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The Annoyed Man wrote:

jimandyen wrote:I agree.
It's always a good thing to be aware of one's surroundings. Being relatively new to this (CHL and the laws)
and not having any formal training I had another question of gemini or anyone else in the know.

Gemini said he had "tunnel vision" on the bad guy during the incident. Is that good?
How do special training schools or police prepare for this?

I understand you have to be focused and there are a lot of what ifs.
(Ex...An accomplice, A helpful neighbor with his gun, background, bystanders etc.)
Again not trying to judge just understand.

It's not a matter of "good" or "bad." Tunnel vision is a byproduct of the adrenaline dump, and very likely it is unavoidable for most people. I've never been in combat, but I would imagine that soldiers/marines who have seen enough combat that they don't experience the same ferocity of adrenaline surge as an inexperience civilian would have—or who are under fire for such a long period that the response wears off—stop experiencing tunnel vision under battle stress at some point. But for most of us, particularly those of us who have never been under fire in anger or who never have been fractions of seconds away from pulling the trigger on someone, that adrenaline dump is probably the norm, and tunnel vision is a normal part of that dump.

Edited to add: Certainly the more frequent and realistic your training regimen, the less likely you are to experience that dump so dramatically when the real deal happens. You'll just default to your level of training........which for old farts with not much money like me is kind of scary, because we don't have either the ducats or the physical capacity to train like that.