Those perceptions are not very realistic, but leave that pass for now.

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Even on those two highly favorable (and not very realistic) assumptions, the judges rated the majority of the self-defensive gun uses as falling into one of the two illegal categories.

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Probably not, but the Challenge was never very realistic in any case.

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We cannot feel it right now, but to be realistic, the situation is not very good now.

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