Citation Needed. Seriously, as someone who's had "hard, rigorous, proper training", I am continuously amazed by all the people without it who responsibly defen

Citation Needed. Seriously, as someone who's had "hard, rigorous, proper training", I am continuously amazed by all the people without it who responsibly defend themselves. Over two million times a year in the US (in the vast majority of these cases no shot is ever fired). And your latter point seldom holds true, when it's gun vs. gun, the armed citizen is generally smart enough to draw his gun when he believes his assailant won't have enough time to respond. One of the reasons the canard about criminals taking guns away from women never seems to actually happen.