JP>-> I'd welcome anything Jeff Cooper has to say to me at any time.  I
JP>-> may not always follow it, and may occasionally disagree with it as a
JP>-> personal issue, but I'd hardly deign to think of it as an
JP>-> encompassing wrong.
JP>I dunno.  I have a great deal of respect for Cooper, and read his
JP>comments and articles with great interest.
JP>But a system where you send a bullet downrange, knowing it's probably
JP>going to miss?  You may get away with this on the range, but on the
JP>STREET?  Something, or **SOMEBODY** is going to stop it.  Cooper seems
JP>awfully cavalier about this last possibility.
What?  JC was not advocating this in the least.  I was speaking about 
other differences we have, such as DA pistols and .40S&W vs. .45acp, etc.  
The 'system' you mention is oft refered to as the heinlien manoeuvre, as 
Robert Heinlein once advocated  "get a shot off fast, it'll
throw your opponent and allow you time to get a better aimed second shot
in to take him out".  Perhaps this would work in Boondock, where the term 
lawyer is not even known, and bystanders are always conveniently never 
behind the bad guy, but as a practical matter on earth of today, I'm sure 
even Heinlein would see the error of doing this as a general technique.
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