Beretta92FSLady
Regular Member
Now, we all have heard that the majority of shooting occur within approximately 18ft. But what about those potentially long-shots?
I was thinking about this the past two days. What triggered it was the POS that went on a shooting spree here in Seattle. He shot seven individuals, then himself. (six of the seven are dead).
I reade an article where a woman described happening to be sitting in her car, and hearing one of the victims scream for "help." It seemed by the article, the woman was not more than fifty feet or-so away.
So I get this picture in my head: I'm stopped in traffic. I hear a woman screaming "help." I look out the passenger-side window, and see a man standing over a woman, stomping on her, then pulls out a handgun, steadies his hand, and shoots her in the face.
Now, I'm just being an armchair quarter-back here. It doesn't seem too difficult to assess a situation like that.--a man standing over a woman, stomping on her, then pulling a gun out.
Three questions:
(1) Do you practice shooting your carry gun out to a hundred feet?
(2) Would you shoot someone from a hundred feet away that was obviously beating, robbing, and reading to shoot a person in the face?
(3) what is a reasonable distance we ought to be proficient at shooting our carry guns out to?
Personally, if I had assessed the situation to be imminently a threat to the woman's safety and life, had the time to act, and was confident in my shot out to a hundred feet, I would have draw, and pulled the trigger. I would have a difficult time sitting there watching something like that play out when it was possible that I could intervene.
I was thinking about this the past two days. What triggered it was the POS that went on a shooting spree here in Seattle. He shot seven individuals, then himself. (six of the seven are dead).
I reade an article where a woman described happening to be sitting in her car, and hearing one of the victims scream for "help." It seemed by the article, the woman was not more than fifty feet or-so away.
So I get this picture in my head: I'm stopped in traffic. I hear a woman screaming "help." I look out the passenger-side window, and see a man standing over a woman, stomping on her, then pulls out a handgun, steadies his hand, and shoots her in the face.
Now, I'm just being an armchair quarter-back here. It doesn't seem too difficult to assess a situation like that.--a man standing over a woman, stomping on her, then pulling a gun out.
Three questions:
(1) Do you practice shooting your carry gun out to a hundred feet?
(2) Would you shoot someone from a hundred feet away that was obviously beating, robbing, and reading to shoot a person in the face?
(3) what is a reasonable distance we ought to be proficient at shooting our carry guns out to?
Personally, if I had assessed the situation to be imminently a threat to the woman's safety and life, had the time to act, and was confident in my shot out to a hundred feet, I would have draw, and pulled the trigger. I would have a difficult time sitting there watching something like that play out when it was possible that I could intervene.
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