[Paine in the Neck]

What is with this sudden love of shotguns on the left? 12ga is much more likely to penetrate interior walls and harm innocents than is 5.56/.223

[Sender]

It’s all part of their incremental approach to getting rid of guns. They don’t really care which is safer or more effective. They just focus on what they perceive as the most dangerous (to tyrants) of weapons, currently modern rifles, and tell us, “See, you can still have your shotguns”. Next would be handguns, as they already know that most gang killings are with handguns. Then they will say it again, “You can still keep your shotguns!”. Even if they could somehow get rid of every weapon but shotguns, then guess what...there would be killings with shotguns, and that would be the end.

[piytar]

My understanding is that a 12 ga with 00 buck is less likely to over penetrate that a 5.56 round, depending on which 5.56 round you use. See discussions here and here.

[piytar]

Oh man, I read that wrong. 00 buck is in fact more likely to over penetrate in some cases. Sigh.

Incidentally, I agree that this is neither here nor there with respect to the larger argument: It’s none of this hag’s business to make MY home defense choices for US.