Bear 45/70 wrote:
deepdiver wrote:
Once again we see a common thread with CC holders - restraint. The CC holder didn't pull his gun and start shooting, he pulled it and continued to use the least force necessary to end the threat and control the situation. Another instance of a citizen with a firearm stopping a violent crime without firing a shot.
For every Joe Horn situation, there are literally over a million situations such as this per year where the firearm is not even fired. Joe Horn's situation was national news. This will not be. If the media reported these more common scenes of citizen with firearm and no shots fired in the national news daily the dumb masses would understand that situations such as Joe Horn are a tiny minority of firearm usage to stop criminals.
*I don't bring up Joe Horn to rehash opinions on the situation but rather because it is a recent situation with much play in the national news about which I have had numerous people on both sides of the issue comment to me about as a scenario that in their opinion, makes civilian gun owners look like loose cannons or vigilantes.*
Drawing your weapon and assuming that you won't have to shoot is an exellent way to end up shot or dead yourself. Many bad guys don't stop when you point a gun at them. To many people believe the TV and movie crap that just drawing their weapon gives them a magic wand that everyone is under the spell of and obeys any orders given by them. That only works for sure on TV and in the movies. Doing like they do on TV and in the movies is an outstanding way to get hurt of dead. When you draw your weapon, you damn well better expect to fire your weapon and kill your target. Anythingless is foolish and dangerous. If it works out that way, all the better but surely you don't want to bet your life on it.
I understand there are 3 types of criminals.
1. those that when they see the victim pull a gun, they will run
2. Those that will see a weapon, continue to attack, then with the slightest wound flee, or faint.
3. those who will fight no matter what, those who you have to incapacitate in order to escape.
But I hear the majority are in category one.