I like to think that I would have drawn and tried to stop the gunman from killing more innocents, me, or those with me. Having not been in that situation, I just don't know. I know I can use my gun. I know I can draw it, point it, and hit a target...but I don't know how my brain would react in that situation, because I haven't been there. Once drawn, I don't know that I would have had the instinct and training to NOT fire...tunnel vision may have taken over for me...just being honest...which is a bad thing. I don't know. I may have frozen in shock and pissed myself too.

Drawing that pistol presents a huge risk...you are all-in at that point...no going back.

My Dad had a revolver pointed at his face, point blank, standing in line at a Winn Dixie years ago as it was being robbed. He said he didn't really panic or feel overwhelming fear - all that was going through his mind was thoughts about what could be sitting around him to use as a weapon...and he remembers focusing on a can of pork-n-beans on the conveyor belt in front of him, wondering if he could get to it and get it upside the guys head if he started shooting people. True story.