Quote Originally Posted by Roger View Post
As a result I would suspect that a person who meets the minimum requirements, just enough to check the box as they say, will stand a better chance of being sued.
There's no disagreement with everything you said except the quoted part above. You're going to be in danger of being sued no matter what level of training you've had. In fact, an aggressive lawyer could argue that getting more training shows you have an aggresive mindset and are deliberately going out looking for trouble. Lawyers can twist anything and you can be completely in the right and still be sued.

Still, I agree with you about training. I'm a believer in all the training you can afford coupled with plenty of practice. There's a half dozen well-thumbed books or more on my shelf by Ayoob, Suarez, and others on the preparation, mindset, and surviving a deadly force encounter. I shoot IDPA whenever I can (yes I know it's not real, but it is practice drawing and shooting under some stress). I'd love to go to some real life-based training like Suarez's. But more importantly I recognize my limitations when I carry for personal protection and operate in condition yellow avoiding rather than confronting situations that are iffy.