This is rich. Basically here's a summary of a coversation I recently had.
I'm not in quotes the other party is.
Not to mention the safety hazard you've just intentionally created. Where exactly are you firing this warning shot?
Could you sleep at night knowing you were armed and you sat there and watched some nutjob waste a bunch of people? I'd go insane from the guilt I could have at least tried.
I spend all day gently persuading uninterested, hyperactive people who resent me to do things they don't want to do. And it works because these are people not goblins that attack people on the street. People respond to warnings and cues, goblins do not. Don't confuse a goblin with a human being.
The only thing that a goblin deserves is your hot lead. No visual or other type of threat scares them. If they get the chance to run and take it, well good for you (not them) because you avoid a very messy situation that way.
But the conversation has a benefit: I'm questioning my paradigm. I think I was too quick to completely brush the idea off.
I pose a question CCWers: IS there ever a scenario when the very idea of the warning shot might come into play? I can't think of one.
I'm not in quotes the other party is.
What? I'm sorry but have you thought about the many problems this presents? For one thing the numbers tell us we're well within contact range already. Wasting a golden opportunity to take a shot could very well mean death. (Then I summarize how 80% of all such things take place within 7 yards, etc.)If I ever had to defend myself I'd fire a warning shot first.
Not to mention the safety hazard you've just intentionally created. Where exactly are you firing this warning shot?
If the situation requires I present a firearm, I intend to use it not pussy foot around with it. And odds are pretty good if I could see it coming, I'd have avoided it. I do it all the time. The firearm only comes into play when awareness has failed or will not work. That does not happen all the time, I'm happy to report.What if you could somehow see it coming?
And firing a warning shot will address this situation how? Look I don't like the idea of shooting into a crowd at all, but in that situation if you don't do something, it's just going to get worse. You might be the only person there that can do anything at all. I hate to use the quote but "Good, bad, you're the guy with the gun."What if there was a crazy man shooting people in a crowd? You might hit someone. You'd be better off scaring him away.
Could you sleep at night knowing you were armed and you sat there and watched some nutjob waste a bunch of people? I'd go insane from the guilt I could have at least tried.
Out think them how exactly? Look a firearm is the only form of self defense which often gives the attacker a last ditch chance to surrender or flee. No martial art can say that. But that's not its intentional use. It just happens by happy coincidence sometimes.So that's your response to everything is just kill them without even trying to out think them?
I spend all day gently persuading uninterested, hyperactive people who resent me to do things they don't want to do. And it works because these are people not goblins that attack people on the street. People respond to warnings and cues, goblins do not. Don't confuse a goblin with a human being.
The only thing that a goblin deserves is your hot lead. No visual or other type of threat scares them. If they get the chance to run and take it, well good for you (not them) because you avoid a very messy situation that way.
And I let it go at that. I was tired of it at that point and didn't care if he got the last word in or not.You sure are determined not to let anyone walk away are you?
But the conversation has a benefit: I'm questioning my paradigm. I think I was too quick to completely brush the idea off.
I pose a question CCWers: IS there ever a scenario when the very idea of the warning shot might come into play? I can't think of one.