ymar has it right about self-defense.
We focus too much on Weaver stance when off-hand, hip-shoot and “just empty as you can” come more into play along with gaining room to draw.
You don’t get to do that at most ranges.

It’s one reason I know what I would do if I was in former Deputy Peterson’s shoes. No question. I’m going into the building. It’s odd that we have a trailer for a movie about three unarmed Americans charging a well-armed terrorist, on the one hand, and we have to put up with idiots talking about how OF COURSE you can’t expect a police officer with a pistol to take on a teenager with an AR15.

Oh yes we can. An AR isn’t some magical mystery weapon that makes you invincible. It won’t keep you from getting shot. It won’t keep you from getting knifed. It won’t keep you from getting tackled.

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-30/news/mn-56685_1_white-house-grounds/2

…Brooks said that after emptying his first clip of ammunition, the gunman ran east along Pennsylvania Avenue while trying to reload. Two men in the crowd tackled Duran and authorities arrived to subdue him, he said…

No AR is going to keep you from getting your head caved in with a brick if the right person (or wrong person, depending on your POV) can get close enough.

This isn’t a hypothetical question for me. I know what I’m willing to do. I also couldn’t hold my head up in decent company. Or indecent company, depending on your opinion of Sailors and Marines and Gurkhas. As one of the Recon Marines I went through SERE with put it, he was a warrior and it didn’t matter if the only weapon he could put his hands on was a rock. Or no weapon at all, just bare hands. And elbows, knees, and feet.

I’ve never killed a human being. I have played Rugby. And I’ve been in more than a few fights, although now that I’m 55 I’ve managed to take it down a notch. I haven’t been in a fight since St. Paddy’s day in 2007 when some drunk drugged-out expletive came into my restaurant and TOLD ME he was going to park in my lot and I WOULD NOT have his car towed while he went to the bar across the street. I told him yes I am having that car towed. When he got back from the bar and his car was gone he charged in and demanded to know just what exactly I was thinking.

At that moment I’m thinking, this is a Sushi restaurant. We’ve got knives, tables, chairs, and only one door and if this guy knocks me out the waitresses have to get passed him to escape. So I invited the expletive outside, and told the ladies to lock the door and call the cops.

I was recovering from a broken leg, so I really couldn’t box with the guy. So I took him to ground Gracie Jiu Jitsu style (it was kind of gratifying to hear one of the ladies say, “Man, Steve’s got some moves”) and choked him out.

It was even more gratifying when the cops showed up and arrested the guy. I was giving one of the cops my version of events, and I got to the point where I took the guy down (I never would have done that if he had friends as I’m allergic to getting kicked and stomped) and choked him out. And the cop asked, “Is that when he s&&& himself?” I hadn’t noticed until that point, but sure enough there it was on the pavement. It was huge. I really don’t know how I missed it, but fortunately he didn’t get any on me.

It made me feel really good inside, just knowing he had to wait all weekend to see a judge in his soiled clothes. Unfortunately, the cop’s question about the guy crapping himself didn’t make it into the police report.

The think is, I’m not a bad@$$. I served with some bad@.$$es. I’m proud to say I got kicked out of the Kadena AFB officer’s club with two SEALs. Then we went back to the suite of rooms we wer sharing (I walk up to the front desk and I’m told there aren’t any rooms, then the SEAL walk up and all of a sudden the girl behind the counter gives the two lieutenants the 0-6 suite) to polish off a bottle of whisky and make rice, and one of the SEALs gives me a black eye. I didn’t respond because, do I look suicidal?

Maybe not maybe…

USS Missoula (APA-211) was a Haskell-class attack transport that saw service with the US Navy in World War II. She was a Victory ship design, VC2-S-AP5. She was named after Missoula County, Montana, United States, and was the second ship to bear the name USS Missoula.

It’s merely a matter of how many hours a person is in crisis mode. The hours rack up, same for flight hours and simulator hours.

What said.

I’ll see you, and raise you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rawalpindi

Your enemy isn’t ten feet tall

I’ve heard some rumors that parts of the military have been encountering giants from underground.

The idol they have on the US capitol altar temple to a goddess, is named Liberty. Aka, Ishtar, Mother of Harlots, Freedom, Victory, Diana, etc. Statue of Liberty is pretty close too.

I don’t know if you aimed this at me, but if you did, thank you.

No, I don’t mean for anyone to be impressed.

Still, it was more than it was two days ago.