{"id":67120,"date":"2016-12-13T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=67120"},"modified":"2016-12-13T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:15:47","slug":"should-i-shoot-34-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/should-i-shoot-34-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? &#8216;The Drop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ShouldIShoot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"should-i-shoot-34-drop\" title=\"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? 'The Drop'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? 'The Drop'\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ShouldIShoot.jpg\" alt=\"A robber enters a store and demands money from the cash register while pointing a gun at the store employee.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ShouldIShoot.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ShouldIShoot-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ShouldIShoot-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> The following is a post by Ed Combs, the Associate Editor of Concealed Carry Magazine. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the last five episodes in this series:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-29-should-i-shoot-didnt-shoot-because-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"should-i-shoot-34-drop\" title=\"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? 'The Drop'\">Ep. 29 Should I Shoot? Are You Afraid to Shoot Because of Media Backlash?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/should-i-shoot-chosen-not-be-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"should-i-shoot-34-drop\" title=\"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? 'The Drop'\">Ep. 30 Should I Shoot? Have You Chosen Not to Be a Victim?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-31-should-i-shoot-self-defense-amid-a-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"should-i-shoot-34-drop\" title=\"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? 'The Drop'\">Ep. 31 Should I Shoot? Self-Defense Amid a Riot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-32-shoot-winter-wonder-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"should-i-shoot-34-drop\" title=\"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? 'The Drop'\">Ep. 32 Should I Shoot? Threat Assessment in Cold Weather<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-33-should-i-shoot-the-late-night-prowler\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"should-i-shoot-34-drop\" title=\"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? 'The Drop'\">Ep. 33 Should I Shoot? The Late Night Prowler<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Almost all defensive training of any kind \u2014 armed or unarmed \u2014 stresses that, \u201cThere\u2019s no room for a fair fight when your life is on the line.\u201d That\u2019s very true, and I don\u2019t want you to ever forget it. Where this can get dicey is in trying to decide when, exactly, your life is no longer on the proverbial line.<\/p>\n<p>Real life is rarely as clean-cut as the movies. Come to think of it, it\u2019s rarely even as clean-cut as training scenarios, even those run in high-quality schools. Real life has a tendency to be messy and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>How messy and unpredictable? Allow me to insert you into an actual armed robbery that went down a while back.<\/p>\n<p>Picture yourself in a small, narrow convenience store waiting in line to pay for your beverage. The man at the head of the line pulls a pistol and, in no uncertain terms, initiates a robbery. He orders all five of the rest of you to back up against the wall opposite the register and away from the door. You\u2019re at the back of the line and too far away to immediately disarm him, so you and everyone else comply. As all of this happens, another young man moves out of the line and locks the only visible door of the store, which is up by the register; at this point, it\u2019s worth assuming they\u2019re working together.<\/p>\n<p>You walk backward with the group and keep your hands in the traditional \u201csurrender position\u201d taught by countless instructors: palms out, elbows bent, biceps on your sides. The man with the gun returns his attention to the cashier and you make your way back with the crowd, all of you coming to rest about 30 feet from the counter.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve calmed your breathing and you\u2019re running the math: At this range, you\u2019re confident that you can be out, up and accurately placing bullets within a second and a half. You silently take in all of the information that you can.<\/p>\n<p>The one who\u2019s at the register is holding a small pistol in his right hand and a drawstring backpack in his left. The one who locked the door is watching the guy with the gun, but he\u2019s also glancing over at you \u2014 yes, <em>you<\/em> \u2014 every few seconds. The one holding the gun is wearing skinny jeans and a dark t-shirt; the other one\u2019s hands are empty and he\u2019s wearing long khaki shorts and an untucked flannel shirt.<\/p>\n<p>For now, T-Shirt is concentrating on the cashier, who is shaking and crying as he clumsily empties the bills and change from the till into the bag. He\u2019s begging for his life, and it\u2019s making T-Shirt mad. Flannel over by the door is nervously slapping his left fist into his right palm, and he still keeps pausing whenever he scans past you. (Who knows why \u2026 maybe he thinks you look like someone who might be carrying a gun.) All told, T-Shirt seems to be all business, while Flannel looks like he wants to leave as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The money from the till is now in the backpack. As T-Shirt realizes cinching the drawstring will require both hands, he readjusts his grip on the gun and, as if in slow motion, he drops it. His eyes bulge, his left hand shoots out to grab it, and though he tries to bring it in for a fair catch, he actually knocks it away from himself. It goes skittering across the floor, coming to rest 15 feet from him and 20 feet from all of you. For what seems like 30 seconds but what is probably only a half a beat, everyone just stands there, motionless. T-Shirt starts to lunge \u2014 you can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s for the gun or the exit \u2014 and Flannel is frantically trying to unlock the door.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cShould I shoot?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n<p>T-Shirt is obviously dangerous. He was just threatening to murder all of you if you didn\u2019t do what he said, but he\u2019s dropped his gun, which might mean any number of things. It might mean that he\u2019ll realize the whole situation\u2019s now officially out of his control and, as such, he\u2019ll just try to get away with the money. It might mean that he wants to get hold of that gun and use it to cover his and Flannel\u2019s exit, only shooting if he deems it necessary, whatever that might mean. To a guy like that, \u201cnecessary\u201d might mean that he\u2019ll only shoot if any of you move, but being the kind of guy who would threaten to murder strangers for money, it might also mean that he\u2019s a violent psycho who sees dropping that gun as embarrassing enough to right his mind by popping a few of you for laughing at him.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on, everything you know about human body language has told you that Flannel wants out and that he thinks you are a potential threat to him and T-Shirt. If he\u2019s been through the system before, he knows that if someone gets shot and killed right now, he\u2019ll go down for what my home state calls \u201cFelony Murder\u201d \u2014 basically a life sentence because he knew exactly what the plan was when he walked in with T-Shirt and locked the door. Flannel doesn\u2019t appear to be armed at the moment, but that doesn\u2019t mean he isn\u2019t dangerous and it doesn\u2019t mean he doesn\u2019t have something concealed under that big billowy shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them are currently concentrating on only one thing \u2014 getting away with this armed robbery \u2014 but unfortunately, you have no idea if that includes re-acquiring that pistol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cShould I shoot?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well \u2026 how quickly can YOU be out, up and accurately placing gunfire? How much do you want to bet that Flannel can get the door unlocked before T-Shirt gets hold of that pistol? How close are they to the poor guy working the counter? Has he moved?<\/p>\n<p>Do you make the bet that T-Shirt is going for that gun and, therefore, is about to present an imminent, unavoidable deadly threat to you or others?<\/p>\n<p>Or do you look out for No. 1, ride it out and count on the poor marksmanship of this nation\u2019s criminal class?<\/p>\n<p><em>For more critical information on the use of deadly force and other firearms and self-defense topics, visit\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica\" campaign=\"USCCAShouldIShoot\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all defensive training of any kind \u2014 armed or unarmed \u2014 stresses that, \u201cThere\u2019s no room for a fair fight when your life is on the line.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":67121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,234,216],"tags":[132,662,291,844,626,642],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-columns","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-columns","12":"tag-dgu","13":"tag-home-defense","14":"tag-opinion","15":"tag-should-i-shoot"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? &#039;The Drop&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Almost all defensive training of any kind \u2014 armed or unarmed \u2014 stresses that, \u201cThere\u2019s no room for a fair fight when your life is on the line.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/should-i-shoot-34-drop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ep. 34 Should I Shoot? &#039;The Drop&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Almost all defensive training of any kind \u2014 armed or unarmed \u2014 stresses that, \u201cThere\u2019s no room for a fair fight when your life is on the line.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/should-i-shoot-34-drop\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-13T21:25:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-20T14:15:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ShouldIShoot.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"820\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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