The gunfight at the Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas two weeks ago featured a church security volunteer standing up in front of the gunman / robber, sweeping his coat back for the draw, and reaching for his holstered pistol while the gunman stood there pointing a shotgun in his direction. This brave good guy didn't get to fire the first shot of that gun battle-- nor any shots. The gunman killed him as soon as he brought his weapon out for the gunman to see. Then the gunman killed another "good guy" before another armed church security person popped him in the brain and turned him off like a light switch.
Yesterday here in Gwinnett county Georgia (suburb of Atlanta) an armed robber held up an auto parts store. He had his gun pointed at a female clerk when an older male employee in the back heard some commotion up there and thought something suspicious was going on. He came up front, saw it was a robbery, and according to at least one report, drew his gun in full view of the gunman.
Well, the robber shot him and killed him; the good guy never got off a shot.
He was a 63-year-old recently-retired Gwinnett County deputy.
Lesson in TACTICS: Don't start your draw when the bad guy sees you and already has his gun out. You are too likely to lose.
Even dumbass gangster thugs that hold their gun sideways and have no idea what sights are for can sometimes point shoot pretty effectively out to maybe 7 yards. That's within the distance that almost all self-defense shootings-- or murders --occur.
Yesterday here in Gwinnett county Georgia (suburb of Atlanta) an armed robber held up an auto parts store. He had his gun pointed at a female clerk when an older male employee in the back heard some commotion up there and thought something suspicious was going on. He came up front, saw it was a robbery, and according to at least one report, drew his gun in full view of the gunman.
Well, the robber shot him and killed him; the good guy never got off a shot.
He was a 63-year-old recently-retired Gwinnett County deputy.
Lesson in TACTICS: Don't start your draw when the bad guy sees you and already has his gun out. You are too likely to lose.
Even dumbass gangster thugs that hold their gun sideways and have no idea what sights are for can sometimes point shoot pretty effectively out to maybe 7 yards. That's within the distance that almost all self-defense shootings-- or murders --occur.
