So, while I do have to give you some props for actually making it out the door with your gun, I really do think a quality holster would have served you better than an unloaded gun.
You know, one of the curious things I've noticed about you is that you don't hesitate to venture opinions on topics and events about which you know next-to-nothing — Nothing!
You, also, are quick to characterize someone by a single event in his life. For instance you repeatedly attempt to characterize me by the time when I, rather humorously, forgot to holster my pistol before I left the house. Humor was the whole point of that story; but, as usual, you focused on your little ad hominem attack and missed, and continue to miss, the storyline, altogether!
So let me ask you: You keep bringing this event up, and up, and up. How is it that you missed, and continue to miss, the fact that I had — not one, but — two highly trained guard dogs in the vehicle with me that day? (Getting the Bulldogs into the vehicle was, probably, one of the reasons, '
Why' I forgot to holster my gun!)
Now, if you're going to insist upon characterizing me by this one event, ....... what about the OTHER UMPTEEN THOUSANDS OF DAYS when I DID NOT FORGET to holster a gun before leaving home; or the THOUSANDS OF DAYS when I carried TWO PISTOLS, a tac light, and large folding blade on my person! Shouldn't these days also be included in any
honest analysis of my tactical behavior and ability? (They should, huh!)
BEFORE you seek to place an indelible stamp on me as being either this way or that way, I think you should make more of an open and honest effort to be fair-minded — I really do!
Second and in all seriousness I categorically deny your standing to tell me about what it's like to be in a fight because you've never been there.
What? Let's get this straight: In over 15 years on internet gun forums I have never — EVEN ONCE — said that!
YOU are the person who keeps trying to tag me with that label. (Which gives me a pretty good idea of just what you are, and are not actually capable of comprehending — OK!)
The very first gun fight I ever was involved in actually happened in the kitchen of a house I was renting with 2 other guys. One of my roomies had a crazy girlfriend and she started putting rounds through the wall. One went through the living room wall right over my head. I ran out the front door went to the neighbor's and called the cops. Zero training and I'm positive I was scared to death and had no way of knowing it was coming.
May I be blunt? YOU RAN FROM A GUNFIGHT! YOU RAN FROM A GUNFIGHT! Tut, tut, tut!
I'm amazed that you would admit to something like that on the internet; I really am! '
Mr. Smoke', (Or 'Mr. Eidolon' or whatever kid's shoot 'um up video game moniker you're calling yourself by now?) I NEVER ran from any kind of fight in my entire long life.
One of the salient points to that long post I wrote above is that the right frame-of-mind — the right psychological mental attitude — a gunman MUST HAVE AND MUST BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE is the savvy and willingness to run INTO A FIGHT — not away from it!
(What can I say? '
Some Bulldogs are 'dead game'; and others make good house pets.' Oh, well!)
In fact, my whole point in the above thread is that it is THE WILLINGNESS to deal with danger that SHOULD control and maintain a savvy gunman's physiology; a natural result of which would be an end of all of this IGF '
loss of fine motor control' nonsense.
(You just don't get it; do you! You're so busy trying to take, '
cheap shots' at me that you entirely miss the point of my arguments. Arguments which I am entirely willing and would prefer to discuss.)
Everyone has this idea in their head of what your gun fight is going to look like and it's never that. How many times do you think Adam Johnson trained for the "Take a one handed, 100 yard shot while holding two horses" scenario? How do you think carrying in condition three would have worked out for him?
'
Speak for yourself, John!' Another one of the salient points I hoped to put across in the above long reply is that a gunman SHOULD be possessed of an accurate idea of BOTH '
How' and '
Why' he's going to do either one thing, or another when engaged in deadly conflict!
It's kind 'a sad! No matter what I attempt to offer in one of these discussions — Bingo! — there you are, following along with one inane criticism after another of '
What?' Me, personally, that's '
What!' While, at the same time, you simultaneously miss point, after point, after point of whatever I have to say!
Worse than this, you always seem to do your best to prevent anyone else from accurately considering whatever I have to offer; and really, Junior, that's not very fair of you — Not very fair at all. Even for an internet gun forum, you're way out-of-line.
(The flurry of insulting and confrontational PM's you used to send me before I turned the service off was contrary enough; but you don't seem to know when to stop.)
Yes this was an outlier a one in a million shot but what about the guy who is walking down the hall in his apartment and opens the door at the end of the hall and BAM there's 2 tweakers on the landing? How's that eagle eyed Situational Awareness working out for you now?
Whether you acknowledge it or not there are going to be times when you have to get your gun into action one handed. Carrying groceries, carrying your kids, walking dogs. I've gone through interviews in all those conditions and was lucky enough to fail the interview every time (so far)
There are going to be times when you turn a blind corner and there's a tweaker there or a bear (true story bro) and there was no possible way you could have known it was coming.
'
Outlier!' Wow, that's a big word for you! What'd you do, discover the thesaurus? Look, instead of sticking with your, '
I can't' or '
I won't' mentality, why don't you start thinking about WHY YOU
CAN, INSTEAD OF WHY YOU CANNOT!
You've got a gun, a blade, two arms, two hands, two legs, and two feet. Go ahead: Do something novel and really daring, and use them — Use them! If you had even half of the CQB experience you like to pretend to have, then, I wouldn't need to remind you that there are times (plenty of them) when simply carrying a pistol — in any condition — isn't going to help you to escape from trouble.
You seem to think that a fully charged pistol is the perfect answer to being attacked under any and all conditions; well ....... let me be the first to point out: You are entirely wrong about that! (Are you, by any chance, a civilian?)
I have a friend who woke up one night with her would be rapist on top of her. Granted she needed lessons in home security more than gun fighting ( both you and she could use a class in Lock Your Damn Door 101. Although I'm fairly certain she learned her lesson) but she did manage to kick dude's butt and chase him off.
Did you say that I could use a class in home security? Junior, I teach home security; and I've, also, been repeatedly told that I teach the subject well. The day when that huge filthy dirty street vagrant walked into our home he walked straight past a large sign by the front door that read: '
DO NOT ENTER!' 'ATTACK DOGS ON PREMISES!'
Yes, I was scared! I was only three days out of the hospital, on crutches at the time, and I couldn't walk. (Couldn't defend my home, either!) Nevertheless, because I was prepared for such an event that home intruder came within a small fraction of a second of losing his life to two of my largest Pit Bulldogs! I couldn't have helped him, either. Those Bulldogs KNEW our family was in danger; and, if they had made body contact, then they would have gone through that home invader like an '
angry chainsaw'!
Worse, with all the tubes and stuff they'd had down my throat in the hospital I didn't have the voice to call them off, either. As I said, our home invader almost lost his life; and it was my PRIOR ATTENTION to home security and other life-saving details that saved both my wife and I from what I suspect would have been serious harm that day.
An ambush is the worst possible scenario. If I' m prepared for that then I'm more than ready for the idiot who starts his attack run from 30 feet away.
You know what? I think you're '
all wet'; I really do. You're a '
poser'; and I would caution others to be very chary of your internet gun forum advice. (I'm not trying to be mean; I'm just, '
calling a spade, a spade' — OK!)
Final thought, I was a "dirt (which a capital S) magnet" for years. When I stopped treating the world in general as "less than" me I stopped being a "dirt magnet"
Ah, ‘
Kemo Sabe’ what you mean, ‘
was’? Furthermore, no you didn't! Neither would I describe '
the world' as being greater than you. To be perfectly frank I think you fit right in, rather nicely, with the current world situation: Angry, unreasonable, contentious, overbearing and spiteful of anyone other than your own magnificent self.
(How am I doing!)
