[rktman]

The nytimes and jama. Can't get more honest than that. Never mind the size of an axe, machete, knife, baseball bat, tire iron. fist, shoe size etc., etc., etc....... I really don't like these people.

[rktman]

Of course it could help in ammo selection to take care of those with criminal intent on your person.

[backwoods-engineer]

What a load of crap. I’m keeping my bullets, big and small, and the likes of the Noo Yawk Times ain’t got nothing to say about it.

[Deaf Smith]

Sabot rounds?

[Texas Eagle]

What the? Smaller bullets? You stupid son’sa
....oh, wait, I get it. April Fool’s!

[Lurker]

“Safer guns and safer bullets”. Jocelyn whatshername.

L

[Seaplaner]

5.56 is a .22.

Just sayin.

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[Wuli]

OMG!!! So the thug fires more bullets!!!

Now, that was hard to figure out wasn’t it?

[AlbertWang]

I am grateful for this article. I will quit packing my 22 and start carrying my 357 /s

Bigger bullets bleed better.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

As the old expression might of gone, “And how many of them fellers that got kilt needed killin’?”

5 years in Boston. There seems to be some dispute about the numbers.

Homicides reached a 10-year low in 2015. Why?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/03/homicide/3gjmGZfnkCfSmQ0VWSx50O/story.html

[SecondAmendment]

Without explicitly stating it, the Times is pusing for the U.S. to follow “global norms” for civilian firearms ownership by banning military calibers.

[Paladin2]

F=ma

[TigersEye]

Even more lives could be saved if bullets were made of cotton.

[lurk]

So, if you want a criminal to die, the .45 would appear to be the weapon of choice. The article ends up being a market endorsement of the 1911.

[TheNext]

Gun Control Kills People

... Democrats kill people with Gun Control.

[VanShuyten]

From the JAMA article: "The findings are foundational to the debate over whether deadly weapons should be better regulated and provide evidence against the common view that whether the victim lives or dies is determined largely by the assailant’s intent and not the type of weapon." ....... "These 367 cases were divided into 3 groups by caliber: small (.22, .25, and .32), medium (.38, .380, and 9 mm), or large (.357 magnum, .40, .44 magnum, .45, 10 mm, and 7.62 × 39 mm)." (Of course, the .357 and the 9mm are almost the same, and the 7.62 is smaller.) ..... "he probability of death is connected to the intrinsic power and lethality of the weapon. That suggests that effective regulation of firearms could reduce the homicide rate. That conclusion is relevant to the national debate over gun regulation, although insufficient in itself to demonstrate that any particular regulation would satisfy a cost-benefit test." Looks like I should move up from my 9mm, although the study didn't address the differences between FMJ and JHP.

[Bogey78O]

The assertion that criminals go for big calibres is laughable.

They go for cheap and available. Typically 9mm. Shot placement is key.

This article is pseudoscience.

[hanamizu]

I actually took a quick look at the article. They show .38 Special as a “medium” caliber round and a .357 magnum as a “large” caliber round. Of course they are the same “caliber”, that’s why you can shoot .38s out of a .357 magnum revolver.

The fact that they don’t seem to understand this makes me wonder what else they don’t understand about firearms.

After all, the dreaded AR15 “assault rifle” shoots a tiny .22 caliber round and the article seems to imply that if people only used .22 (’small caliber’) rounds, why gun deaths would go down.

[Spok]

NYT and handgun ballistics? I think I’ll pass.

[Disambiguator]

Did they mention 12 gauge slugs? .72 caliber bullets, baby. Those can definitely ruin your day.

[Kickass Conservative]

New Law, all Swimming Pools can only be six inches deep.