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Old 04-07-2011, 8:49 AM
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Originally Posted by JDW67 View Post
To each and everyone in this thread:

Have any of you ever had to pull your weapon?
In the Marine Corps, yes I did, and took return fire as well....and this was a "peace time" mission. The fact is an unloaded weapon is not a weapon and leaves someone wide open to a first strike...which is why I wouldn't open carry...someone like that is a sitting duck for bad guys...I'd much rather CCW and bad guys think I'm a victim...element of suprise would be on my side...however, in that video, the perps seemed to know the target was armed and shot him immediately...and when that happens, adrenaline is up and we're ALL at 50% capacity and he had to targets with guns...bad situation no matter what, but if he had a round chambered, he could've gotten a round or two off and maybe got the perps instead of them taking his gun away...or they may have continued firing..not exactly a win-win for anyone...either way, he was going to get shot in that scenario.
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