I've been in 2, one-sided firefights in my life and you don't have time to do sh*t! In the first case I didn't even have time to run. In the second 1 I had time to stop and duck, but if he had better aim.....who knows. My uncle was a county sheriff for 40 years. The 2 things he always talked about was being the first cop at Buddy Hollies airplane wreck and the ONE time he was in a firefight. Lasted all of 3 seconds. Yes he killed the guy. First shot. He wouldn't have had time to unload a 17 round clip. He had time to draw his .357 and fire once. The bad guy fired twice if I remember correctly. Interesting side-note. Due to Iowa laws at the time, he had to cuff the dead guy, and place him in the back seat. :twisted:

My points being, he was a county sheriff, in the days when he was the law enforcement leader, and not a political hack. Responsible for taking upon himself the responsibility to apprehend the worst criminals in his county, and not put it on some rookie. And he only had 1 firefight in his whole life.

Second point is there isn't time to do much when someone shoots at you. You're better off ducking and trying to get your gun while trying to hide. My oh so important job that got me shot at twice? A damn janitor for Albertson's while in high school. They robbed us 1 night and shot me in the arm before we realized what was going on. I was shot with the 3rd shot they fired. The second time was chasing a shoplifter that was wanted for felony warrents. It was the 80's and I had long hair, and wore normal clothes so if they suspected someone of shoplifting, they sent me to follow them. Chasing this guy acrossed Academy he stopped aimed and fired four times. We were just able to duck by the time he fired his second shot.

You'd think because of that I'd already be carrying concealed, but the chances I'm going to get shot at again, is so slim, I haven't made it a priority. I took the class and even filled out the paperwork years ago, but just never bothered to follow through. Some day I will, mostly on principle, because it's my right to carry, but too many people want to carry because they think they're a badass because they carry a gun. I don't want to be one of those guys.