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1. You only pull a gun if you are going to use it.
2. After you pull the gun you empty the clip, reload.

Drawing a gun is not for warning nor intimidation.


5 posted on 03/31/2014 4:15:16 AM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: USCG SimTech

Well, sometimes its to show the gun to a friend....


6 posted on 03/31/2014 4:23:42 AM PDT by cb
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To: USCG SimTech
2. After you pull the gun you empty the clip, reload.

Yeah, I'm nitpicky.
7 posted on 03/31/2014 4:43:03 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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I traveled for a living for 30+ years. Millions of road miles as an outside salesman. 2 times I had to produce a gun, never had to use it.

Neither was a dispute, but a clear threat. Both times it ended quickly.


9 posted on 03/31/2014 5:08:13 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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What you wrote is ridiculous. The vast majority of successful defensive uses of guns do not involve shots being fired.

One should not pull a gun unless one is PREPARED to fire it, if necessary, but it is often not necessary. Assuming that pulling the gun will end the threat is foolish, but so is assuming it won’t.

From a legal perspective one should never pull a gun unless he/she reasonably believes he may need to fire it in defense of self or others, though.


11 posted on 03/31/2014 5:14:41 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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Magazine...empty magazine. Reload.

Not clip.


14 posted on 03/31/2014 7:03:17 AM PDT by TheBlackSwan
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1. You only pull a gun if you are going to use it.
2. After you pull the gun you empty the clip, reload.

Drawing a gun is not for warning nor intimidation.


So if a guy’s coming at you with a baseball bat, saying he’s going to knock your head off, you either:

1. Draw your gun and kill him.

or

2. Don’t draw your gun and let him tee off on your head.

Wouldn’t a better choice be to draw your gun, tell him to drop the bat and get on the ground until the police get here.

Or would that be too much warning and intimidation for you?


17 posted on 03/31/2014 10:22:53 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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