vikorr wrote:The Florida woman was only using a .22
I know;
( to that fact, u can add that more lightly calibrated guns can have larger magazines ).
However, the lighter calibers are less reliable
for getting the job done; note that after her gunfight,
she upgraded to a .38 revolver.
When I was 8, I won a .38 revolver in a poker game
with some other kids in my neighborhood. I still have it,
but some years thereafter, when I learned a bit more
about the relative merits of stopping power,
I upgraded to a .44 revolver and loaded it with hollowpointed slugs.
In my considered opinion, this represents optimal stopping power in a handgun.
( Superior ammunition appears just beyond the technological horizon of available firepower. )
As an acquaintance of mine put it,
the armorer of the Suffolk County, NY Police Dept.
:
" If I shoot someone [ which
he DID ] I don 't want him to die tommorow.
I need him to fall down dead
NOW. "
During the Phillipino Insurrection, around the turn of the 1900s,
American troops were being attacked at nite,
by doped up Moros. Thay emptied their .38 revolvers into the Moros,
who obliged by perishing from their wounds, but first thay did a job
on the American troops, with their machettes.
Some older veterans remembered the benefits of the old .45s that thay
had used in earlier years, and re-employed them to good effect
against the doped up Moros.
The same story happend in NY in the 1960s.
I read in the NY Daily News one day of some police who chased
a derelict into an alley. He turned around, broke a glass bottle
and charged at one of them, who emptied out his .38 revolver
into the charging derilect, who died from his wounds,
but first he jabbed his broken bottle into the officer 's neck,
to fatal effect.
The moral of the story is:
its
not enuf to KILL the bad guy;
u need to STOP HIM, and keep him OFF OF U.
Q.E.D.: your earthly life may depend on that.
David
Are they all 38's?
