WinterBorn
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- Nov 18, 2011
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You don't need a hit for defense, that fact ruins your whole argument.
You're aware bullets go really far? What happens when you're out on the street and miss? Think that bullet just stops? What if you're home and it goes through a window?
Yes, criminals often flee when they hear a gun fired. But not always. Are you willing to risk your life and the lives of your family on the hope that they will leave?
Yes, I am aware that bullets go really far. That is why I select bullets that are designed NOT to over-penetrate. We have MagSafe or Glaser Safety Slugs in our guns. A window might not stop them, but even drywall will.
None of the arguments you are presenting here have anything to do with magazine capacity. The first shot will be as likely to go thru a window as the 15th shot will.
I have a revolver for defense so yes. A very well done study shows defense on average is 2 shots.
So should we make your ammo mandatory? Some of the guns people use will go through a car and still kill somebody. Sorry but the more shots fired the more likely an innocent person gets hit by a stray.
And if your accuracy is the same as the improved score of the trained law enfocrement officers in NYC, you will score 1.5 hits. Which means if 3 bad guys break in and don't run, you will end up dead. Oh, and so will your family.
Yes, the study you seem so fond of shows 2 shots fired on average out of less than 500 incidents in which someone used a firearm to defend themselves.
Oh, and since you insist that you don't need a hit for defense, why was the second shot fired in all those instances? Or was only one shot fired in hundreds of cases, and 12 fired in a handful? Your study does not show that, does it?