When you consider how steeped in fantasy the American Gun Obsession is, you can see why the "If I were there with my gun, I would have popped up and taken the bad guy down" meme gets so much traction with this crowd.
I worked for ten years with armed guards (I won't specify the industry) I knew five that were killed, and maybe ten more that were shot at, or had a bad guy draw on them. These armed guards were either moonlighting law enforcement, or military veterans who had seen action. These guards practiced on a firing range everyday, and were extremely proficient with firearms ... but in all the cases of confrontation these certified armed professionals encountered, the bad guy came out on top all but two times as I recall.
When I say I knew five who were killed, I mean these were guys I worked with on a daily basis, and joked around with. They were friends. I had no reason to believe they were unable to defend themselves or weren't experts with their firearms. But firearm expertise, in terms of gunfights, has minimal value, even though the opposite seems logical. The bad guy doesn't always come at you like a stationary target does. The element of surprise, and the willingness to kill is all an assailant needs to take down an armed professional.
Killers don't wait to be killed.
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