(June 22, 2016 at 5:32 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 22, 2016 at 5:22 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Bare in mind that I've never claimed that my personal capabilities with guns or situations like this are highly efficient.
Which is all that matters. There's a book I read. Called "On killing", written by an US army shrink. It was recommended to me when I asked for some material on how people deal with taking another's life. He really did his reasearch and, among other incidents, came up with soldiers from the civil war. They were killed in action but when they examined their guns, they noticed they had loaded over and over without firing a single shot. The barrels were virtually full to the brim with bullets. This was the time of front loaders, of course, but they underwent combat training nonetheless. Even they panicked, but resorted to their training without really making use of it. They just kept loading without firing.
As I said, I can relate. Not in being targetted, but in your body and mind developing a life of it's own when feeling threatened. So, going by that experience, I'm very careful in what I think about anyone's capabilities when being in a chaotic life and death situation.
Ok but all I was commenting on was statistics being used in a dishonest way, your posts at least to me look as if your replying to me in a way that I was initially making claims that I could take out terrorists if I was there and armed which has nothing to do with what I was saying.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.