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Originally Posted by Kevlar281
In regards to your accuracy it might be an issue of having your dominant eye on one side of your body while having your dominant hand on the other.
As far as “playing dead,” I would only suggest that if you have been seriously wounded. It would be very difficult for anyone in that situation to suppress their natural reactions to a life threatening situation to convincingly play dead. Let the flight response take over and escape the situation; it’s much more difficult to hit a moving target. Of course the NIU Gunman had a shotgun at close range so his shooting prowess wasn’t a major issue.
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Thanks Kevlar. Really, it's been put through MRI. So, I doubt I can improve my targeting anytime soon.
As far as what to do for untrained folks, what would you suggest? Just asking?
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
See, under most circumstances I agree with the bolded part. If you were to scan the internet for boards on concealed carry, a huge portion of the discussion is when to do nothing. Unfortunately for these school shootings, you're dealing with someone who is already indiscriminately taking life, and obviously doesn't even value his own. I think it is a much different situation where there is an armed robbery in process or a hostage situation. But for those who feel they're capable, I don't think many would hesitate if the situation was right in a NIU type scenario.
From my perspective, I have no idea how I'd handle myself in that situation. I strongly suspect my target acquisition would be pretty impaired, but I also (perhaps wrongly) think that from a normal distance I could make contact with the assailant. Thinking as an unarmed student, If I'm stuck in a room with a shooting gunman, I'd certainly rather someone try and take him down, nerves or not. In my situation, I also have confidence in a few people I take classes with that they'd be up for the task (I also have had the benefit of seeing these people shoot and knowing their life experience). I have little doubt that at VT or NIU, the killers wanted to take as many people as they could. Thus, aggravating the assailant wouldn't be a concern of mine, and if someone had a weapon in such a scenario, I'd rather them use it if they were willing.
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I remember a shooting at a McDonald's in San Ysidro, CA in the early 1980s. After that, "powers that be" put closed circuit TV into all stores. Don't know if it changed anything in the long-term, however, it did take a sharp shooter to take the lunatic down...
I guess, once this kind of thing happens, it will not happen ever again on that campus. There must be "FBI profilers" who can give the taletell signs of someone on the "brink". But, you never know...
The government can restrict folks who are mentally ill to obtain guns... I don't know how well that would work.