[federali]

I think it was football legend Vince Lombardi who said: "practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect."

The elements critical to the successful use of force in self defense, ranked in order of importance, are: mindset, judgment, tactics, marksmanship and firearm. So, you are indeed correct in saying that you must be mentally willing to inflict great pain, even death, in an effort to stop your adversary from doing whatever prompted you to shoot.

American law enforcement has never had better firearms training. Yet, an LEO dies on the job about one every 56 hours. Simply, put, the best trainers in the world have considerable difficulty successfully re-programming a person's mindset.