Kirk Gordon wrote:

Gunner wrote:
Rules of Gunfighting

I'm surely wasting my time here; but...

I've always liked Izaak Azimov's idea: "Violence is the last refuge
of incompetence."


These rules all point to someone who is without the benefits of civilization, a creature on its own surrounded by potential predators and competitors. There are people today that live that way: cops, soldiers in the field, various sorts of criminals, and probably some others I've missed. For _them_ rules like this probably apply. For the rest of us, we don't need these rules. If TEOTWAWKI comes, that's different. Until then, I plan to stay civilized.

I'd re-label them "Rules for a Firefight", that puts it more in context and doesn't conjure the image of the lone gunslinger of the much-romanticized American Old West.


(a nit: "Isaac Asimov")

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