[Michele]

Originally Posted by dgg9

There's waiting and there's waiting. Yes, you can't use deadly force (for the most part -- permit me to simplify) until it is used against you. BUT you can certainly develop the situational awareness to know what is happening, to force your potential assailant to declare his intentions through action, and to manage the event to buy yourself more time and distance.



Distance doesn't really matter wrt ballistics here. The more telling factor is that you will likely NOT have the time to take a relaxed, posed stance and make gun-range shots. You should be moving, and under the tempo of events, you're not going to get perfect COM shots. Heck, in a retention battle, you may have to shoot at any target you can.



If you can't handle it now, you won't handle it then. Never assume you'll do better when the balloon goes up.

POINTS TAKEN AND APPRECIATED!
So now I have some thinking to do.