Shooting advice from TV shows that'll get you killed

[Alan]

Shooting from the hip like they do in Westerns is a great way to miss everything. Holding a pistol sideways looks cool until you realize the sights don't work that way. And my personal favorite, shooting the gun out of someone's hand. That's not a thing. That's not how any of this works. Entertainment isn't training.

 

[Shots_fired]

If hip‑firing worked that well, nobody would bother using sights in real life.

 

[Krane]

Movies make you think shooting is way more exciting than it is. Someone asked me if I could shoot from the hip once, and I was like, seriously?

 

[flash60601]

I have a thing about shooting from "close retention". If the barrel is ported, you just might need a new shirt, too.

 

[FritzHlzr]

The entire entertainment industry indoctrinates ideas that will get you killed in real world situations. The idea that two people or more can point guns at each other while they talk things out is the most obvious. Another is a fire fight takes place and no innocent bystanders nearby get shot. Or try hiding behind a car or a garbage can. And then you have recent generations that now think you just restart the game when you "run out of lives".