Ok just for the sake of argument between me and my buddy....... say your a harden criminal and today is the day your going to rob some guy walking down the road. Now guy #1 has a open carried firearm in plane sight. And guy #2 also is packing heat but his is hiden from your view so hes cc. Now today obviously is not your day. Both guys packing a firearm. Who are you going to attack guy #1 or guy #2 reply with thoughts please.
If I were that hardened and my only choice was to rob either of these two, I'd dispatch guy #2 before he knew what hit him, assuming he was armed anyway, regardless of whether I was able to spot it or not. Reason: It takes between a split second and a couple of seconds longer to draw and fire from concealed than it does from open carry.
If I were really that hardened and had a choice, however, I'd become a lawyer and pray on the emotional turbidity of divorce and child custody. That's where the money is. My divorce attorney's bookcase held pictures of his mansion, pool, boat, motorhome, and second house on the lake. Obviously, not the brightest of attorneys, yet he wasn't hurting.
My heart, however, is nowhere near that hard! Having been through that grief, I have way too much compassion to ever do that. I could see myself becoming a defense attorney, but not if I had to first be a public prosecutor.
My friend who is a ccw holder says if he was to do it he would go for the guy whos oc because its a easy grab for a firearm.
You're friend is sadly mistaken, and I hope he never tries it, as he's likely to wind up dead. Grabbing a firearm out of a retention holster is NOT an "easy grab." The basic retention technique of secure, spin, and block is fairly easy to learn, and quite effective when done properly. It's a matter of leverage, not strength. It also opens the gun grabber up to two in the chest, one in the head, which would effectively put a sad but permanent end to your friend's mistaken ideas.
The other thing about which your friend is mistaken is that a robber will "take out the opposition." I am no Bob Munden, but I can draw, fire, and hit a man standing twenty feet away in less than a second, and criminals know this. They also know they cannot approach without drawing the attention of an alert OCer. Stay alert, use your hearing, move your vision at least 45 degrees left and right of facing forward so you're checking six with peripheral vision, and be observant of the behavior of others, and nine times out of ten, your potential attacker will have aborted you as a target simply because you're OCing. Of the remaining 10% who might have been sizing you up anyway, they'll abort 90% of the time because you're being alert. So, between OC and being alert, you're about 1% as likely to be attacked as the average citizen.*
*Yes, the stats are fictitious, but we really don't have very good stats on this, anyway, other than if you're OCing you're several times more likely to be harassed, and illegally so, by law enforcement. I do know that criminals don't walk around taking pot-shots at OCers, because if they miss, they're in for a world of hurt.
This video's resolution isn't the best, but consider the difference between the predator (wolf/criminal), the prey (sheep/most people), and the sheepdog (sheep dog/me). Observe who's standing triumphantly over the wolf at 3:58 into the video.
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Pax...