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The Annoyed Man wrote:
A good idea is to have a "throw down" wallet. Always carry your gun on your body.

I'd carry a throw down wallet, but I'd need to get more pockets then my usual cargo shorts. I already carry a gun, 2 spare mags, wallet, phone, keys, knife.... I'm out of room!!!!

drjoker wrote: If you do have to shoot in a crowded room where there's no clear shot without danger of penetrating the bg and hitting someone else behind the bg, then practice shooting for a perp's foot. A perp who loses his balance due to a missing foot has a natural fall instinct response; the hand releases the gun and extends for balance and to break the fall. This means the perp will lose control of his weapon if you shoot him in the foot. The downward trajectory of a foot shot ensures that the shot will not over-penetrate the bg and hit someone behind him.

This seems like Hollywood inspired bad advice.

About the best way I could think of to produce a richochet and potentially damage bystanders would be to shoot at a bad guys feet like I was trying to make him dance in an old western movie. Floors are hard. Handgun caliber bullets tend to bounce off hard objects like that.

There are plenty of documented cases where BGs take a round or more center mass and keep moving. What makes you think there is any kind of guarantee that if a BG gets shot in the foot he's going to drop the gun, grab his foot and fall over?

Sorry, but I think that is a TERRIBLE idea.

drjoker wrote:
P.S. I think that all these crazy "what if" situations where it's impossible to come out a "winner" are started by anti 2nd A posters. Don't play their game. Instead of saying what you'd do if you were in such and such a situation, let them know that you're able to AVOID the situation because you know where the exits are.

Having personally met the OP, I assure you that you are about as wrong as a person can be (as in, on par with Obama's economic policy) concerning her stance on the 2nd amendment.


To those saying give up the wallet, I agree, though with a caution: If they just take the wallets, run, strip out cards and cash later, that might work.

Several concerns in my mind though: If they look through your wallet in store, and find your CHL you've lost the element of surprise regarding the fact you're armed. As well, if they find a CHL with your address on it they might be tempted to try to break in for some guns sometime, or tell an acquaintance in prison about a house that probably "has guns".

I understand I'm giving them a lot of credit that they might remember an address, but anything is possible.