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piro wrote:I don't know if anyone has seen this:
http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=254200

Story about a member on the firing lane getting jumped by some guy in a ski mask. Whole thread has some nice stuff in it.

After reading his story it was the first, first hand account that I've read that literally made me sick to my stomach and made me think long and hard about what I would do in his situation. Made me reevaluate my strategies on situational awareness and make sure that the possibility of something happening is on the level of winning powerball.

There's also a bit on there of a report that was made where they had various military, leos try to draw on a already drawn person. From what I gather only one person was able to actually shoot the 'bad guy' before getting shot in return, everyone else got nailed before they could draw completely.

Again with the adrenaline and heart-pounding/shaking. Man, I'm gonna be exhausted by the end of my shift if I keep reading this stuff. Well, at least it doesn't seem to be unique to me, although the girlfriend has noticed that the same thing happens to me watching any kind of movie with action conflict in it - my heart goes into overdrive, I get shaky and hot. I've noticed the same thing when reading books with crisis conflict plots, too. I've been contemplating using this ability to invoke an adrenaline rush with simple situational thinking to practice shooting under stress. Anyone else done this?

stevie_d_64 wrote: The reasonable decision about it being an imminent threat to you and whomever is with you has already been made...And you didn't make it...

The decision you will actually have to make is draw, or die...No one will make that one for you...

I'm in agreement here. My main concern here is figuring out how I would draw in such a situation. It's a given that if someone draws on me in a mugging, and there's no way to avoid it, I'm going to be pulling an shooting. I am simply trying to figure out the best way to go about it. Another complicating factor to this is the girlfriend. Her natural instinct would probably be to get closer to me/behind me. If I'm going to be drawing, I'll want to sidestep as far from her as I practically can to avoid her being hit in a shootout.

Also, is it just me, or does anyone else get a rush of adrenaline simply thinking situations like this out? I'm not saying this in the "WHOA, AWESOME ADRENALINE RUSH, DUDE!" sense - any time I'm going through a shooting situation like this in my head, my heart goes overdrive and I get shaky... simply a rush of adrenaline into my system.

Thane wrote: In short, don't react, but have a plan of action already, "just in case." Plans are a lot easier to adapt on the spot as needed if they're already somewhat formed. If you don't have anything planned out, you're just "along for the ride" at best, and seriously hurt otherwise.

Which is why I've been thinking about this and asked the question here.

txinvestigator wrote:His distance from me will determine what action I take.

In the scenario that's going through my head, it's about 3 feet.

So I've been thinking this hypothetical situation over for about the past day and have not come to a conclusion, so thought perhaps I would ask everyone here to see what they thought.

Say that you're walking downtown with your wife/girlfriend, and a mugger gets the drop on you. He's got a handgun trained on you, and is telling you to hand over your wallet and valuables. He then asks for your leather jacket, which is acting as concealment for your shoulder-holstered pistol. What do you do?