“What you forget is the second you draw.
You become a threat and that escalates a situation.
Makes the other party desperate.
No.
I think it is wiser to talk a situation down rather than ratchet it up.
If you have draw, you had best shoot.
At that point words aren’t working.”
There are many counter-examples on this thread to your theory of what is likely to happen. Every study that I have read indicates that guns tend to de-escalate the situation rather than escalate it, the vast majority of the time (at least when the one with the gun is legally in the right). The opposite can happen, but it is far less common.
I disagree FRiend.
I really think that when you uncover you put the other party in fear of their lives and they may make a desperate attack.
Either you are under imminent threat or you are the imminent threat.
Prior to that only words should be used.
Brandishing is a bad idea.
You gonna Choot? Choot! Don’t Talk!