As reported widely on FOX NEWS, MSNBC, Washington Post and other media outlets, Governor Rick Perry of Texas utilized a Ruger LCP with the Crimson Trace Laserguard to dispatch a Coyote that was threatening him and his dog while jogging outside of Austin recently. He told AP reporters after the incident that it only took one shot from his Ruger .380 handgun equipped with the Crimson Trace Laserguard to take down the menacing coyote. Perry said the laser helped make a quick, clean kill. “It was not in a lot of pain,” Gov. Perry said. “It pretty much went down at that particular juncture. He became mulch.” Click here for video of Governor Perry at the range shooting his Laserguard equipped Ruger LCP.
As reported widely on FOX NEWS, MSNBC, Washington Post and other media outlets, Governor Rick Perry of Texas utilized a Ruger LCP with the Crimson Trace Laserguard to dispatch a Coyote that was threatening him and his dog while jogging outside of Austin recently. He told AP reporters after the incident that it only took one shot from his Ruger .380 handgun equipped with the Crimson Trace Laserguard to take down the menacing coyote.
Perry said the laser helped make a quick, clean kill. “It was not in a lot of pain,” Gov. Perry said. “It pretty much went down at that particular juncture. He became mulch.”
Click here for video of Governor Perry at the range shooting his Laserguard equipped Ruger LCP.
Now, the left and the Jurassic Media (but I repeat myself) are in a tizzy because Perry dared use a LASER as if somehow it conferred magical ability to the wielder to hit his intended target with 0 effort and that by using said magic was unsportsmanlike, unfair, cruel and unusual.
A laser is nothing more than a different sighting method. You can use the sights on the gun which require lining up the notch in the rear blade with the front sight, you could use a holographic dot or an optic with crosshairs, or you could project a bright dot at the general area where you'd like the bullet to go.
The laser makes you no more or less accurate of a shooter than had you used open sights or another optic. You still are required to control the firearm once you've pulled the trigger to maintain the barrel's vector. What a laser does is simply make target acquisition faster.
Using the gun sights takes training, and for best results you need to focus on the front sight while letting the target go fuzzy. A laser allows you to maintain focus on the threat while still seeing where your pistol is generally aiming. Things like bullet drop, jerking the gun, anticipating recoil, and the distance you may have zeroed the laser at all still play a factor in where the bullet eventually ends up. The laser doesn't provide some sort of heat seeking target for the bullet to latch onto (and even if it did, the bullet wouldn't generally hit the target anyway due to recoil).
With pocket pistols like the Ruger LCP and my KelTec P3AT, the sight radius (distance between the rear and front) is so ridiculously short as to be practically useless. A Crimson Trace laser is a must have for such a tiny pistol, and is very useful short range scenarios where fast acquisition is required. Use of a laser device is not a magical talisman and still requires training and practice to utilize correctly, no matter what Hollywood or the latest version of Call of Duty tell you.
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