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  • BugI02

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    When it comes to training to shoot accurately at longer ranges, I have only to think of the shot that stopped the sawed off shotgun attack on the Texas church. Could we confidently make a shot like that - from an elevated position and over people's heads?
     

    cedartop

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    Tom Givens has perhaps the best data set of self-defense incidents in which private citizens have been involved using a handgun for self-defense. Last I saw (circa 2017), 64 of Tom's former students had been involved in self-defense situations (could be a few more by now).

    Here's an article with some of his observations from those incidents:

    Using actual real life events of people just like us to train for encounters? Why that is just poppycock!
     
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