Originally Posted by
T0ribush
You would be stupid going in for a kill shot. Any human being, ANY human being that isn't hopped up on drugs would stop running if you capped them in the leg. If a bat can do, a bullet can do it. And not to mention you haven't murdered the guy, he's laying there in excruciating pain because you just destroyed his god damn shin bone, He's immobile and he's there for the cops now, instead of letting the man run off and do it again to someone who's more helpless than you, take him down right there and now.
Also it just so happens stabbings, brutal beatings, and downright getting pushed into oncoming steel is more common than some guy robbing you at gun point. That shit is unlikely, It's knife point that you should watch out for, I had it happen to me more than a couple of times.
Also have fun running from thugs who out run the police once a week. That shit is hard. They may not have endurance, but they mostl likely have enough speed to catch you before their shitty tobacco lungs give in. Sometimes you just got to stay and fight with a Weapon.
A trained officer has a 15% chance to hit the right person under stress. Not a specific part, just in general hitting the person.
A civilian that handles the paperwork to get a handgun and takes a weekend class of 2 hours length where they basically just hear an NRA recruitment speech will almost certainly have an even worse chance of hitting a target under stress, let alone small, moving targets like the legs.
Transplant that into the same scenario, you've just been robbed. Your stress is high. Even under the assumption you're trained, you have well under 15% chance to shoot a person in the leg. This also assumes you're thinking clearly enough under the stress to rationalize shooting them in the leg rather than the chest. And this also assumes they're still within reasonable range by the time you draw your gun. 20 feet can be covered before a gun can be drawn and fired in the general direction, 40 to 50 feet is the likely distance you'd be shooting at them, assuming they haven't ducked around a corner.
And all that assumes they didn't steal your gun as well.
Quite frankly, the odds don't support any benefit of having a gun when robbed.