(February 14, 2016 at 12:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Speaking as a big, brawny (former) thug with a (former) propensity for violence, a firearm is unlikely to stop such a person, unless the gun holder is trained. Even training doesn't always guarantee success. You know how many soldiers in a platoon actually fire their weapons during a firefight? Six. More likely three - the rest freeze up.
I've been shot at twice in my life (never hit) and the fact that my opponent had a firearm didn't make the least bit of difference. Furthermore, the odds of my sharing a house with a Green Beret twice my size who has PTSD are so slim as to be laughable.
Stoopid fucking argument.
Boru
Indeed. I read somewhere that an attacker can cover 21 feet in the time it takes to draw and unsafe a weapon.
Guns for personal defense rely as much on intimidation as on the ability to maim or kill the attacker ... if not more so.
