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So what is the bottom line of the
Buick O' Truth?
1. You do NOT want to be in the passenger
compartment of a vehicle when someone opens
up on it with a firearm.
As I was at Blackwater this week, my dentist
was driving from his home with his wife
to go to dinner when their jackass neighbor
opened up on their vehicle with a firearm.
His wife is dead and he is still in the
intensive care unit on a vent at UVA.
If someone starts shooting at you while
you are in a vehicle, get the hell out of
there NOW. Hit the accelerator and if you
have to run the bastard over, do it.
A car provides little in the way of cover,
but it DOES give you the power to move fast
which makes you harder to hit. Use that
to your advantage.
2. If you cannot move, you CAN fight from
inside the vehicle. By "fight"
I do not mean that you can set up camp and
shoot it out with the badguys from inside
the vehicle. I mean that you can open fire
on the bad guys so they are at least getting
some incoming rounds while you try to escape.
3. If your vehicle cannot move, GET AWAY
FROM IT ASAP. You have about 8 seconds to
get away from the vehicle before your chances
of survival are nill. As you can see from
the Buick O' Truth, it doesn't take much
to punch through the sides of a car with
bullets.
A determined adversary with some ammo can
turn your "cover" into a death
trap in seconds. If your vehicle cannot
move, you are better off getting away from
the vehicle and going prone to return effective
fire than you are holding up behind the
vehicle waiting to get shot.
"But...That is leaving my only cover!"
I can hear someone object.
Firstly, the Buick O' Truth isn't cover.
It is a gigantic bullet magnet, and if you
are hiding behind it you are more likely
to end up shot than you are to use it effectively
for cover. Real life engagements have shown
that bad guys tend to focus on and shoot
the hell out of the vehicle, and that if
the good guys can get away from the vehicle
and get prone that they are able to return
fire effectively while the bad guys remain
fixated on the vehicle.
4. If you must shoot into the passenger
compartment of a vehicle, it is almost impossible
to predict what will happen to the bullet
or the people inside that passenger compartment.
When I said that there were bullet jackets
and fragments everywhere, I meant it. Your
bullet could penetrate through two people
and keep going out the trunk, or it could
be so damaged by entering the vehicle that
it doesn't have the energy to break the
skin of the person you are trying to stop,
and the difference between those two outcomes
can be 1/4 of an inch.
5. Shooting stuff is fun.
6. Shooting stuff isn't as much fun when
you start to picture yourself inside a vehicle
that you have just turned into swiss cheese.
It takes some of the fun out of things to
realize just how exposed you are. In fact,
it is darn scary to see the passenger compartment
shredded with chunks of bullet lying all
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