Originally Posted by Mannlicher
Originally Posted by tjm10025
Originally Posted by JCMCUBIC
If you don't have your gun out (and you're not an exceptionally strong individual) then I don't think you'll be able to draw it and if you started to it might get taken away from you (again, if they know or suspect you have a gun).

Agreed.

A man with a 1911 in a Milt Sparks holster on his hip is going to be toast if he's late recognizing the threat in the two teenage kids walking toward him.


shooting them in a pro active manner has come to be frowned on these days.


Not sure if it has ever not been frowned upon. Nice in theory, but civilians shooting people because they may do something is problematic in numerous ways. Best to leave that privilege to professionals and there is a precedent on that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_Ferguson


"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn