OH:Gunfight Video has Valuable Lessons

Gun Watch ^ | 9 June, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Books have been written about single incidents. These are just the obvious points.

[boycott]

Damn shame the thug was only wounded.

[taxcontrol]

STUPID should hurt
stupid SHOULD hurt
stupid should HURT

[Yo-Yo]

George Zimmerman convinced me to never carry Condition 3.

[stylin19a]

breathtakingly crap cop qoute from the article:

"In the right situation, someone who is responsible and very knowledgeable with a weapon, they have the right to protect themselves,” said Roddy.


Roddy = Struthers Police Chief Tim Roddy

[Jack Hydrazine]

Maybe he’s speaking of Rosie O’Donnell’s bodyguard?

[G Larry]

Just the action of taking the safety off is more than most can remember to do in a full stress situation.

No round in the chamber is just asking for trouble.

[Vaquero]

the dialog by the shooter protecting the store after the shots...it seems some one asked what the noise was about...

he answered.” me shooting someone”

love it

[defconw]

We are talking bluer than blue in that county. I am surprised they did not arrest the store owner.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Maybe the DA knows that if he tries to prosecute the guy the jury will throw it out because of the video evidence.

[Trod Upon]

A simple way to look at this is: Action beats Reaction. It takes time to react. The clerk's action beat the robbers reaction.

To quote the sage: "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

[xone]

the shelves to his right, thus putting cover and concealment between him and the robber.

Concealment yes, cover unlikely.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I didn't see him rack the slide, and the first shot was two-handed.

What video did the author watch?

[Durus]

What article did you read?

[Durus]

Sorry, my mistake, he clearly writes that and I missed it. I’m not sure where he get’s that and even argues against the concept further in the article.

[deks]

I think he racks the slide at 0:06 and fires one-handed at 0:07

[E. Pluribus Unum]

After looking at it again, it's possible that he's racking the slide while pointing the gun at the perp with both hands in a Weaver stance. It sure looks to me like he's shooting, but then he shoots one-handed a few seconds later. I don't see why he'd switch to one-handed from two-handed.

Maybe he did rack the slide while the gun was aimed at the perp, but that is a weird way of doing it.

I'm guessing he did it that way to confuse the perp. It sure has me confused.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I say the same thing in post #15, but I’m still not positive.

[AlaskaErik]

Situations like this are why I carry a Glock 23 with one in the chamber. This guy was darn lucky that he had enough time to rack the slide and get a shot off. But it's an absolutely stupid way to carry a pistol.

[Springfield Reformer]

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