On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:42:03 -0800, "John R. Carroll"
wrote:

wrote:
On Jul 26, 8:26 pm, wrote:

Sure it depends. But let's face it, most people vastly overestimate
their ability to think clearly under stress.

But don't forget the bad guy is also under a lot of stress when he
finds someone has a weapon. He has already shown that he can not think
well when not understress.

This article cracked me up, factually anyway.
"On the evening of July 25, 2009, Forrest was shot dead during an attempted
carjacking in Atlanta, Georgia. Forrest was shot seven or eight times as he
attempted to stop carjackers from stealing his Jaguar, which had his
girlfriend's son in the backseat."
http://bawaal.com/blog/1221-vernon-forrest-dead

The guy was airing up a tire on his car, an XKE, scared of the two perps
with his gun and then chased after them.
They then turned, drew their weapons and shot him to death.

Forrest screwed up. The minute he started chasing them, he became the
aggressor. He'd have known that if he'd had any training.