation, and there are always people who think that I'm a horrid person because of that training.
Either way, someone's going to think I'm a terrible person. I chose the way I can live with, and so did everyone else I know who carries legally. Including all those pickup truck driving redneck yokels that people here are so quick to stereotype.
Couldn't agree more, Mozg. The primary axiom of response to a crisis is "In a crisis, you will revert to your training." The corollary is "If you have not trained to respond to a crisis, you will do nothing."
You and I have trained long and hard to respond appropriately to a critical situation, which makes us far more likely to
never ever experience such a situation simply because our training raises our level of situational awareness which helps to keep us OUT of shoot/don't shoot scenarios.
Nobody I know who lawfully carries a gun has any wish at all to shoot someone, in part because it costs, on average, about $50,000 per shooting out of pocket
even if the shooting is completely justifiable. Armed citizens are in fact eleven times
less likely to actually use deadly force in situations where they would be justified in doing so than
police officers.
But at the narrow passage, when put to the test, I think it's much wiser to be prepared and armed simply because it gives you options that an unarmed person does not have. You don't have to draw your gun, but if you need to, you can. Tero can't. All he can do is be a victim.
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"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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