Posted on 07/29/2018 8:30:00 AM PDT by Simon Green
The bigger the gun, the deadlier it is. Or, rather, the bullet.
The Washington Posts Christopher Ingraham on Friday highlighted a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open that found larger-caliber firearms are much likelier to kill a shooting victim than smaller-caliber ones. Caliber measures the internal diameter of the barrel of the gun, or how wide the bullet is.
Analyzing data on hundreds of shootings in Boston between 2010 and 2014, researchers Anthony Braga of Northeastern University and Philip Cook of Duke University discovered that on a bullet-by-bullet basis, shootings with larger-caliber guns were deadlier than smaller-caliber handguns, but theyre not more accurate. Shootings with a medium-caliber weapon were 2.3 times likelier to result in death than with a small-caliber gun; large-caliber guns increased the odds of death by 4.5 times compared to small-caliber guns.
The implication, Braga and Cook wrote, is that replacing medium- and large-caliber guns with small-caliber guns would have resulted in a 39.5 percent reduction in gun deaths.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Coming next: Does being hit by an 18-wheeler semi do more damage than being hit by a bicycle? Researchers want to know!
Researchers want to be funded! There. Fixed. ;-)
Vox must have some really dumb subscribers.
Yet the .22 and .25, combined, kill more people worldwide than any caliber.
So when they are done with BIG BULLETS they will start with TINY KILLERS.
1) gun beats no gun
2) fast beats slow
3) a hit beats a miss
4) big holes beat small holes
5) two holes beat one hole
I wish to study the leathality of the various kitchen knives in my knife block, from the decoration and paring knives to the 10” boning knife and chef’s knife.
Where do sign up for the research grant?
I would propose the UK, given their push for knife control.
WOW! Bigger guns firing bigger bullets do more damage. Shocking! I’m so glad these geniuses did this important study. Otherwise, we never would have known.
Say, I wonder if muzzle velocity matters at all? There’s a topic for another groundbreaking study!
The whole point of shooting a gun is to kill what you’re aiming at. When exactly would you not want your shot to kill?
Does this mean they want us all to buy M-16 equivalents? After all, the small assault bullets will be less likely to kill than my 44.
It hurts.
Because everyone knows the .223 cal bushmaster with a 30 round mag is . wait a minute...wut?
Hmmmm... No mention of the reason for shooting the decedent.
It’s almost like they don’t care!
So did outlawing drugs end drug trafficking and addiction?
Just wondering.
Wellllll....who would have thought.......there is a well known and researched study of hundreds of handgun deaths with info gleaned from police reports that indicates shot placement is a much more reliable lethality predictor than caliber in general...
I think they didn't include the .45 ACP because most people defend themselves with a .45 by just showing the cartridge and the bad guy passes out from fear that if shot it will kill their soul. They rarely need to be shot after that. Even the mere mention that you know what a .45 ACP looks like and most bad guys run away and their hair turns white. (/s)
They say that the information undermines the argument that “people kill people...not guns”.....how the “information” presented lessens the contribution of people from the equation is an “insight” which demonstrates the writers separation from logic and real life.
Water still boils at 212° sea level altitude...
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