Your absolute lack of knowledge on the subject beyond having watched TV.
I know from other violent situations I’ve been in with a high adrenaline level and consequent decline in fine motor skills that my aim would have sucked badly in that situation,
Obviously you have no training what so ever so I believe that YOU should not even think about carrying a gun.
and I’m pretty damn sure I wouldn’t be the only one whose shots would be going wild.
Don't project your inadequacies on the rest of us who do carry, have training and plenty of practice.
I have had to pull my gun twice and though I didn't have to shoot it to resolve the situation I was prepared and ready to do so. Also my hand wasn't shaking like an old lady with palsy as you have stated yours would be.
This is a serious subject and you should really keep your uninformed opinion and cowardly advice to yourself.
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If I was lying, I could have made the lie a lot more exciting than what I said, I have fired guns (shotguns and rifles) plenty of times, at targets. What more can I say?
"Don't project your inadequacies on the rest of us who do carry, have training and plenty of practice.
I have had to pull my gun twice and though I didn't have to shoot it to resolve the situation I was prepared and ready to do so. Also my hand wasn't shaking like an old lady with palsy as you have stated yours would be. This is a serious subject and you should really keep your uninformed opinion and cowardly advice to yourself."
I'll ignore the unnecessarily rude tone of your answer. You may well have plenty of training and experience, and you may personally have experience of using it and being calm and in control, hey, for all I know, you could be the 21st century's answer to Wyatt Earp (I'll have to take your word on what you say, and unlike you, I will, as I have no evidence to disprove it) but that doesn't mean everyone will, and that is the point, most people who are not accustomed to violence will suffer a deterioration in fine motor skills when faced with a violent situation and their aim will suffer accordingly. There is a lot more to training how to do something than simply learning the mechanics of doing it. I might not have used a gun in those conditions, but I understand it from other aspects of self-defence...