@LadyMarissa I believe that your ideas about self protection should be shared by more people. Especially the responsibility factor that many firearms salespeople neglect to drive home when trying to sell someone a firearm. The strategy that killing someone should be the priority, is a common thing I hear in gun circles. The pure stupidity of such a stance is beyond my ability to articulate. “Overkill” is one of the biggest variables in many shootings involving law enforcement, and/or defensive scenarios. Close your eyes and shoot until you feel safe, is what most people interpret when they get such advice.
Most women, and many men do not desire to kill another human being. That’s a good thing.
I encountered many such individuals when I sold firearms. In these cases I usually tried to steer the customer towards mace, or getting a dog.
Desire to feel safe, or simply not defenseless, is understandable. Carry mace on your person at all times when out and about, and have some in your dwelling. In fact, as far as in your dwelling goes have some wasp spray. It’s usually just as unpleasant to an attacker, and has a much longer range. If you get to a courtroom, you claim you just grabbed it out of panic, and it was never intended to be used against a person.
As far as mace. You wouldn’t want to use ot indoors, but if you do do it. Just expect to suffer some of it’s effects.
When using mace in a defensive situation, aim for the attacker’s eyes, nose, and mouth. Spray in a figure 8 configuration, as the attacker will likely try to deflect the spray with their arms. When the contents of the mace container are used, run (even if the attacker seems nullified,) and scream “fire.” (Studies show that people will try not to get involved with someone in danger, but will want to assist in putting out a fire.)
Proper training in close/public use of firearms requires different aiming and firing stances, taking into account surroundings. For instance you wouldn’t shoot the same at a person on a bus, as you would in a parking lot… On the bus, you would fire from one knee, aiming up at the intended target, to hopefully avoid hitting surrounding unintended targets. Or not shoot at all…
In the parking lot, you would fire from a standing position, but you would ideally rotate your line of fire to where there are minimum unintended targets beyond your target…
And so on…..
Most “concealed cowboys,” don’t have any training, other than maybe target shooting.
I can NEVER say it enough. The first rule in using a firearm should always be BE AWARE OF YOUR TARGET, AND WHAT’S BEYOND IT…
If you point a firearm at something/someone, you are assuming a very large amount of responsibility. And accountability.
For those claiming that “criminal” is responsible for unintended casualties, you are mistaken.
A great, and common, example is when a LEO/civilian fires their firearm at a hazardous animal (like a dog) while it’s running around. If they hit three houses, resulting in property damage or injuries/deaths, the person shooting is responsible. Not the intended target.
I was in the same department with an officer who fired 9 times at a “dangerous” pitbull. He hit two house, and the dog. I wasn’t there, or involved with his punishment. But. He was disciplined. Rightly so…
It was all over the news, and the dog was just a playful dog chasing kids at play. A neighbor mistook the dog playing with the children as trying to hurt them. When the officer arrived on scene, he opened fire on the animal. He reported that he hit it while it was lunging at him. Ballistics told another story. The dog was hit in the shoulder with the exit wound in the other shoulder, at an angle that could only have been achieved if the shot was taken at the side of the dog, not the front, which would have been the case if it was lunging.
As witnesses reported, and ballistics attested, the officer had falsified his report, and acted in a way unbecoming of his position.
The person who shoots in public places, has a lot of explaining to do.
I was involved with one domestic dispute where a woman fired a pistol into the floor of her kitchen during a dispute with her husband. Her claim was that she was just trying to keep her husband from attacking her. Well. She went to jail, for unlawful use of a firearm, or discharging a firearm in a place of residence. I don’t recall the charge…
It’s best to just not have a gun. If you do, use it as an absolute last resort…..
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