John has a good breakdown of the incident here. This was a congregation that had put some planning in ahead of time...
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Definitely learned the lessons of Sutherland Springs. Nobody was going to be prowling the aisles of this church, shooting defenseless and cowering victims.
But on the gripping hand...
From the same social media discussion that spawned the comment about medical gear in the caption to the first photo came the following exchange:
Friend A: "Shared this on a church related group and immediately got the"elitist" tag. Of course"
Me: "It's amazing how many people out there are now confident that they, too, could make a 12-yard double-action headshot, from the holster, on a moving target, over the heads of their fellow parishioners. 'Bruh, I've seen your church security team come in and shoot at the range. Some of y'all have a hard time making a single-action headshot on a stationary B27 at seven yards with all the time in the world to shoot and not a no-shoot in sight.'"
Friend B: "There is an infinite amount of excuses for screwing around instead of learning and doing work"
Friend C: "You'd think that seeing the guy who wasn't trained and made poor choices/bad draw get killed and the guy that was trained put the killer down quickly would be a lesson. I doubt it will be, though. People can't learn if they think they already know."Your hypothetical self-defense gun usage could be the proverbial "three yards, three shots, three seconds"...or it could be forty-five feet on a moving target, or it could start by that dude you didn't see approaching you grabbing your arm or knocking you off your feet.
Get some training. Practice what you learn. Do the work.
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