OK, what are you going to do when ten rounds hit him and the baddie doesn’t stop?
Why one cop carries 145 rounds of ammo on the job
The problem is that nothing is 100% guaranteed in real life. My own preferred weapon is the .357 Magnum. When fired, the round has nearly double the kinetic energy of the .45 used by the police officer who fired just about every single round he had on him at the baddie. He reloaded his pistol twice during the shootout. Now, the cop was using a round he believed to be superior, and extremely effective, but the baddie despite having multiple hits to “vital organs” which were “kill shots” stayed on his feet, and continued attacking.
There is no such thing as one size fits all. You make your choice, weapon, capacity, and caliber. You roll the dice that your choice was correct in that horrific moment that pits your life against the life of an attacker.
This is one of the ways in which we differ. I believe you should be free to make whatever choice you feel proper for your personal safety, and protect. I don’t encourage you to follow my reasoning. I will give you mine if you like, but in the end, it’s your life, and your choice.
As I said my Magnum is roughly twice as powerful, using the Kinetic Energy calculations, as the 9MM. It is far more powerful than the .45 used by the cop, but has similar “one shot stop” statistics from real world shootings.
Notice if you bother to watch the video, there is no weapon, none, that has a 100% one shot stop result from real world shootings. None have even as 90% one shot stop result. The best you can say is that it is a coin toss. Heads, you’ll stop the baddie, tails, you won’t. In some cases, nothing you can shoot him with will stop him. The cop from above, shot the man in the head, and he still lived at the scene.
Now, imagine you are fighting for the lives of your loved ones. You fire your ten rounds, and then what? Perhaps you stopped one baddie, but what if there were just one more baddie? They tend to travel in packs you know. We call these others accomplices.
Even if you are fortunate, and you like the cop fire your ten rounds of .45 ACP, and the baddie doesn’t stop, do you have time to reload? Or do you just toss the gun over your shoulder and accept your death?
I want you to have every tool available for your safety, I do not feel so arrogant that I believe I know what is best for you. I would never foist my choices or beliefs upon you.
If you believe ten rounds is enough, then make your play, but don’t push your belief on anyone else. Your rights end, where mine begin. That has long been the truth of equality under the law.
Sorry, but gun owners' rights END where innocent civilian lives are being taken, on a daily basis. You people need to wake up.
You don't need to worry about it anyway--you've got a Magnum.
What is always curious to me is a trend we Americans have. Perhaps you can help me. Six gangsters use Thompson Submachine Guns to kill other people. None of the other million or so people with automatic weapons which were legal up until then did anything, so we outlaw the weapon the six gangsters used.
Less than one percent of the people buying Sudafed cook it into Crystal Meth. So we limit and prosecute people for buying Sudafed. This has had a huge effect on the production of Crystal Meth, it is up over 1,000%.
One percent of the people who are proscribed Opiods for chronic pain are abusing them. So we restrict Opiods, and cause tens of thousands of people to commit suicide to escape the agonizing pain they are enduring.
Example after example, it is always the same. Less than one percent and instead of focusing on the behavior of those who are breaking the existing rules, we pass laws to punish the other 99% who aren’t. Why? Because morons want to blame the inanimate object, Teddy Roosevelt took two machine guns with him during the Spanish American Wars, both were privately owned, purchased and donated to the unit, by a citizen in New Jersey.
Guns have no soul, nor any mind. They are inanimate objects. Like the cars that are used by Drunk Drivers to kill many. Only you want to blame Ford for making the car, instead of the idiot who got behind the wheel. You want to blame Porsche for making a car that went so fast, instead of the driver who lost control and killed himself, and Paul Walker.
The tool never committed the crime, and banning or restricting never ends the problem. Death by overdoses of Opiods has remained about the same. Why? The people overdosing are using Heroine, Fentinol, and other illegal drugs. The people suffering indescribable pain are the ones suffering to the point where they can’t take it anymore. Because of people like you, who operate under the idea that you know what is best for everyone.
Yes. I have a Magnum. You should be glad that not many of us have them. You see, as I pointed out more than once, the Magnum has twice the kinetic energy of a 9MM or even a .45ACP. What that means is that the wound from a Magnum is much, much worse. It tends to be through and through, instead of stopping inside the body. That means there are two holes to let the blood out, and many more destroyed blood vessels to leak from. The speed of the projectile also creates hydrostatic damage to the tissues. What that means is more of the tissue is torn and shredded, causing even faster loss of blood.
The bullet once it passes through a person, and it is highly likely that it will pass through, tends to continue on its merry way, possibly striking and killing a second person.
You see, if you limit the magazine size, then people will go for a much bigger, more powerful bullet instead. Right now, you have better than seventy percent probability of survival if you get shot. If everyone switches to Magnum rounds, that drops to just above fifty percent probability. In other words, you are going to see a lot more dead people, instead of wounded people. If as you say, your goal is to see people live, why are you setting up the scenario where more of them will die?
Thousands more will die every year, and will you blame your own actions? Your pathological hatred of the inanimate object known as a gun? Your knee jerk response of ban it? No. You’ll blame the gun again, just as idiots are right now blaming Opiods for the increase in Suicides.
I on the other hands, encourage you, and everyone, to live you lives your way, so long as you don’t harm another. When you do harm another, I believe you should be punished by law. We already have laws on the books for using a weapon in a criminal manner, what those laws have not done is end gun violence, because you can’t end anything with words on paper. Ask anyone who has been watching the Drug War, now entering it’s fiftieth successful year.
