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Wllie Sutton said:
The point of the drill was to reinforce just how hard it is to defend from inside a vehicle. In most parts of America you can't drive around with your gun drawn holding it in your lap, you can't draw your gun every time someone you think might be up to no good gets within 15 feet of you out in public and you won't always have the option of going backwards as I chose to do and depending on traffic and other bystanders you might not have any option at all besides surrendering the vehicle and hoping that is all the bad guy has in mind.
Added - In South Carolina, where this drill was given, you cannot drive around with a pistol tucked under your leg. As a CWP holder it must be concealed on your body or in an open or closed container in the passenger compartment as a none permit holder it must be in a close container with a latch such as the glove compartment or center console.
In the force on force class I described above, the pedestrian wasn't always a bad guy, that was part of the drill, we can't assume everyone within 15 feet of us is a bad guy. When some of the students arrived at the stop sign the pedestrian simply walked past them as would be the case 99.9% of the time in our daily lives. When I approached the stop sign the bad guy, approaching from my left, turned out to be a car jacker and drew his weapon from inside a jacket pocket where he already had his hand on it and was only about 7 feet away from me at a 45 degree angle. He clearly had the superior advantage. He instructed me to put the truck in park and get out as a car jacker in real life would do. So following his directions I started moving the gear selector towards Park but stopped at Reverse, ducked and lit up the tires in reverse. We were not told to drive up to the stop sign and put our vehicle in park. no one does that in real life. Considering this was a mock class it was unacceptable to drive over the bad guy. That part disappointed a few students.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.
The point of the drill was to reinforce just how hard it is to defend from inside a vehicle. In most parts of America you can't drive around with your gun drawn holding it in your lap, you can't draw your gun every time someone you think might be up to no good gets within 15 feet of you out in public and you won't always have the option of going backwards as I chose to do and depending on traffic and other bystanders you might not have any option at all besides surrendering the vehicle and hoping that is all the bad guy has in mind.
Added - In South Carolina, where this drill was given, you cannot drive around with a pistol tucked under your leg. As a CWP holder it must be concealed on your body or in an open or closed container in the passenger compartment as a none permit holder it must be in a close container with a latch such as the glove compartment or center console.
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