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I have yet to encounter a civilian that has had to use a gun for self defense beyond 3 yards and fire more than 3 or 4 rounds. It COULD happen, but I haven't seen it.
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Of the sixty-plus actual civilian defensive shooing incidents described by Tom Givens in Chapter 7 of
Straight Talk on Armed Defense, 92 percent took place within three and seven yards, and 5 percent took place at greater than seven yards.
That leaves 3 percent at "arms length or shorter".
That is an extremely small data sample. It
may serve to
illustrate the probable range of distances, but that's about it.
One thing to consider: a person will rarely really constitute an imminent threat to another unless the distance is short; the defender will not have drawn before the threat is presented; and the time it takes to recognize the treat and to draw and fire at an attacker will likely leave
very little distance.
Yet we do see numerous people practicing against stationary targets at a distance of seven yards.