OutdoorDad
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Shouldn't that be "Larger Shooters"?
i think he has a "human shield" tactic that involves grabbing others by the collar.
Smaller shooters are quicker to replace one they are full of your opponents bullets.
Shouldn't that be "Larger Shooters"?
I think somebody pointing a gun at people would be considered being threatened. I guess I never learned the skill to cower down.Unless personally threatened with bodily harm, me or others, ride it out.. I'm a chemist not a hero...but I do have a certain set of skills. Skills I've acquired over a lifetime..etc..
Shouldn't that be "Larger Shooters"?
Nope smaller shooters. You have to stack behind them. Smallest shooter up front, then next largest, then next largest, etc. That way everyone (except the smallest) gets some cover but you can maximize round count from your position, and also focus maximum terminal energy in the densest shooting configuration of tacticalness.
If this doesn't work, shoot the tires.
I dine at Binkley's fairly frequently.
When this sort of situation occurs I subscribe to Col. Jeff Cooper's (with whom I served for a number of years on the NRA Board) philosophy: The only proper response to being attacked is instantaneous, explosive counter-attack.
The accounts that I've read of the incident make it seem to me that the suspects could have been taken out fairly easily.
1) Chances of clear shots without risking innocents who are beyond the target? I'm guessing not, but wasn't there. And it depends on where one is sitting relative to the action.
2) Willing to fight the legal battles (about which the poster is well familiar) unless your own life (or a loved one's) is threatened? Not judging - but it's a question that needs to be considered.
3) Make those decisions in a few seconds.
My Monday-morning quarterbacking is to take cover, draw, and wait and see if they take money and leave, or...
This is all much easier said then done.
Then there are the ones anxious to sue you, criticize you, get advertisers on their news story, blame you for having a gun, etc.
If someone enters an establishment with gun in hand and announces a robbery, you and everyone else there is in mortal danger. Killing the suspect(s) without warning involves no legal jeopardy.
But would that consideration keep your weapon holstered when family members are being ordered to get on the ground by armed thugs?
I personally could not wait to see how bad things were going to get, maybe they'd just start asking for your money or maybe they'd starting asking who was a Christian and drilling them in the head as they stood up.