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To: Magnum44

No we are talking the lethality of rifle v pistol in a close quarters situation. Both are totally lethal. That’s the point I made in my very first response. I never denied that a rifle is more powerful and leaves a wider wound channel. The AR-10 is even much more powerful than the AR-15 but wouldn’t necessarily be any more deadly in this situation. If the Virginia Tech shooter had an AR rather than 9mm I have no reason to believe his death toll would have been much different. And Ramone would also have said, when a man with a pistol meets the unarmed man, the unarmed man is a dead man.


132 posted on 03/23/2021 3:20:40 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

You may have been. I was not. I was pointing out that statistically, given medical attention, a pistol round is survivable 90% of the time unless it’s to the head. A rifle round is far more lethal by most of that 90%. This is borne out by the fact that there were no wounded survivors.

We will have more productive conversation when you don’t try to change change what the other person is saying. And I’ll just finish by saying that too many freepers spend an inordinate amount of energy on arguments of their own doing.


133 posted on 03/23/2021 3:36:43 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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