I've been mulling this over and felt like it was something PF may want to weigh in on. I think it's time to return to the shoot/assess cycle in training vs the shoot them to the ground that is widely viewed as best practice now. I get the why of it. The fear was that during your assessment phase the bad guy was still acting and maybe you get hurt or killed during that lull. I concede this is a possibility. However, here's what I'm seeing from both the general citizenry and police. This results in a shit ton of misses. Which then feed the narrative of the need for high capacity carry guns (note need vs desire, if you want to carry a 50 round x-tendo mag, you do you, but all to often that goes hand in hand with if you're carrying less than X you're gonna die). Mag dumps occur with magazines of all sizes, but bigger mags result in higher round count mag dumps which result in even more misses.
The shoot 2/assess cycle is now old and busted. Everybody knows you'll be shot in the face while you are looky-lou at the bad guy without pulling the trigger. But will it? If we're seeing something like 3 for 17 as a fairly common mag dump hit rate...is that faster trigger pulling helping you? During the assessment phase the gun is settling out of recoil and you're getting back into the mind set of decision making vs just keep doing what you're doing because it hasn't gotten you killed yet. So should we dust off that old and busted 'best practice' and see how it works in the day of the wunder9, a litigious society, and the very real scenario that 'lawful but awful' shootings damage the liklihood of robust self-defense laws (and policies) remaining on the books? Ridiculous? Look how many departments now say you can shoot someone in the fact in situation X but can *NEVER EVER EVER* apply any sort of "choke hold" in the same situation X?
My contention is hit rates would likely go up, stray round would absolutely go down, and outcomes would be better for the vast majority of skill levels of shooters in self defense/defense of other situations.
This is mostly just for my own benefit. I know cool guy trainers at all levels aren't going to stop the Instagram splits, but maybe, just maybe, PF may consider working more decision making in to their drills and in their mental run throughs.