I would suggest that all here get ahold of some airsoft equipment and attempt to implement your plan (whatever it is) on real human targets that think, move and fight back. Until we all at least do that, what we think we will do in certain situations is purely hypothetical.
Airsoft isn't perfect, but it's about the best we can do without actually shooting one another for real. When set up correctly, it's going to be the most eye opening experience any of us will have with regard to what does and doesn't work in a gunfight.
i will deliver a head shot to disable motor functions so rounds dont go bouncing around my house and hit my family or me. but in under a second he will also be recieving 2 rounds to his heart and lungs, just to make sure the threat is terminated. If more is needed then 2 more rounds to the chest will be delivered. but i am sure the first one will have done the job and #2 and #3 are just for insurance hes dead. but i assure you HE WILL BE DEAD WHEN HE LEAVES!! and unless you wanna go to jail for murder, dont shoot him after hes already down. thats why you better make sure your first shots count.
Center mass, repeat as necessary.
I agree, but if they only find one hole and it's in his head. You are going to get, why did you shoot him in the head first? Which legally might haunt you!
(emphasis mine)IC 35-41-3-2
Use of force to protect person or property
Sec. 2. (a) A person is justified in using reasonable force against another person to protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person:
(1) is justified in using deadly force; and
(2) does not have a duty to retreat;
if the person reasonably believes that that force is necessary to prevent serious bodily injury to the person or a third person or the commission of a forcible felony. No person in this state shall be placed in legal jeopardy of any kind whatsoever for protecting the person or a third person by reasonable means necessary.
(b) A person:
(1) is justified in using reasonable force, including deadly force, against another person; and
(2) does not have a duty to retreat;
if the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent or terminate the other person's unlawful entry of or attack on the person's dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle.
Roadie said:From IC: 'reasonable means necessary.'
I do like the confidence I'm reading here!
If one chooses to believe that "two to the chest, one to the head" is something that can be practically applied to reality, then hooray for the good guys, and I hope it goes that way for all who practice it - Seriously!
Personally, I'm not good enough to hit a bobbing brainstem running 15mph right for me. I also don't believe that in the heat of a knife attack I'll have any chance to "assess" the effect of those first two shots to the chest before I'm being sliced and diced by Captain Methhead.
I do, however, understand that when these thing happen, EVERYTHING is in motion, and I don't pretend for one second that punching cute holes in a piece of static paper prepares me for the reality of a gunfight.
Perhaps this thread should have been a poll. Oh well.
High COM for me.