Yes, there is something to be said about not dropping your gun
Circa 1977. Clinton, (I'll let you guess the state). Scene, local grocery store. What, possible burglary in process. Who, several local cops.
There was a wet area just inside the door. In running comes one of our officers with a shotgun. He slips. The next couple seconds seemed like an eternity as with trigger finger in the trigger guard, he slips and slides, balancing on one foot, the gun arm out and pointed right at a row of soda bottles, the other leg outstreched and the other arm straight up as he tries to get his balance back. Would that shotgun go off? I am cringing at the thought, watching this ballet act in front of me.
Well, he did not drop it and it did not go off. Yes, anti-climatic, I know, but funny now these many years later.
Flash forward a few years. Small town Wisconsin cop, pulls around a gas station to sit and run radar. Gas station looks okay as he passed by. The cop is a reader of Bill Jordan, and wears his gun in a Jordan holster, unstrapped, like Jordan.
Suddenly, from behind him, a burglar darts out of the gas station. The young copper takes off in foot pursuit. He yells the classic "Stop, or I"ll shoot!" at the burglar. The burglar had a head start and got into a corn field behind the gas station and was gone forever.
Young cop could not have shot the guy anyway.
His gun was in the car where the radar cord had wrapped around the butt and pulled it out of his holster.
Young cop stopped trying to emulate Bill Jordan after that.
Yes, there is something to be said about not dropping your gun.
The Doc is out now.