This is not true. There is a Mexican that give demonstrations to LEOs where he draws from a buttoned up shirt and fires before you can blink your eye. Action is faster than reaction, practice is the key.MoJo wrote:So they are victims waiting to be shot?Grog wrote:RoyGBiv wrote:In NC, drawing to fire was required for the (timed) test. Although drawing from concealment was not.
In TX, nobody in my class owned a holster except me and the instructor.
My NC class didn't have to draw, although I had a holster to keep my gun in anyway.
From my research, TX does not even require armed security training courses to draw from a holster
You are in deep trouble if you let the situation get to the point it's a quick draw contest. That's the stuff of movies and dime novels. The old saying, "A gun in the hand beats two in the holster" is very true. OK, so I just made it up but, it is true!.
Have you ever seen Jerry Mickulec shoot? Ask him and he will tell you that all you need is practice.
Does the Bad Guy make an appointment at high noon and meet you on Main Street ?
In the real world you have about 10 seconds or less to identify a deadly threat and take appropriate steps to solve the problem.