This is not about capacity.
It is not about "multiple attackers".
It tell sus something about handgun wounding effectiveness, about how rapidly one may need to shoot in self defense, and about how many hits may be required. I think it also tells us something about how vioent criminal actors may not act rationally.
The single attacker was armed with a knife.
I just watched a combination of two videos with audio of an officer-involved shooting. It is available to platinum members on the Law of Self Defense website.
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The first video was taken by the bodycam of a police oficer who is being approached by a man walking with knife in hand. The officer commands the man to drop the knife--several times. The man does not comply.
The officer waits until the man is close enough to frighten the viewer. He then fires seven rounds, very rapidly--as rapidly as I have been trained to do.
The assailant dopes to the ground and flails around before stopping.
We change to the bodycam of a second officer who had been approaching from the side. The first officer, who had holstered his firearm, possibly with the intention of drawing a Taser, has been grabbed from behind by the attacker, who still has a knife in his hand.
The first officer is in extreme peril, and in order to save him, the second officer is forced to shoot to save him while the assailant is holding him. He does so, firing four times rapidly. That's a total of eleven rounds fired.
The fight is over.
We can make informed decisions from this.
It is not about "multiple attackers".
It tell sus something about handgun wounding effectiveness, about how rapidly one may need to shoot in self defense, and about how many hits may be required. I think it also tells us something about how vioent criminal actors may not act rationally.
The single attacker was armed with a knife.
I just watched a combination of two videos with audio of an officer-involved shooting. It is available to platinum members on the Law of Self Defense website.
with .
The first video was taken by the bodycam of a police oficer who is being approached by a man walking with knife in hand. The officer commands the man to drop the knife--several times. The man does not comply.
The officer waits until the man is close enough to frighten the viewer. He then fires seven rounds, very rapidly--as rapidly as I have been trained to do.
The assailant dopes to the ground and flails around before stopping.
We change to the bodycam of a second officer who had been approaching from the side. The first officer, who had holstered his firearm, possibly with the intention of drawing a Taser, has been grabbed from behind by the attacker, who still has a knife in his hand.
The first officer is in extreme peril, and in order to save him, the second officer is forced to shoot to save him while the assailant is holding him. He does so, firing four times rapidly. That's a total of eleven rounds fired.
The fight is over.
We can make informed decisions from this.