Let's compare a pistol to......a rock..
Under stress, the average male can throw a rock at about 100 feet per second -- or a little over 60 miles an hour. Men seem to instinctively pick up rocks to throw that weigh about a pound. There are about 5,000 foot pounds of energy in that thrown rock. A pistol bullet weighs about 1/100th of a pound. A pistol "throws" that tiny "rock" ten times as fast as a human can throw a big rock or at about 1,000 feet per second. How much energy is there in that pistol shot? About 5,000 foot pounds -- which is the same energy as there was in that big rock.
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A pistol with 5,000 ft-lbs of energy? Maybe a .50 cal BMG.
BULL$HIT ! ! ! DEEP BULL$HIT, TOO ! ! ! !
A pistol with 5,000 foot pounds of energy is BULL$hit. Check the ballistics charts.
While I agree that a thrown rock can be deadly, I feel that a simple fact check would have avoided such a ballistics error.