Unfortunately, too much of this thread comes off like a circle jerk for morons with guns; only, this time, the morons have really outdone themselves. Personally it scares the dickens out of me to think there are people like these out there, walking around freely among the general public, with C-1 pistols on their belts.
Because I don’t have to answer domestic disturbance calls, don’t have to restrain hostile drunks, or capture dopers, and don’t have to chase car thieves or bank robbers around all day long, what is the most dangerous thing I can do with a gun on my belt?
Well, ……… that would be for me to go to a public shooting range - That’s right, for me to go to a public shooting range! It’s while I’m at public shooting ranges that I, too often, seem to find myself wishing that, a lot earlier in life, I’d done something really smart like taking up golf, instead of guns, as an avocation.
I have to wonder what makes these C-1 carry gun clowns think they should be entitled to go about armed in the same manner as the police do? How many of these internet gun bozos are legitimate Police Academy graduates? How many have been rigorously trained in the skillful and proper use of a fully charged sidearm, as well as tested BEFORE being given civil license to move about in the midst of the general public while carrying an EDC pistol - Especially while that pistol is in the potentially volatile state of C-1 carry?
With the current proliferation of carry permits it's getting so that me and my C-3 pistol can't go to a public shooting range anymore without running into, at least, one of these: highly overconfident, grossly opinionated, largely unskilled, and phenomenally untalented, C-1 gun carriers - You know, just like the people who've, so far, been responding to this thread. Frankly, I get sick and tired of having to, so often, step aside and duck the carelessly pointed muzzles of so many C-1, 'gunfighter wannabees'.
The fact remains that the vast majority of these C-1 pistol carriers are as much a danger to themselves and - especially to - those around them as they might ever be to an occasional bad guy. You know whom I’m talking about, right! That bad guy most civilians go from cradle-to-grave without ever having to encounter. For THIS I’ve got to be constantly ducking other people’s muzzles and gun jams as well as putting up with these (ever popular) accidental discharges.
(What’s the very first thing the C-1 gun schmuck to the right of you on a firing line will do the moment his pistol jams? Come on, think real hard! He’ll lower that C-1 pistol; and, if he’s right-handed, he’ll point that horizontal muzzle to his left, AND DIRECTLY AT YOUR BODY, while he tries to figure out what’s wrong with his fully charged pistol! Now, who honestly believes that a C-1 gun bozo like this is going to behave any differently while he’s out on the street and moving around with the general public? I know I certainly don’t.)
To bring (what I am sure) will be only a brief moment of sanity to this subject, the road-rage incident described in this thread is not actually about a C-3 misadventure with a pistol. Instead, it’s about exactly what I’m pointing out - An astonishing failure in individual firearms training and skillful pistol handling technique; and, to a lesser degree, obviously ineffective (and, I suspect, even careless) methods of applied personal defense.
For now I’ll leave the obvious mistakes with personal self-defense alone, though, because knowing confrontational redirection and clever evasion are not the primary subjects of this reply. Neither does a thread like this (along with the inevitable C-1 cowboy responses that are always invoked) do anything credible for the usefulness of any gun forum on which this stuff is presented.
As far as this very well trained AND highly skilled C-3 gunman is concerned, another individual has to be one world-class internet gun bozo before he goes, ‘on the air’ to so loudly proclaim that his C-1 gun handling skills and interpersonal confrontational techniques are so much better than anybody else’s preferred method of C-3 carry. The undisputable fact is that C-3 carry has saved, and continues to save, countless civilian and military lives - The only thing that isn’t certain is exactly how many lives C-3 carry has saved; however, on a worldwide scale, the number of souls who’ve been able to avoid serious mishap because of using a C-3 semiautomatic sidearm has to be quite large.
In my opinion some of you guys really ought to cut it out. Stop dumping so vociferously on C-3 carry before some gullible, ‘twit with a gun’ decides that the only way to ever become a man is to imitate one of these C-1 gun carrying clowns and ends up shooting himself or, worse, someone else.
Just for the record: I have no problem with the police or other highly trained and equally well skilled pistoleros carrying their semiautomatic weapons in C-1. Instead, it’s C-1 gun carriers with attitudes like many of those who’ve previously responded to this thread that genuinely worry me the most.
