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Gun Control Reform Activism

phantom power

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3. You can burn $100 at a shooting range astonishingly fast.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 09:48 AM

Jul 2015

And that's just basic target practice.

It doesn't even touch the other important kinds of training for how to actually handle yourself in these situations, that the police train for regularly. Taking cover, talking people down, identifying assailants versus bystanders....

Costs lots of money, and time. Very, very few non-professionals are ever going to do this. But it's easy, right! I see actors do it on TV all the time.

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Watch what happens when regular people try to use handguns in self-defense [View all] n2doc Jul 2015 OP

Another simulation I'd like to see phantom power Jul 2015 #1

"unless the carrier is properly trained and maintains their skill level," dixiegrrrrl Jul 2015 #2

You can burn $100 at a shooting range astonishingly fast. phantom power Jul 2015 #3

And "basic target practice" bears little relationship to life-and-death shooting situations. (nt) Paladin Jul 2015 #4

Just shoot the gun out of the assailant's hand central scrutinizer Jul 2015 #5