In La. you can have your gun in your vehicle as long as it's in plain sight. Your vehicle is an extension of your home. I would think that the person that gets hurt with their own gun is the person that hesitates and fails to pull the trigger when it counts. If you have to pull out a gun then use it in time to save your ass.I would also think that in the heat of the moment it would be hard to take a precision headshot. I say aim center mass. Less likely to miss.
Talking about it and getting er done are two very different things my friend. This is a really bold statement, in most circumstances probably a true one, but bold none the less. You really have to have em strapped in tight to make this decison and then execute.
Yes sir I'm sure it is. When your family's life is on the line you have to do what you have got to do. My dad always said don't point a gun at anything you're not going to shoot. I hope neither my wife nor myself ever have to shoot anyone. We live in a quiet area with family living around us, still you can never tell what can happen. I tell my wife if you have to pull a gun to protect yourself you have to pull the trigger before they get close enough to take the gun away.
this is why i have trained a lot. i dont want it to go through my head "can i do this". add to that, before i was a gun owner on my own (although i was raised with em and shooting as a teenager), i was shot at. i know what it is like to have a bullet go whizzing past and hit the garage door right next to you. its a long story, but the short of it is idiot teenager trying to get psycho daddy's attention. the cops flat out told me if it happened again, shoot back. luckily they tracked the kid down before it happened again. i know that helpless defenseless feeling now. i wont have it again.
i think people keep missing what swerved and i are saying. yes, you go for center mass/the heart. and only AFTER you know you have two in that area sufficient to neutralize the target, do you go for one in the head to finish the job. that is what i was taught by cops. even im not blonde enough to take only two shots and unless i know they are perfectly placed (which in the heat of the moment, they wont be unless im damned lucky). when i say i was taught two to the heart, one to the head, it means making sure you have that. then that.
Not trying to argue. I'm not sure that the person would still be standing after the body shots. If the person is down after the body shot you can't shoot them again. I would hope that my first shot would knock them down atleast.
Another good reason not to use a .357. You can kill the perp and your neighbor with the same shot. If you are at home, why not just pick up the shotgun? Accurate and deadly at short range but unlikely to penetrate a wall and hit someone across the street.
