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I think Carruth's main issue is going to be the heartbeat he took to aim and fire when Read swung him off the porch.
What's hard about that, is that taking aim and firing can become a stereotyped pattern with practice and so the brain signal to fire, sets this entire sequence of physical acts in motion (including the pause) and on video it looks really bad. Perhaps that is why Rittenhouse apears so circumspect in his defensive shootings -- he had only fired that rifle 1x before (and only a couple hundred rounds at clay pigeons) and so he hadn't practiced using it in any meaningful way. As a result he had to make a more conscious choice for each physical act of shooting and ironically on video, that may have appeared to be more fluid and perfect. Had he practiced more, elements of taking aim and firing might have gotten compressed into a single non-conscious stream of motions that included the pause to aim, and that would have looked bad on film even if it was only one conscious brain signal. I guess the takeaway is to practice shooting even more -- enough so the half-second beat for aiming is eliminated, because that pause might convict you even though it is just an unconscious pattern of behavior that is part and parcel of the "shoot" decision.
What's hard about that, is that taking aim and firing can become a stereotyped pattern with practice and so the brain signal to fire, sets this entire sequence of physical acts in motion (including the pause) and on video it looks really bad. Perhaps that is why Rittenhouse apears so circumspect in his defensive shootings -- he had only fired that rifle 1x before (and only a couple hundred rounds at clay pigeons) and so he hadn't practiced using it in any meaningful way. As a result he had to make a more conscious choice for each physical act of shooting and ironically on video, that may have appeared to be more fluid and perfect. Had he practiced more, elements of taking aim and firing might have gotten compressed into a single non-conscious stream of motions that included the pause to aim, and that would have looked bad on film even if it was only one conscious brain signal. I guess the takeaway is to practice shooting even more -- enough so the half-second beat for aiming is eliminated, because that pause might convict you even though it is just an unconscious pattern of behavior that is part and parcel of the "shoot" decision.