You can't miss fast enough to win a gun fight.
Excellent Post!
Gadsen
Posted on 12/12/2001 12:21:34 PM PST by tarawa
TEN RULES OF A GUNFIGHT
1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice.
3. Only hits count.
4. If your shooting stance is good you 're probably not moving fast enough or using cover correctly.
5. Keep shooting until the threat no longer exists; then stay sharp until somebody with a badge tells you to freeze.
6. If you can choose what to bring to a gun fight, bring a long gun and a friend.
7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of calibre, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
8. If you are not shooting you should be reloading or running.
9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependant on "pucker factor" than the inherent accuracy of the gun.
10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty
For in the home, there's nothing better than a pump shotgun. The sound of the slide being racked is one of the greatest criminal deterrents known to man, and if the crook isn't smart enough to run at that point, then he deserves whatever follows!
In range of the projectile, but not necessarily the BG's effective range. I can get chest hits out to 50 yards with my CCW weapon (Glock 19), but I doubt that most crooks (or most cops, for that matter) can hit at that range. Then again, I don't anticipate having to do that, but it's nice to know that it's available if needed.
I like Mr. Myagi's adive from "Karate Kid II":
"Best way no get hit is no be there."
Words to live by, literally.
"Fair fight" is truly an oxymoron. I intend to do what is necessary for my survival, WHATEVER that entails.
How ya been, amigo?
You can't miss fast enough to win a gun fight.
Excellent Post!
Gadsen
It's better to have a knife than nothing at all, but I would rather carry extra ammunition than a knife.
I would not underestimate a man with a knife either. A knife in the hands of someone who can use it may close and kill you before you even have a chance to get your gun out. Ballistic armor won't stop a knife unless you have trauma plate.
Also, your minimum safe distance from a person armed with a knife is approximately 21 feet. Anyone within that distance literally doesn't have time to draw a firearm, let alone fire one at an assailant.
My rule is if I see someone with a knife, shoot them as many times as necessary to stop them from moving.
L
Regards,
L
The way things are going none of us will have to fantsize much longer.
Immediately came to mind: if he's a coward, and your friend was willing to let him escape, why was your friend fighting him in the first place? 
Massive expenditure of sighted rounds always reduces the oppositions' "state of mind"...it never fails.
Best FReegards...Mustang sends.
Very close. I don't think pistol shot would make good defense ammo myself.
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The guy he cornered was the equipment manager. This guy was about the same size but tried to avoid the fight. When it actually happened, the coward not only beat him (the defensive back had braces) but cut his mouth terribly. The fight was the talk of the campus for weeks. No one would have given the manager a snowball's chance, but like I said, just because he was a coward it didn't mean he couldn't fight.
Now that I think about it, it probably was unfair to call him a coward. He simply tried to avoid a fight.
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