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Scott in Houston wrote:T.....We as civilians don't get a lot of opportunity to practice reactionary training......

There is no question that the deck is stacked against us in terms of opportunities to practice in a "closer to real life" setting. Heck, most of the ranges won't even let you practice drawing and firing, let along moving and firing. I've thought about getting a paint ball gun and creating my own setup. I'm just not sure that it would be a lot more help.

I don't want to worry about things that I've seen on some of the training videos like clearing a room or a building because I hope that I'm not dumb enough to try that. What might be good is to set up a paint ball scenario with multiple assailants and take turns in the roles.

In the mean time, I try to keep practicing drawing during dry fire. That is about all that I can do at the moment.

The missing question is: Which real world scenario does this setup mimic? They would have had a lot more credibility if they could show the real life example that they were trying to replicate. I'm not saying that something like this cannot happen. The closest one that I can think of right now is the Ft. Hood shooting. There may be others that were similar. The VA Tech shooting was not very close at all.

This is definitely a worst case incident. The "worst case" title means that there are also "best case" events and probably some in between on a normal bell curve where the circumstances are not as heavily slanted against the defender.

I'm not trying to completely dismiss the sobering message in the videos. But I've never believed that having a gun produces an invincibility aura around me and recognize there may be a situation where it will do me no good. What this video does not do, as they are attempting to do, is to say that having a gun is NEVER an advantage. There are way too many "Armed Citizen" stories for that conclusion to have any credibility.