People Kill People. But the Bullets Seem to Matter.

nytimes.com ^ | 3/27/2019 | MARGOT SANGER-KATZ and QUOCTRUNG BUI

[rktman]

In Boston from 2010 to 2015, there were 221 gun homicides.

Research suggests that one change could have lowered that number by 40 percent: smaller bullets.

A study last year, published in JAMA Network Open, examined the type of weapon used in every fatal and nonfatal shooting in the city. It found that — regardless of the time of day, the number of wounds or the circumstances of the crime — the size of the bullet affected which gunshot victims lived and which ones died.

[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!

[rktman]

:-) #metoo! LOL!

[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?

[dp0622]

ny slimes doesn’t represent all NYers

I’m sure wherever you live there is a leftist rag pumping out garbage.

I’ve seen too much out of Texas papers and other places lately to say most any state is excluded from having rags.

[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.

[TigersEye]

5.56 is a .22.

No Democrat or jornolist would have any idea what you're saying.
For them it would need to be dumbed down into kiddie speak.

IOWs "AR-15 bullets"

[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.

[Clutch Martin]

Firemen hate inadequately stored ammunition.

A great (great?) uncle (I never knew) was a caretaker at a church out in Nebraska back in the early part of the 20th century and he was doing lawn maintenance at this church, and was raking, and he struck a cartridge that was lying in the grass unnoticed. The cartridge fired and the bullet took his eye out and blinded him in that eye.

Talk about a freak accident...