I could not agree more with the premise of this article. In my twenties, I spent four or five years pumping gas or driving taxi's on the third shift. I worked those hours to fit in regular full time jobs or college classes. I held off or captured four sets of armed robbers without firing a shot or hurting anyone. It is not eanough to simply pull out a gun and yell: "drop it!" In real life instead of on TV, your problems only begin when you pull out your firearm in an unfolding crime scene. Putting legal thoughts aside, one must be able to convince crazy or truly evil criminals that they will die now if they do not surrender. You may have to convince the criminals that you are actually more evil and crazy than they are to get the job done. At the same time you have to avoid shooting the crooks or bystanders behind them by accident. You have to be able to control both your real fear and the tunnel vision that can warp your reality. After all, unless you see it coming, they are in control of the timing of the attack. They have a wide choice of weapons and tactics that they will not have to explain in court. After all, the crooks ARE and want to be badder than you want to be. You will have to answer to cops and lawyers who were not in danger of death or worse if you failed. You will be blamed for pouring gas on a fire if bystanders are hurt or killed. Once the game is afoot, your future could be decided in secounds. You must be quick or dead. Your life and the lives of others could be decided in less time than it takes to stuff a second clip in. I said I did not shoot a shot in defense. There was one exception. I was not the target of the attack. I did shoot one bullet into the air in a alley some 40 years ago. Three guys were beating a fourth to death and one of them was bouncing the guy's head off a brick wall. There was no time for reading from lawbooks. I put the shot in the air and pointed the snub nose at them.