If you are not training yourself to move at the start of a gunfight, chances are pretty good you will not win that gunfight.
Consider this: You have one chance to prevail in a deadly force encounter. Most people never trade shots with a bad guy. Anyone who does is typically only involved in one gunfight in his or her entire life. That incident is very likely to last only a few seconds.
In the unlikely event that you do have to use your gun for self-defense, you will have just one chance to do what you need to do to win. So, let’s go back to my first rule of a gunfight: Don’t get shot. Getting shot greatly reduces your chances of winning the fight. (As an aside here, remember also that if you do get shot, you should not quit. Keep fighting until you can no longer physically continue. If you do that, you seriously increase your chances of winning. But I digress.)
by Kevin Michalowski