"One scenario involved us pulling up to a stop sign in our vehicles while a pedestrian crossed the road in front of us. When the pedestrian turned out to be a car jacker no one was able to get to their firearm and return fire before they were hit."
^^ Take this from someone who worked in Central America back in the early 80's and who had people who actively wanted to kill folks like me in areas where vehicular ambushes using cars or motorcycles was the preferred method.
In the above scenario, your vehicle is your defensive weapon and your accellerator is the trigger. Anyone putting a vehicle in "park" at a stoplight is dumb enough that they ought to lose the fight to start with, just to end their gene pool from being passed on to other unfortunates. Take a class in executive protection driving sometime if you can, and learn how to use one car to shove another out of the way, how to avoid being blocked in, and how to deal with these situations other ways and you'll very quickly learn that "leaving" is the key to success, not shooting. Drive a substantial vehicle, know when to keep the windows up and when to roll them down (hint: it's damned hard with any handgun or even with a 5.56 rifle to penetrate a car door and then the glass behind it, and then an interior panel and cause harm to someone hiding behind a door with the window rolled down, never mind your ability to return fire), and 100 other tips for not being the guy shot in the head at the redlight.
And yes, you need your defensive handgun someplace where you can access it quickly. Like tucked under your leg.....
Willie
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