{"id":8497,"date":"2024-09-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8497"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:09:33","slug":"self-defense-at-longer-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/self-defense-at-longer-distances\/","title":{"rendered":"SELF DEFENSE AT LONGER DISTANCES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One shibboleth you often run across in discussions of armed self-defense is \u201cIf you shoot anyone more than seven yards away from you, you\u2019re screwed in court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As someone who has earned his primary income from teaching use of force for a very long time, I beg to differ. If the guy you had to shoot had a gun, the very fact that you shot him with yours meant that he was probably capable of shooting you with his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonoutdoors.com\/article\/long-distance-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from <em>Combat Handguns <\/em>magazine, which is now online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long range shot with the gun you have with you \u2013 most likely a sidearm \u2013 is rare, but can and does happen. Accordingly, you want to know that you and your gun can do it. Consider Vic Stacy\u2019s very long shot with a super-accurate Colt Python .357 Magnum that saved a cop\u2019s life and his own from a multiple murderer, or Jack Wilson\u2019s precision brain shot at some fifteen yards with a .357 SIG P229 like the one I\u2019m holding in the picture, which he fired double action on no more than five seconds notice to stop a multiple murderer in his church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One shibboleth you often run across in discussions of armed self-defense is \u201cIf you shoot anyone more than seven yards away from you, you\u2019re screwed in court.\u201d As someone who has earned his primary income from teaching use of force for a very long time, I beg to differ. If the guy you had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8498,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions\/8498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}