Posted on 03/27/2015 4:58:59 AM PDT by thackney
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Good post. Thanks.
Also going room to room can get you in trouble. An intruder can hide and grab you and render your firearm useless.
I'm very conscious of the fact that I have only 9 rounds in my 1911 (and another 8 on my belt). A friend quotes his Texas Ranger dad about getting in a bad situation, "Just put lead in the air, Jim - just put lead in the air".
That may be fine for a couple of shots to see if it disperses a group, but I hope if the time ever comes I'll have the discipline to make deliberate, aimed shots count and let the 230 grains do its thing.
Concealed Firearms Do Not Make Us “Safe”
Liberals live in a world where even truth itself is subject to desire, whim and the need to always carry the agenda forward.
The truth is that Concealed Firearms Make Us SAFER. They are the last-resort option that sometimes by circumstances is the only option. Yes, sometimes circumstances don’t allow that option to be taken.
In another context, on an other subject in a different venue, liberals would be the first to scold anyone who should know known about a risk and didn’t take advantage of a legal option. Take the case of health insurance. At one point, the entire justification by liberals to pass ObamaCare was that some people don’t have insurance, and that they choose to not buy insurance. So, when they get gravely ill, they go to the ER and expect others to pay. Shame on them, we must pass this law so they will have a means of being taken care of.
By this logic, everyone who is able, must carry their own primary means of self defense. Shame on them for having to call upon the government to rescue them when they should be able to rescue themselves.
For some strange reason, this logic doesn’t not carry any weight with liberals.
So, when large number of people are so blatantly inconsistent, what is going on? Obviously the examples they choose to use and those they avoid exist not for the sake of the narrow example, but that the example supports a commonly held agenda. The only consistent feature is the agenda. Liberals live to satisfy the agenda, whatever that might be at the moment.
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I told Mrs. Verga: Go into the bathroom, Lock the door and get into the tub. Won't give much protection, but it is better than nothing.
The NRA guy just wanted us to know that playing Janey Bad@$$ is not really our best option. Women can not over power a man if he gets his hands on her. We can kick and bite and scratch. I love the shows Rizzoli and Isles and Criminal Minds but there is no way those tiny little girls can take a punch like they do and keep fighting.
Before anyone heckles. I am a woman and I know.
My favorite page, what I refer to as the "good ending" pages, is filled with truncated stories of everyday people around the country who faced down killers and criminals with their guns. I read it with a smile on my face.
I am here to tell you that an agressive attack will most probably un nerve your opponent. In the realm of simulator, the attack won’t necessarily work but in real life, it has worked many times more than it has failed.
I will likely survive most of the attacks I am engaged in.
I will certainly survive all of the attacks I avoid.
I second this. I think this is what the author was trying to say, that is, a firearm doesn't guarantee safety, it only provides another means of defense. However, the better choice is to avoid the attack.
Seems like a pretty good idea....
If you want to put 230 grains down range, go with the Springfield Armory XD 45. 14 rounds before you reload and 26 more rounds if you carry two spare mags. I never liked the "cocked and locked" concept of the 1911. I want to make the thing go bang when I pull the trigger, without worrying about a safety in the heat of a bad situation.
It's all in the training.
I've competed with one 1911 or another for 20 years, and the safety flick on draw and line-up is muscle memory. Done it a jillion times, live and dry.
Competition stress is the next best thing to the "real thing" and I have no doubt that when my mind says "draw" I'll be able to put a round on target without thinking about the safety. It'll just happen.
Glocks, on the other hand, scare the hell out of me.
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Different strokes.
I second that. A friend of mine was field testing one. Wasn't sure of the sight so he decided to "walk" a couple of rounds in. First round hit about 10 feet out. Scared the Bejesus out of both of us.
The next month one of the big time magazine writers described a similar event when he was testing one.
“This is for ladies especially, if someone breaks in to your home. Grab your gun and your phone and get into a room where you can lock the door.”
That is great when you KNOW there is someone in the house, and if you don’t have kids. But if you have others you need to go to and protect, or of you are pretty certain the noise you heard was nothing, but you want to be sure... in these cases it makes sense to have practices clearing corners in your home. Several times I cleared my house after a funny noise in the night and it was never anything. I am not going to call the cops for a noise I am 90% sure was nothing... but that 10% will keep me from just going back to sleep.
“First round hit about 10 feet out.”
Keeping your booger hook off the bang switch until your sights are on target is the rule for ANY gun. Not just Glocks. I once with a gun that had a safety. After that I was more careful. Even Glocks don’t go off if you keep your finger off the trigger.
The problem is that a significant minority who conceal carry will ignore this advice and bring discredit to the vast majority who follow it.
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