Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles

On 12/28/2024 9:41 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 12/28/2024 9:25 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 12/27/2024 8:59 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 12/27/2024 2:35 PM, AMuzi wrote:

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Sure, there are incidents like the woman last summer who shot dead the guy attacking her husband using her one day old pistol, but we'd have to call that a fortuitous fluke. Start with that same woman asleep at 2am and the outcome is less clear.  Your odds, with years of experience, practice and 'muscle memory' are much better.

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But damn, what a thing to devote your life to!
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"I'm going to practice three times a week so in case someone breaks into my house in the middle of the night, I can slap my hand right on my gun, jump up into combat stance and blow the intruder away!"
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Sheesh. 99.999% chance it's just a waste of time, plus a paranoid mindset.
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Not really, for me anyway.
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The past several years, I shoot targets weekly with a pistol I made and find it a challenging and relaxing pause in my week.

 Target practice can be fun, I agree. But I think it has little relevance to a 2 AM home invasion.
 

Only tangentially, but it does.
Ownership is itself a factor.
Familiarity, including 'muscle memory' is a factor, just as much as for, as I mentioned earlier, friction shifting or riding no hands. After doing it a lot, you no longer think while doing it.
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