| Joseph Robert Wilcox was a good guy with a gun. On Sunday, it cost him his life | (727) |
The author’s premise is false. The CC holder was not well trained or otherwise ignored the training he recieved.
Do not produce a weapon until you understand the situation. When you produce the weapon, act immediately to neutralize the aggressor. If these rules had been followed, at least one of the aggressors would have been neutralized, if not both.
With that said, the perps had already slaughtered two officers of the law, it is obvious that they were ready to kill and if the CC holder did everything correctly, he still may not have survived the encounter.
Regardless of the situation, this is not a valid argument against CC. A citizen tried to do the right thing and was not successful. It is not correct to state this is a reason not to let citizens be prepared.
The “training” argument is a poor one anyway. How many times have we seen articles of cops shooting fifty or even more than a hundred bullets at one guy, hitting or killing others and causing thousands of dollars of property damage as well.
The picture of that swiss-cheesed blue pick-up truck of the Christopher Dorner manhunt suddenly comes to mind as well. “Training” indeed.
| Joseph Robert Wilcox was a good guy with a gun. On Sunday, it cost him his life | (727) |
Training!
Many years back I trained under a guy who was not just a master of his discipline but also a credentialed scholar of close quarters combat.He wrote long and boring papers on the subject.
His premise was, TSHTF at BEST you only react 50% of trained response.
Hardcore years of work; 50% is still quite a bit.
A few hours for a quickie CC class; not so much.