Ferrari Mailing List: Re: High Capacity Magazine Firearms

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Dave:
 
What you say is true if the injuries are limited to that single area, but  
trauma may be more generalized. The speed consideration is a valid point,  
however, as well as, depending upon how his gear is worn, accessibility to  
additional magazines, available cover, etc. I didn't mean to imply that the 
only  
reason why a backup firearm is used in tac ops is injury, it is just one of  
them.
 
My assumption that you and I are perhaps the only "qualified SWAT officers"  
on the list has a high probability of a validity. I do believe that anyone who 
 is not "duty bound" and who cannot clearly articulate a valid probability of 
 success in a conflict environment should make disengagement their principle  
tactic. Additionally, it would be a rare circumstance in which an armed 
civilian  would be anything but a distraction to trained personnel in any 
emergency 
 situation. Imagine trying to first determine which armed individual is an  
adversary and which is a well-meaning but untrained coincidental participant,  
then worrying about what an untrained individual will do with a firearm under  
stress, and third, what collateral damage will that third party do during the 
 course of events. The only, IMNSHO, appropriate action for a civilian, armed 
or  otherwise is disengagement and reporting unless immediate action on their 
part  is required to intervene in a imminently life-threatening event. Even 
when they  are witnesses to an armed confrontation, unless they reliably 
discern the  intent, and projected behaviors of the participant, and have 
sufficient 
 training, as well as some means of ready identification and recognition by  
arriving public service personnel, they are far more likely to exacerbate the  
situation than to bring it to a favorable resolution. None of this being  
applicable if that civilian is in his/her own home or on their own property and 
 
they are the victim.
 
Dr. Steve