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 ...
Another exercise in stupidity.
Slow hit beats fast miss
Yup, stupid liberals have their theory collapse in the first reading.
Hmmm... Guess this means the Navy will have to retrofit a lot of ships with .22 cal or pellets...Land-force artillery and tanks will also need a lot of modifications...
Really? I have shot thousand of rounds of .22, 9mm, .357 Mag, .45 Auto, .223 Remington, 12 gauge, and never killed anyone yet.
Then again, maybe Im a lousy shot. 😳
Yeah, there just a case near me where a guy shot two trespassers trying to break into his property.
His problem was he shot them both as they were running away, and they were quite a distance from his house.
He shot them both grave-yard dead with a 22 LR rimfire, and only one of them was head shot!
Target practice I assume? The practice is so you’ll be good at shooting things to kill them. Again, the whole point of a gun is killing what you’re aiming at, not shredding paper.
The tacnuke of small arms isn’t 45. It’s 357 magnum. It’s beyond dispute.
7.62×39 is “large”?
Does that make my 7.62×51 light artillery?
.22 kills more ppl each yr than any other. And guess which caliber I keep pulling off parolees?
These ppl are dumb. It is like saying a semi-auto .308 is more lethal than a .22.... no mention of grains, distance, proficiency, etc. Apples and oranges.
Heasline.
Libs finally settle 45 vs 9mm debate. Next is PC vs Mac
I presume law enforcement didn't approve of his use of lethal force on someone fleeing while dozens of yards away.
HILARIOUS. Which movie?
What they are not getting traction on the AR-15 anymore so they switching tactics?
They are trying to hollow out the 2A. They dont eat. They dont sleep. They never stop. They will keep coming. Its what they do!
Nope, I think he got 7 years or something like that. The sad part was they had broke into several other homes that night before they got to the last one. They should have gave him a medal.
and bullets designed for the target you intend to use them on at the velocities created by the firearm you are shooting at the distance you will be engaging your target.
I know what my handguns and selected ammo will do in a biological mass of bone, flesh and packed body cavities. I hunt with my handguns/carry guns too.
I do quite a bit of pig hunting because I can do so on property we own. Dressing out a pig is pretty close to a post mortem.
This is perhaps the best among easily accessible studies to answer this question. I like the methodology, which is explained by the author, and it reads like someone looking for the truth rather than to further an agenda.
The bottom line: Size almost doesn't matter, except don't get hit by any rifle or shotgun!
These people are idiots! They have .357 magnum listed as a large caliber, but a .38 Special as a medium caliber. They are the same damn caliber (i.e., .357!).
What are they doing throwing a rifle caliber (the 7.62 x 39) in with what are typically handgun calibers? The only exception would be the .22LR, which is used in both rifles and handguns.
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