A lot of gun owners fancy themselves as having nerves of steel and that they will respond to an armed attacker with cinematic control. They've shot at paper targets at the gun range so they're ready to face an armed attacker or be the heroic Good Guy if the opportunity ever arises.
A lot of gun owners fancy themselves as having nerves of steel and that they will respond to an armed attacker with cinematic control. They've shot at paper targets at the gun range so they're ready to face an armed attacker or be the heroic Good Guy if the opportunity ever arises.
This is pure conceit.
Law Enforcement officers on SWAT teams go through biweekly training sessions to maintain neural readiness and missing even one session means they will not go out on the next emergency.
In real life people's hands shake uncontrollably, they will even drop their guns, their target practice may as well have never happened.
Yes, the FBI report (I think it's about 10 years old at this point) that noted only 3% of armed men ever disarm a shooter, mass or not, is the one that notes that you need to train regularly, not just occasionally or, take some classes and that's the end of it. I talked to an Iraq/Afghanistan vet about this a few years ago and he noted how you have to train CONSTANTLY to move behind the freeze response, which too often happens when you don't have the 'muscle memory' to spring into action. You need to know *exactly how to move* or you will react, as studies of active shooter situations have demonstrated, that armed civilians more often than not get shot while fumbling to remove the gun from their holster or pants. Which is why a war vet, years or decades removed from combat, may be no more useful in an active shooter situation than a wannabe Rambo.
A lot of gun owners fancy themselves as having nerves of steel and that they will respond to an armed attacker with cinematic control. They've shot at paper targets at the gun range so they're ready to face an armed attacker or be the heroic Good Guy if the opportunity ever arises.
This is pure conceit.
Law Enforcement officers on SWAT teams go through biweekly training sessions to maintain neural readiness and missing even one session means they will not go out on the next emergency.
In real life people's hands shake uncontrollably, they will even drop their guns, their target practice may as well have never happened.
Yes, the FBI report (I think it's about 10 years old at this point) that noted only 3% of armed men ever disarm a shooter, mass or not, is the one that notes that you need to train regularly, not just occasionally or, take some classes and that's the end of it. I talked to an Iraq/Afghanistan vet about this a few years ago and he noted how you have to train CONSTANTLY to move behind the freeze response, which too often happens when you don't have the 'muscle memory' to spring into action. You need to know *exactly how to move* or you will react, as studies of active shooter situations have demonstrated, that armed civilians more often than not get shot while fumbling to remove the gun from their holster or pants. Which is why a war vet, years or decades removed from combat, may be no more useful in an active shooter situation than a wannabe Rambo.
"Freeze response," thanks, that was the phrase I was struggling to remember.