re: For those with CCW Permits/License, watch this video regarding mass shootings....

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I can head shoot at 500 yards consistently.

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at a target, off of a bench. I doubt you'd be consistent when it counts. Anybody who hunts knows that shooting at a range and shooting at an animal are completely different ball games, especially when your adrenaline is pumping.

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I stay close to a S&W .357 6” barrel revolver. It covers distance pretty well.

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dat big iron

There's a huge difference between actively seeking out the gunman with your CC and holding your ground. I'm not running at the guy from the other end of the store hoping to take him on with my 7 shots of 9mm.

But, if you hide out somewhere to protect yourself and give you a HUGE advantage if they walk by? I'll absolutely take my chances. There's plenty of places to hide in a Walmart where if you are ready and waiting on someone to walk by with an AR15 you'd still have the advantage. Customer service desk, dressing room, Cell phone counter, etc.

You basically create a very small and limited kill zone with you in the huge advantage while waiting on the authorities. While doing this, you can also help to protect others.

ETA: This isn't being John Wick, this is just using common sense and what you have available to you. If I'm at a part of the store not close to an exit, I'm likely not running across the store. I'm hiding at an advantage.

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I'm definitely not a badass, but if you hear/see a bunch of innocent people being shot and you choose to run and hide instead of intervening, ESPECIALLY when you’re armed and have good reason to believe that your intervention will be effective, that is the definition of cowardice. 

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If you're implying that you would run towards an active shooter even while unarmed, then you are most definitely a badass.

A not very bright badass but a badass nonetheless.

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But put on your big boy pants and asses the situation. 

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There is no "assessing the situation". These things are over in seconds.

You don't have time to diagram a play. Oh, and you don't get to call timeout, either.

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he's a cop. that's what he signed up for. to PROTECT and SERVE. that's what part of my taxes go towards. you want me to pay his salary and do his job? the ridicule he got was warranted. plus, it was a gun free zone so he would've been the only one nearby with a weapon to do anything about it.

i don't carry a gun to protect people that are getting lit up in sporting goods while i'm shopping for produce. i carry to protect me and mine. if there are people around me that benefit from me carrying, that's fine.

everyone has the same opportunities i do, so they can carry a weapon just as well as i can. and i wish people would.

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That’s all self-serving and cowardly. Call it whatever you want. And I understand that most people would agree with you, and I don’t blame people for thinking that way. I just think it’s a bad paradigm.
And the mention of the cops salary is bizarre to me. We are talking about life and death and you’re worried about where the paycheck is coming from.

Society in general would have agreed with me in prior generations. The change to widespread self-centeredness is causing all kinds of evils in society, including these mass shootings. In my opinion.

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There is no "assessing the situation". These things are over in seconds. 

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This is just false.

Not in Vegas.
Not in Broward County.
Not in Sutherland Springs.

Whether you run hide or fight or some type of combination....the fact is that it is the decision for you to make...and a decision you have no idea how you will make until it happens.

I would be willing to bet that most CCW carriers, at least the ones from TD/OB, are more trained and practice more than a lot of these nut cases doing the shootings.

As I said before, a pistol against a long gun is poor odds.

But to your point, in a lot of cases, if anyone fires anything back it flummoxes these chickenshits.

Especially if you can think a bit and hear a break in the firing, maybe they're trying to get another mag in.

Iffen you'd kept that Raptor, you could just run them over.

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I can head shoot at 500 yards consistently.

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horseshite

30-06 with a 200 yd zero has a minimum of 40" drop at 500 yds. A stressful situation, ANY wind and a rifle sighted for 500 yds I would give a good shooter a 2-5 chance at a head shot...maybe.

So unless you are a world class long distance shooter or a military trained sniper (or member of the ALL-Army/All-Marine Corps shooting team, like my Dad was) you are severely overestimating your prowness with a rifle sir.