WinterBorn
Diamond Member
Analysis of Five Years of Armed Encounters (With Data Tables)
Civilian self-defense shootings fall into two categories:
- 2 or fewer shots fired
- Entire magazine emptied (person just pulling trigger until they have no more ammo, whether needed or not)
Quantam, you are wrong. If you need a gun for self defense, odds are, you wont need more than 1-2 shots. Unless you are a typical redneck with no training who panics and just keeps firing until empty......sending bullets God-knows-where into the street or parking lot.
Quantam, I see you responded to yourself when you realized I DID provide a link. And the stats show, that you will almost never need more than 2 shots.
The need for 30? Or 60? Just never gonna happen.
Even with the small sampling used in the report, there is a LOT of room for misunderstanding what the numbers actually mean.
There were 482 shootings in the study. If 382 of those involved one shot fired by the defender (and the report DID state that the most common response to the sound of gunfire was flight), and 100 of those shootings involved firing 6 rounds, the average number of rounds fired would be 2.
Considering that the number of times a firearm is used to stop a crime is usually quoted in the hundreds of thousands, to say that there will never be a need for 30 rounds is just bullshit. Perhaps you are willing to risk your life (and the lives of loved ones) on such a small sampling and stats, but many people are not.