Ok I'm back.
Still haven't read the entire article. Lately I've been snowed under with projects and visitors...and dog sitting, and...and...and...
Anyway, after watching many many shows wherein the bad guy(s) hold a hostage in front of them, with LE mere feet away, and demand that the LE lay their weapons down...when a head shot is definitely possible, I vowed to never allow something like that to disarm me IF I could make a "one shot, no reflex" shot.
One shot.
One shot stop.
A few years ago I dedicated myself to just that, one shot kills. I even purchased a .44spl revolver in effort to FORCE myself to strive for greater accuracy with each and every pull of the trigger.
It is the declining conditions in our world that got me to move away from that very noble notion of the "one shot stop."
The bad guys of today will usually have auto loading weapons.
The bad guys of today will, ever increasingly have body armor.
Some of the bad guys are "experts" with weapons...although I think that's the exception rather than the rule...but I'm not about to gamble on that! I'll treat every life or death adversary as if they are a highly trained and motivated killer who wants nothing more than to rip my guts out and feed them to me before I die.
Hold nothing back. Don't half step. Don't give em even a small chance to gain advantage over me...and mine.
Then there's this other thing, accuracy.
Often times my first shot is a "spotter" round.
The second shot is almost always better than my first. That's me.
So, I'm only speaking to the general tone of that article when I say these things, and not the entire content since I haven't read it all yet.
I hope I don't sound too "bubba-fide" when I say these things, cuz I am all about one shot kills...but not brave enough to gamble my life, or the life of my loved ones on that...not when it's me defending, or more precisely, counter attacking.