I decided to write more about the topic of guns for protection after doing some research on-line and seeing the hundreds of posts from people asking what type of gun to get for home protection. I could say many things, but held back since it probably won’t mean anything or effect how they think.
Yes, guns can be used for protection and Yes, they are very effective, but No, they are not the best way and most people have no clue what the end result means. I think most people are very ignorant to the use of guns for protection.
To start out with, its scary that people buy a gun, but never take a class on how to use it. I’m not going to go into detail to much about this, because hopefully its obvious that it would be a disaster waiting to happen.
Then there are people who buy a gun and not even buy ammunition expecting to use it to scare people.
Then there are the people who feel they have a right to shoot anyone who threatens them. I think these people scare me the most. I am not a gambling man, but i would be willing to put money that for the average person who buys a gun only for protection if he/she was faced with a situation and someone did attack them they would freeze up to where they would forget how to even use the gun, know where they hide it, and probably would get it taken away from them and have it used against them.
Unless you are trained on a regular basis on how to use a gun for protection more likely than not if the situation occurred you would forget how to use it.
here is a good way to take it…if you have to think about how to use your gun, then you are not trained properly and will forget how to use it in a stressful situation.
I carry a gun for my profession and when we train we assume that the average offender has a reaction time of 2.1 seconds. This means if someone comes up to us, threatens us and possibly has a gun or deadly weapon we have under 2.1 seconds to pull our firearms, aim, isolate the target (which means the area is clear of any innocence) make a decision if that person poses an imminent threat (is it really a gun or is he just talking) and then to fire. Once that bullet is gone…there is no going back.
all of your decisions need to be reactions, not thoughts. You do not have time to think.
Can you do that?
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