Posted on 01/01/2013 2:44:05 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably had a conversation with someone in the last few days who asked, “Why do ordinary law-abiding people need those semiautomatic firearms with magazines that can hold more than ten cartridges?” There are lots of sound answers.
For one thing, defensive firearms are meant to be “equalizers,” force multipliers that can allow one good person to defend against multiple evil people. To allow one good person to defend against a single evil person so much stronger and/or bigger and/or more violent than he or she, that the attacker’s potentially lethal assault can be stopped. History shows that it often takes many gunshots to stop even a single determined aggressor. Most police officers have seen the famous autopsy photo in the cops-only text book “Street Survival” of the armed robber who soaked up 33 police 9mm bullets before he stopped trying to kill the officers. Consider Lance Thomas, the Los Angeles area watch shop owner who was in many shootouts with multiple gang bangers who tried to rob and murder him. He shot several of them, and discovered that it took so many hits to stop them that he placed multiple loaded handguns every few feet along his workbench. That’s not possible in a home, or when lawfully carrying concealed on the street: a semiautomatic pistol with a substantial cartridge capacity makes much more sense for that defensive application.
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45 auto. Because shooting them more then once is just silly
Actually I have. She told me she didn’t feel like arguing and to drop the subject.
She is also a fake Jew who does the Jewish Holidays and MUST take off for them, out of “tradition”, but yet does not believe in God.
And yes, I took on that subject as well. We ended it with me telling her an agnostic is just an atheist w/out b@lls.
Tyranny of the Government.
You can’t always trust them, and I don’t trust them at all.
Good people need them as long as there are bad governments and bad people.
If you do get a high capacity weapon or a higher capacity magazine, make sure you get a reliable one that does not jam.
The biggest thief of my property is an abusive and bullying monster led by the Kenyan vulture.
The biggest thief of my property is an abusive and bullying monster led by the Kenyan vulture.
.44 Magnum, because there’s no point in having a tidy house with no large splatters of blood on the upholstery and rugs, if you’re not alive to enjoy it.
Because they don’t make a .46!
What do you call a .500 S&W?
There comes a point of diminishing returns, when recovering from recoil means that a smaller caliber (.45 or 9mm) a better choice. That, or keeping a shotgun handy.
Keltec PMR 30, .22 magnum. No recoil, loud as heck and holds 30 rounds. Any attacker will give up after getting hit with the first 20 rounds.
There is a reason why the military only uses 30 round mags. For anything larger that that they use belt fed ammo. I have seen a civilian AR with a belt fed adapter and a belt in the local gun store. Not full auto though.
“When the people fear government there is Tyranny. When the government fears the people there is Liberty’’.— Jefferson.
Of course, when speaking about the use of firearms, Mr Ayoob doesn’t have nearly the credentials of Feinstein or Chucky Schumer, or Obama! LOL
Extended magazines make lousy tripod braces...
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