"HeyBub" wrote in message

stuff snipped from the threadlet (threddy?) that's spun off from the
tenancy question

5. I agree there are videos of little women trying to master something
like
a .44 Magnum, often with humorous results.

I saw a great snippet on AFHV where a woman fires a big hog leg pistol and
the recoil brings the gun up to her forehead and knocks her down. There's
much sadder recoil video floating around of the kid who killed himself
firing an Uzi at a gun show in New England. Too small a kid for that much
recoil. Gun ran up and over and shot him in the head.

Repeat that over and over: "I shot to stop the attack... I shot to stop
the
attack..."

The one time I was cornered (but unarmed) I shouted out (to the neighbors
looking out their windows) "I have no avenue of retreat and have no choice
but to use deadly force" as I reached into my (empty) jacket where a
shoulder rig would be. Did the trick. The asshole with the tire iron
retreated back into his building (he was irate that I took his parking
space - they were open to all, of course, but not according to him!). It
probably helped that he knew I had once had a carry permit (which lapsed
when I changed jobs - which I don't think he knew). Afterwards, I sent the
sheriffs to arrest him for assault (didn't help him that he was smoking
crack when they came for him). Assault charges got dropped but the drug
charges stuck. I put it in the win column. (-; FWIW, he was the local VP
for Common Cause.

All my cop friends are of the same mind as you regarding warning shots,
although I have fired them twice in my lifetime with good results when
displaying a pistol wasn't convincing enough. They also insisted on killing
anyone who has tried to kill you for two reasons. One, to prevent him from
trying again and two to make sure there's only one side to the story -
yours - in any ensuing civil litigation. A dead creep is worth far less
than a crippled one for some reason.

--
Bobby G.