My honorary uncle Archie was a cop in Glendale in the ‘60’s, and he taught me much of what I know about shooting. One of the things he told me was to never “brandish” a weapon. Keep it holstered (or at least held down out of sight), or put it on-target and fire. Here 30 or 40 years later, it still seems good advice to me.
I work with a retired soldier, rank, name and branch of service will remain unknown, he was recently terminated from a high school teaching job as he broke a students arm in 3 places. It seems this student decided the teacher was an easy mark and pulled a knife on him and took up what was considered a offensive posture. At the hearing where he was terminated he told the student and the parents they could be glad he did not have a gun at the time as he would not have bothered with breaking his arm, but used the gun instead. The school board was “shocked” at that statement. Makes me know where some of the local sheep are and what their reaction is when the sheepdog is turned loose.