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My opinion is--unless you are already drawn--anyone within 6 ft of you can "sucker punch you" and have you down before you can draw--
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Go out and run some trials, and have a number of different people attack you without warning.
You will find that they can get to you before you can draw and fire from a
whole lot farther than six feet.
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The problem is a split-second response is called for--and making the wrong call may cost you your life--or someone else their's.
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Yes, if you have a basis for a reasonable belief that you are about to be attacked, you will have very little time in which to react.
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HOW the potential attacker becomes aware you are armed is irrelevant IMO.
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What will be important is your basis for suspecting that they "perceive " that you are are armed. If you have no such basis, you will not react. You may do
something for whatever reason, but you will not be defending yourself.
And more than that , what it is that gives you a reasonable basis for believing that the will attack you if you do not threaten or use force.
he idea that you will be afforded the chance to realize that and react is pretty far out.