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Originally Posted by logisticsclerk
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Because the first to draw was probably the criminal or an amateur trying to gun down a pro.
I do not think that reaction time has anything to do with it. You cannot ourdraw a guy with his gun already in his hand. He is inside your OODA Loop. All you can hope to do is to be more effective when you finally manage to take action. All of the firearms and reaction time research I have ever seen indicates that the person initiating the action is almost always faster than the reaction, since the initiator has no response to beat, and the reactor does. Watch a drag race. If you were keying off of the movement of your opponent's car, rather than the tree, you would be at a significant disadvantage. Time to recognize and decide to act adds several tenths of a second to the response.
Drawing is not the same as hitting. I would not expect the Brit media to understand that difference.
"Speed is fine, accuracy is final."
TR
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