I realize most of the gun guys here know this, but no one is talking about it.
Eli Dickens had a choice. He had to decide whether he would take the risk of shooting at a guy with a long gun at a distance that made a miss possible.
A miss would result in the bad guy with a superior weapon returning fire with a high possibility of death.
There are a lot of keyboard Rambos who, if they were in Eli’s shoes, “Well he had a rifle and I only had my pistol, so I hid.”
Eli is not the only man to take on a killer who was armed with a superior weapon, but he definitely is one of the very few brave enough to go up against superior fire power.
My daughter told me that she figures that people have all heard about the cowardice of the cops at Uvalde, and are mad enough about that insanity. Perhaps that was running through Eli’s mind, and he wouldn’t have been able to live with himself by not trying.