Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
Creature, I've posted this before, but it bears repeating:
The old truism about "better judged by 12 than carried by 6" holds little water here. Successful self-defense involves surviving the encounter AND surviving life afterward. If you prevail in a shooting only to lose tens (or more) of thousands of dollars in legal fees, months of income, your job, your marriage, your home, relationships, and/or your psychological well-being -- even if you DON'T end up serving a term in prison and becoming a felon for life -- then how "good" was that shoot?
We tend to like to boil our discussions down to the easy conclusions -- "better alive than dead" -- and stop there. That can lead to worlds of bad decisions and avoids the rigorous and challenging work it takes to understand an area of study that is not simple and clear cut.
To paraphrase on the words of one Mod's sig: Don't let your conclusion become the place where you stop thinking.
The old truism about "better judged by 12 than carried by 6" holds little water here. Successful self-defense involves surviving the encounter AND surviving life afterward. If you prevail in a shooting only to lose tens (or more) of thousands of dollars in legal fees, months of income, your job, your marriage, your home, relationships, and/or your psychological well-being -- even if you DON'T end up serving a term in prison and becoming a felon for life -- then how "good" was that shoot?
We tend to like to boil our discussions down to the easy conclusions -- "better alive than dead" -- and stop there. That can lead to worlds of bad decisions and avoids the rigorous and challenging work it takes to understand an area of study that is not simple and clear cut.
To paraphrase on the words of one Mod's sig: Don't let your conclusion become the place where you stop thinking.