Maybe Shooting Everyone Isn’t The Best Idea?

By Bob Owens

I’ve been enjoying the different force-on-force training scenarios offered up by the First Person Defender series of videos that we’ve been sharing over the last week, and think that the second scenario in the “Squatter Attacks Home Inspector” video offers an excellent place for a discussion of the importance of training.

The scenario is that our defender, Lyle (green shirt), is a home inspector meeting with a couple of realtors (purple shirts) to check out a home, and a squatter at the home (red shirt) confronts them, pointing his finger and yelling and tell them to go away.

As they focus on the man in the red shirt angrily advancing and yelling at them, the door to the home opens (above).

A man in the blue shirt emerges, and lifts his shirt.

Blue Shirt draws a gun from his waistband and opens fire without saying a word.

Lyle draws his gun, presses out, and engages Blue Shirt, which is clearly justifiable as he was an obvious deadly force threat. You’ll notice that Red Shirt (screen caps above and below) is just standing there once …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms