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Originally Posted by Mister X
There's plenty of stats out there on civilian self-defense incidents that show not much has actually changed all that much, but there are a lot defensive shooting instructors out there making a good living convincing people that it has and that they are woefully unprepared if they don't take a certain class or arm themselves with a specific gun with X number of rounds. Most of what is taught in these high dollar tactical courses is irrelevant to the concerns of the armed citizen. If an individual wants to take them for fun, that's one thing, but there is no actual need for them.
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That's the perfect example of playing the law of averages instead of being prepared for the worst. That's what the FBI did during the Miami shoot out too. The stats all said those revolvers were good enough and the .38spl round got the job done just fine. Of course even back then some firearms instructors said they should be better prepared with higher capacity and larger caliber firearms. Too bad they wanted to hold onto the past instead of embracing the new world they were living in. Change is hard, as is thinking outside of the box, especially when those old tales of the gun have been parroted so many times by the old guard that people refuse to let go of them. Of course there's a difference between carrying your pocket 380 in Mayberry and potentially facing a hostile crowd in Detroit. I guess "actual need" is relative and doesn't fit inside an old statistic or a dusty box.