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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: 8 & 9 year old girls riding bicycles
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 08:25:46 -0600
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On 12/27/2024 8:59 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 12/27/2024 2:35 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> But damn, what a thing to devote your life to!
> 
> "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!"
> 
> Sheesh. 99.999% chance it's just a waste of time, plus a 
> paranoid mindset.
> 
> 

Not really, for me anyway.

The past several years, I shoot targets weekly with a pistol 
I made and find it a challenging and relaxing pause in my 
week. Naturally, YMMV. But familiarity with it, like 
friction shifting or riding no hands, is just better with 
more iterations.

Am I practicing for defense in a life or death situation? No.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971