We have reports of tragedies that happen occasionally with trained LEOs who carry both a Taser and a sidearm, mistaking the sidearm for the Taser and shooting someone they intended to tase. And here the OP is going to actually suggest that Joe Sixpack, who statistics indicate that as a by god American born thinks he needs no professional defensive firearms training whatsoever, is going to be able to keep proper track of a genuine 1911 and its AirSoft clone, in the dark and under pressure?
Folks, we are NOT going there. Not here. Not as long as I have all these extra buttons on my screen, anyway.
This is NOT fantasy, entertainment, what-if-as-if-reality-doesn't-matter. What if monkeys flew out of your butt, would that scare him away? Disorient him? Fix it so maybe he didn't kill you, or you didn't actually have to, like, shoot him?
Get real. Or get out of S&T.
AirSoft is OK as a training aid. That's it. In the real world it will get you shot by someone who has a real gun. There are sufficient documented cases of that happening too...
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