I agree that in general, defeating someone in gunfighting is not as impressive as beating someone in fistfighting. But it also depends on how you shoot. Shooting point blank would be seen as scared pussy, but a few hundreds feet away could be perceived as impressive as it'd show that the shooter is a dedicated shooter who possessed a considerable amount of skills in shooting a gun eventhough it has little to do with masculinity.
LOL. I cringed so hard reading this. "Considerable amount of skills in shooting a gun". Lmfao. Get a grip. You sound like one of these guys:
Secondly, it takes a lot of guts to be in a gunfighting in the first place (I'm not talking about shooting someone from the back). So your opinion of beating someone in gunfighting not being a sign of masculinity might not be entirely true.
Except we're not talking about being "in a gunfighting". We're talking about a short man pulling a gun on an unarmed taller man because he can't beat him in a fight with his bare hands.
And shooting guns (at any skill level) not being a "sign" of masculinity is not "my" opinion. It's the opinion of the overwhelming majority of people. There's nothing inherently or classically masculine about shooting a gun.
A person who wants to be good at fist-fighting (that is, a pugilist, or "martial artist", what you like to roleplay as on this board) needs to develop their physique - they need to develop strength and endurance, which generally results in developing a robust and chiseled physique (a trait that is decidedly considered "masculine"). This is on TOP of the countless hours of practice they need to do in order to develop the skill they need to consistently beat their opponents.
Firing a gun does not require that type of conditioning. Anyone, even a little girl or a shrunken, hunched-over grandmother, can shoot a gun, and shoot it well (with enough practice).
Needless to say, soldiers use gun, mafia uses gun, cowboys uses gun, even punk uses gun. Why isn't there anyone saying Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson are scared pussies?
Lmao. Are you serious?
There isn't anyone saying Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson are scared pussies because they're ACTORS playing a ROLE in ACTION MOVIES. Not only that, the roles they play are typically masculine, aggressive roles, i.e. Clint Eastwood in
The Good, Bad and the Ugly. They play the role of average-height/tall men with guns who go around shooting OTHER average-height/tall men with guns, many of whom shoot at THEM first.
That is NOTHING like a scared 5'4" man frantically pulling his comically oversized (relative to his hands) Glock 21 on a 6'3" man who decided to push him around because he knows he can curbstomp him in a fistfight.
Sometimes it's not always about impressing people and attracting the opposite sxx, but getting the job done. Fact is a gun can put your enemy away for eternal in a wink of an eye regardless of how impressive it is.
Yeah, a gun can put your enemy away "for eternal", immediately after which
you will get put away "for eternal" - in prison, for manslaughter. Lmfao @ "getting the job done". The only thing that will be "done" if you pull a gun on someone, let alone fire it, and DEFINITELY let alone kill someone with it, is your life.
I suspect you've never shot or even so much as held a gun in your life. You talk like an immature teenager who seriously thinks guns are a "great equalizer" that are a counter to tall men who get physical with you.
Guess what? They're not. Every bullet shot from a gun you own has a lawyer attached to it, and depending on where that bullet lands, you may or may not end up wishing you'd just gotten your ass beaten instead, because you won't feel like a "masculine" badass martial artist movie hero (or whatever delusional larger-than-life role you're projecting onto yourself today) when you're sitting on a cot in a maximum security cell surrounded by ACTUAL thugs and badasses who tower you and will bash your face in for looking at them wrong. And guess what else? You won't have any guns to save you in prison.
It might not a benefit everyone would experience. But an advantage is still an advantage. Short people who are not looking to get laid every night might not reap the benefit of LL as much.
I've never met a single man who considered being a "smaller target" for gunfire an advantage. I'm acquainted with a 5'3" Army veteran who served in a combat role in Afghanistan on Operation Enduring Freedom, and he regularly mentioned how his squad experience was absolute dog because of his height. Squadmates didn't respect him, even people from other squads fked with him for fun. He's never once mentioned anything about being a "smaller target" and I'm sure he'd probably laugh his ass off if I suggested it was an "advantage".
This whole premise is stupid to begin with. Gunfights don't work the way you think they do. Cover exists. Nobody shoots from a position where they're open in real life unless they're total retards, and if that's the case, you're as good as dead no matter how "small" of a target you are. What a joke.
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