I think this illustrates the problem with a good guy with a gun. It is hard to hit the target. And there can be a lot of running screaming people in the eay.
That doesn't matter. The fact that the bad guy is getting shot at is enough. They either die at their own hands or get shot by the cops. Either way, the sooner you engage, the sooner they die.
Depends. He missed. He could have ended up shooting someone else. That's always the flip side of the scenario when it involves non-professionals.
So he was lucky.
When I joined the Sheriffs Auxiliary Volunteers, I went down to the deputies training center, and went through their simulated "shoot, don't shoot" training simulation. Now, I am a pretty good shot. In fact, I can remove the top of a Tabasco bottle with my .22 at 20 yards. Anyway, I'm facing a green screen with scenarios of dangerous situations unfolding. In two cases, I was killed, because I did not think that the perp. was armed. In two cases, I missed a human sized target at about 12-15 feet. In two cases, I did not shoot when I should not have shot. In one case, I lived and the bad guy died.. I asked the instructor how in the hell I could have missed those two guys. He told me, and I quote, "I would have been surprised if you had hit them. Most people's brains turn to mush when confronted with a target that is shooting back. Hardly anyone lives through all scenarios, without months of training."