>Someone without training nor situational awareness can still shoot & stop an >attacker IF s/he in fact has a gun handy.
Yes, it is possible but almost cosmically improbable. If this is how you view a gun fight youre in real trouble and a probable danger to everyone around you.
>Someone with advanced training and extreme situational awareness cant if not.
I never said go unarmed. I said dont go armed and untrained. Youll know bette than to go unarmed.
>Having a firearm may be the least of all constituent requirements (for sake of argument), but its still a _necessary_ constituent.
Agreed to a point. Sometimes being armed isnt possible but you always have your brain. If its unprepared you have nothing.
“it is possible but almost cosmically improbable.”
What planet are you on?
Happens a LOT. As others note, NRA’s Armed American column is full of such cases, and those a tiny cross-section of what actually happens.