“Condition 1???”
You mean you are prepared to immediately draw from retention and place accurate defensive shots into an attacker???
If you say you can do that in under a second, with one or more potential adversaries and not miss, or make any other mistake...
You know something...I have a few lawyer buddies that have said that every single round that leaves your gun, is any shooting situation, regardless of the provocation, or preventative, reactionary move on your part, has a lawyer, who is not your friend on it...
Even if it is a clear case of self-defense, per the laws of that state...
Seems to me you could use a lesson in how far a person could travel, to close the distance between you and the time it takes for you to draw from a concealed, retention “condition 1” status and fire even one round, accurately enough to stop that threat...
Its called the “Teuller Drill”...
I do not care how good you think you are, or your experience level...
If you find yourself on a street with a bunch of black yutes coming at you, in whatever way shape or form, or demeanor, that you can perceive, those perceptions can be deceptive, thats why they call it a game...
Good luck with that philosophy...
To be clear, I am not trying to bust yer chops on this, but this technical slant is dangerous to you, and others around you believing you are that good...
I’m not even that good...
The best thing you did say...
“Next time, don’t be there.”
That is wisdom...
Actually, the common usage for Condition 1 is for the firearm, most commonly described for a 1911 variant SA, a round chambered, hammer cocked and safety on.
As far as your 'lawyer' comment goes, all I can say is that if you're so worried about bullets and lawyers, you probably shouldn't carry at all then.
As for reaction times, distances between perpetrators and intended victims, yes, things happen all too quickly, and you can get in a proximity situation where your weapon doesn't matter. That's why my first inclination mentioned was to cross the street when it looked like proximity would be a problem which you ignored. Further, although TM and GZ weren't technically in a knockout scenario (beatdown is more like it), GZ did have one in the chamber ready.
You can have your opinion and under your description, you are correct. However, your implied conclusion leads one to believe that they shouldn't carry at all because you just cannot defeat the perpetrator in a knock-out game scenario.
And, there is at least one reported instance (even threaded here) where that tenet has been shown invalid.