Yes, you really do have to be quicker than that.

We all saw that post, the one of the woman being shot dead because she couldn’t draw her gun from its holster fast enough. It was horrible.But it also serves as a reminder and hopefully a wake up call to some of us. Yes, these are in fact timed events. Only, the timer isn’t a little blue box that beeps at you, it’s someone else’s gun going off and ending your life.Buy a shot timer. Seriously, there aren’t many ways to get better at drawing your pistol than by actually timing your draw to first shot in dry fire and in live fire. Make sure you can do it really fucking fast when you need to, and make sure you can do it smoothly and discreetly when you need to.Take classes beyond the mandated CCW qualification, and if at all possible you should shoot competition with your carry gear. Competition and force on force training are really the only two types of stress inoculation we can get as civilians, and they’re the two that everyone who teaches people to use guns for a living or have used guns for a living suggest to get better at freeing your mind from the mechanical problems of drawing and firing so you can focus on the greater problem at hand.Take this as you will, but if you’ve never timed your draw to first shot, or generally carry gear that you’re unfamiliar with because you think you’ll figure it out when the time comes, you fucking won’t.We don’t rise to the occasion, we fall to the level of our training. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/2V5LdH7