Is Time Really an Illusion?

[ToddG]

I've never been in a gunfight in which I wished I achieved fight stopping hits slower than I achieved them, or wished that more failed to hit that which needed to be hit.

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[KevinB]

I've never been in a gunfight in which I wished I achieved fight stopping hits slower than I achieved them, or wished that more failed to hit that which needed to be hit. Guess I'm not very sporting in that aspect of life.




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So not sporting...

It's a balance the whole speed and accuracy - and on that given day one can only hope to make the best judgement between that balance.


Note I say hope, because at the end of the day, there is still an element of luck involved. Train to be the best you can be, your training and previous life experiences will help you judge the best balance for the situations you find yourselves in.

Some day no matter what you do, it will be the end, and the best you can do then is have a good death.

[Dr. No]

I'm sorry, dude, I just think that's a really poor example. From the intro of the redacted report:


I don't think that relates to the theory that shooting "too fast splits" will somehow land someone in jail. There's a giant gap between launching a burst into a legitimate threat and not knowing the magical moment when your last bullet "would have been enough" versus shooting an unarmed guy in the back twice, then twice more (in the back) once he's on the ground. That wasn't a problem of fast splits.

I was not trying to address the issue of 'splits' there, but rather that the threat can and will change, even in the same engagement.

To be fair, the asshole was armed - he had just pitched the gun, he made furtive movements, etc. He gave every indication he was going to engage, all the things we teach. The review panel found that his first two shots were 'ok' but that the second were 'probably not ok'.

This is to my point, that we can't just blindly PULL TRIGGER AHHH on bad guys, sometimes even if they are a deadly force threat. There have been two instances in my career where I had to let the trigger go because my background was not clear and I had to hope I was not going to get shot - all because I couldn't shoot a bystander.

How fast can you shoot AND think AND reassess? That is my point.

[Dr. No]

So not sporting...

It's a balance the whole speed and accuracy - and on that given day one can only hope to make the best judgement between that balance.


Note I say hope, because at the end of the day, there is still an element of luck involved. Train to be the best you can be, your training and previous life experiences will help you judge the best balance for the situations you find yourselves in.

Some day no matter what you do, it will be the end, and the best you can do then is have a good death.

I'd much rather be lucky than good. Unfortunately for me if I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all..