re: #164 uncah91

In order to defend yourself when an attack actually occurs, you will need to have have your weapon drawn, a round chambered and the safety off. You need to do this in advance of determining that you will actually fire.

Every time you do that, there is a chance your assessment is incorrect. There is a chance you will choose to discharge your weapon when you shouldn’t have. That is the danger I am speaking of.

Most individuals will never choose to discharge incorrectly. But with enough gun owners and enough events, you will have them.

What I and my wife did to get that edge, that experience that would reduce the chance we would screw the pooch and increase our chance to prevail without rounds flying at other homes- Was to actually train up enough to compete in a tactical handgun sport. Our school was ISI near Piru, Ca. The training fades if you don’t keep practicing. So we chose IDPA and shot every week for a decade. At night, In the rain. In close quarters. Hundreds of scenarios. Ran two State Championships. Along the way many years in we were both asked to train and certify new instructors and range officers for the growing sport. Not that we needed to shoot that much we actually just fell in love with the sport and some great people.