ScienceNOW: Have you ever noticed that the first gunslinger to draw his gun in a movie is invariably the one to get shot? Nobel prize winning physicist Niels Bohr did, once arranging mock duels to test the validity of this...

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I do not wish to lessen the value of this fellows work but, I feel some part of my understanding is faulty... Yes those pistols used for dueling were not all to accurate. Even in the westerns from america the second slow and careful might be a risk., but more likely to find its target...
I ant no rocket scientist... but please tell me this is not all of this story.