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06-04-2015, 01:28 PM
I'm now signed up for the final class #6 next week. I'll have to wait until later summer before I do the first three. That certificate sounds pretty neat.
On last Tuesday's class, #5, I felt I did pretty good in the scenarios, but in the first, the one with the dude against "my" car, I responded incorrectly and popped Robb in the chest. He explained the alternatives I should have taken. Wow! What an eye opener! In all fairness to myself, I think would this have been a real situation, I would not have responded the way I did in the class. I think I was expected to shoot, as some of the pre-situational conversation was sort of leading me on down that path of "you have two shots and if you miss, then you're dead" -- I forgot what this course was really about. Sort of a good thing in reality, since I was taken completely by surprise, but learned a valuable lesson the "hard way".
One last statement Robb pointed out in the wrap-up was, that whether a guys is leaning on your car, or in your house stealing, it's just STUFF! Nothing worth taking a life over. It's easy to make rash statements about protecting your stuff, but IL law probably would not agree with that. In a home defense course I took a few years ago, it was stressed that you only shoot in defense of imminent threat of life and that if the guy wants to steal your stuff, let him. (I really hate that idea.)
On last Tuesday's class, #5, I felt I did pretty good in the scenarios, but in the first, the one with the dude against "my" car, I responded incorrectly and popped Robb in the chest. He explained the alternatives I should have taken. Wow! What an eye opener! In all fairness to myself, I think would this have been a real situation, I would not have responded the way I did in the class. I think I was expected to shoot, as some of the pre-situational conversation was sort of leading me on down that path of "you have two shots and if you miss, then you're dead" -- I forgot what this course was really about. Sort of a good thing in reality, since I was taken completely by surprise, but learned a valuable lesson the "hard way".
One last statement Robb pointed out in the wrap-up was, that whether a guys is leaning on your car, or in your house stealing, it's just STUFF! Nothing worth taking a life over. It's easy to make rash statements about protecting your stuff, but IL law probably would not agree with that. In a home defense course I took a few years ago, it was stressed that you only shoot in defense of imminent threat of life and that if the guy wants to steal your stuff, let him. (I really hate that idea.)
On last Tuesday's class, #5, I felt I did pretty good in the scenarios, but in the first, the one with the dude against "my" car, I responded incorrectly and popped Robb in the chest. He explained the alternatives I should have taken. Wow! What an eye opener! In all fairness to myself, I think would this have been a real situation, I would not have responded the way I did in the class. I think I was expected to shoot, as some of the pre-situational conversation was sort of leading me on down that path of "you have two shots and if you miss, then you're dead" -- I forgot what this course was really about. Sort of a good thing in reality, since I was taken completely by surprise, but learned a valuable lesson the "hard way".
One last statement Robb pointed out in the wrap-up was, that whether a guys is leaning on your car, or in your house stealing, it's just STUFF! Nothing worth taking a life over. It's easy to make rash statements about protecting your stuff, but IL law probably would not agree with that. In a home defense course I took a few years ago, it was stressed that you only shoot in defense of imminent threat of life and that if the guy wants to steal your stuff, let him. (I really hate that idea.)