LOL EPIC post!Yes. And you will chew off your own tongue in the process of pointing out the folly
Worse, showing these halfwits 4 different CCTV-caught vids of what happened when folks who 1) didn't have a round in the chamber and 2) got into a violent encounter, did NOTHING to open their minds to considerations beyond their odd concepts of day-to-day "safety."
Forget "able" to chamber a round....them simply remembering that they don't have a round chambered is a bigger hurdle.....
3 these victims on tape pulled their gun and tried to fire, and made "O" faces when their guns went click-instead-of-bang immediately prior to being burned down, which does a pretty good job of poking the "oh, I'll remember to chamber a round/advance the cylinder if that happens..." assertions right in the patootie (at least to my mind).
One cat actually remembered to rack the slide, but got burned down in the process because it took [cliche] the rest of his life [/cliche] to do it; he was still presenting the gun as he took a 2nd hit.
No joy. That's not them, no siree-bob! Every empty-chamber proponent is faster than any bad guy EVARrrrr after their 12hrs of training if that...or more aware though they have to be reminded to put their ear pro on, EVERY time...or they're never going to put themselves in that situation and besides 99.999% of the time that's not gonna happen.....the fact that the .001%, while small, is caustic enough to make up for not being bigger than it is, is completely lost to them.
It's one of the many mind-numbing things about conducting instruction: the effort it takes to push the idea that one can do everything the fastest, bestest, smoothest, most tactical-ist way possible, perfectly.....and still get killed...
Given that, deliberately choosing to put yourself on the back side of the power-curve when Murphy and the Fickle Finger of Fate that F**s Everybody might put one there unintentionally, anyway...?
Talking to these folks past a certain point, one gets reminded that sometimes The Abyss stares back at YOU...
I think the bolded portion is a good reminder/lesson even to those of us who DO train alot...and carry with a loaded chamber...
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