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06-04-2015, 03:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2015, 03:20 PM by BelieveIn308.)
(06-04-2015, 01:28 PM)ssphoto Wrote: 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.)
Depends on what he is stealing. Do you know that if you make zero effort to defend your stuff that is stolen, in Illinois you may not be entitled to insurance coverage? However, Rob is right. Personally, if someone breaks into my house my life is in danger, and that person will likely be shot. My word against dead men...
Drive them nuts, place a squirt gun in their hands, and tell the officer he looked armed to me, until I turned on the lights... Keep a couple in the house just for just such an occasion... And remember to use surgical gloves when you put it in their hands...
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." -Col. Jeff Cooper
(06-04-2015, 01:28 PM)ssphoto Wrote: 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.)
Depends on what he is stealing. Do you know that if you make zero effort to defend your stuff that is stolen, in Illinois you may not be entitled to insurance coverage? However, Rob is right. Personally, if someone breaks into my house my life is in danger, and that person will likely be shot. My word against dead men...
Drive them nuts, place a squirt gun in their hands, and tell the officer he looked armed to me, until I turned on the lights... Keep a couple in the house just for just such an occasion... And remember to use surgical gloves when you put it in their hands...
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.)
Depends on what he is stealing. Do you know that if you make zero effort to defend your stuff that is stolen, in Illinois you may not be entitled to insurance coverage? However, Rob is right. Personally, if someone breaks into my house my life is in danger, and that person will likely be shot. My word against dead men...
Drive them nuts, place a squirt gun in their hands, and tell the officer he looked armed to me, until I turned on the lights... Keep a couple in the house just for just such an occasion... And remember to use surgical gloves when you put it in their hands...
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." -Col. Jeff Cooper