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I'm comfortable with a 5 shot S&W Airweight in 38 special most days. With 5 extra on a bianchi shell holder.
carry what you want and don’t worry about what other people carry or say you should carry….
Your life is the one on the line, and you are the one that has to carry every bullet.
I was a medic in the Army and believe me, people don't get "blown back" like Hollywood movies when they are shot and will keep shooting until they realize they were shot and/or see blood ... Add influence of drugs/sleep deprivation/adrenaline/suicidal and homocidal tendencies and it won't matter that they were shot and bleeding.
These are "real world, real life" videos of actual shootings and how different people react to being shot ... some attackers don't care they are shot and will keep attacking - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/is-six-still-enough-for-defense.912223/#post-12455078
And some care and go "crap, I got shot" and run/fall - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/is-six-still-enough-for-defense.912223/#post-12455090
Mental and emotional responses are powerful in influencing whether attackers stop attacking but usually being shot evokes fight or flight response that triggers release of hormones that can hyper-enhance human body functions until blood pressure drop causes body to slow down ... which is an eternity in a gun fight.
Keep in mind the mentality of attackers in 2022 as what we were taught in the 60s-70s may no longer be applicable in 2022.
This is what older generations saw growing up to think/believe 6 rounds of .357 Mag will do. And how many attackers and robbers now in their 60s and 70s are going to shoot you? Not many
And this is what current generations saw growing up to think/believe about shooting ... Yes, you can get shot and still move around and shoot back ... until you bleed out and can't move ... And this is the reality we must factor when considering how to arm ourselves against threats in 2022.
I was a medic in the Army and believe me, people don't get "blown back" like Hollywood movies when they are shot and will keep shooting until they realize they were shot and/or see blood ... Add influence of drugs/sleep deprivation/adrenaline/suicidal and homocidal tendencies and it won't matter that they were shot and bleeding.
These are "real world, real life" videos of actual shootings and how different people react to being shot ... some attackers don't care they are shot and will keep attacking - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/is-six-still-enough-for-defense.912223/#post-12455078
You obviously havent watched Monty Python.I don't care how hopped up an individual is, when they lose an arm, leg, or head, it takes all the fight out of them.
Firearms put bladed weapons on the ash heap of history, but bladed weapons were extremely lethal in the right hands.
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I don't care how hopped up an individual is, when they lose an arm, leg, or head, it takes all the fight out of them.
When Doug stabs one of these ballistic dummies in the torso, I see an immediate and massive drain of blood to fill the body cavity. I am sure the blood loss is faster and greater than the damage that any hand gun bullet can do.
Firearms won the distance battle for sure.
The big questions I had from those videos regarded choices of weapons and tactics. Throughout the bodycam videos it appears that everything happened right near the limits of any reasonable handgun effectiveness. Were there no long guns available? Would a little extra time to get a long gun out of a trunk made a difference?My city. A criminal with a Glock switch and plenty of extra magazines against cops.
God help me if I'm confronted with that.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/houston-police-footage-shootout-twounded-officers
The problem with this is it has little – if anything – to do with the capacity of a handgun.bangers doing a spray and pray shooting…Psycho mental people doing mass shootings.
The better question, is why limit yourself to six, when you could have 10 or more?
And that's something to test oneself with.
I know people aren't talking about pocket shooters in this thread, but my last trip to the range shooting my Ruger LCP Max 10+1 vs. my lowly DAO Charter Arms .32 mag 6-shot proved an embarrassing point to myself.
I went into that range session thinking the Max would be king as it certainly had the capacity advantage. I mean, that's why I bought the Max, to supplant other lower capacity pocket guns I have.
The result was that I could put 6 on target with the DAO Charter Arms effortlessly where the Max was so much harder to hit with. Effectively, the Max was a 6 shooter as well due to 5 shots going stray from the intended POA . . . repeatedly. Not off paper, just not able to stay on a scaled down head shot consistently at 10 yards.
I'm not getting rid of the Max because I think I can practice my way through the issues this gun presents to me. But only time will tell for sure.