What Would You Do: Armed Home Invasion

 

Your home is invaded by an armed perpetrator and your family is about to be slaughtered by the burglar using a deadly weapon like an axe chain saw ice pick , can you just shoot the perpetrator in his thighs to incapacitate him? 

Gregg Kielma, USCCA Firearms Instructor teaches this in all his classes. Continues Kielma, please see below, this is exactly what I teach in my USCCA CCW training class concerning, where do you shoot? Which body has the most success rate of stopping a perpetrator from advancing on you, your family, loved ones or friends.

Kielma continues, do you know why the military, police and self-defenders are taught to aim for the center mass???? A couple of reasons.

• Appendages, including the head tend to move quickly, while the body tends to move slower, so the body is easier to hit.

• The goal of shooting someone, whether by the military, police or a self-defender, is to stop the threat. The best way to stop the threat is to hit vital organs like the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys. All vital organs are contained in the center of mass.

• Making it more likely to hit the target makes it less likely stray rounds will go off and hit unintentional targets.

This is why we do not aim/shoot at limbs. Even snipers generally do not aim for head shots, unless the target absolutely needs to be stopped right now and no other body parts are available. If the best-trained shooters in the world don't aim for limbs, why would an amateur, under stress, attempting to save lives?High percentage, high likelihood of success targets is what we shoot for.