At the risk of over analyzing, take a look at the clerks trigger finger. Safely pointed forward and off the trigger. He even seems to realize he’s pointing a loaded gun at somebody and pulls away! In a stress situation we do as we train. The guy has good handing skills and those are what took over in the heat of the moment.
I don’t advocate bad gun handling, but I think the guy has never thought about any of the ‘What Ifs’ of having a firearm ready for use, carried or on the shelf.
We can’t often sacrifice safe handling, but we can think ahead and ponder what if this, or what if that. I’ve often thought about a gun pointed at me, and like the clerk I’d be handing over cash in the traditional you say “Jump” I answer “How high?” mode. Beyond that, I’ve firmly put it into my head that should the chance offer itself that I can pull my own gun, in my mind anyway, the trigger will be pulled.
Never having had the chance to prove the theory it remains that. But I have good confidence that it will work.
At the risk of over analyzing, take a look at the clerks trigger finger. Safely pointed forward and off the trigger. He even seems to realize he’s pointing a loaded gun at somebody and pulls away! In a stress situation we do as we train. The guy has good handing skills and those are what took over in the heat of the moment.