Reloadron
Contributing Member
I agree. When making decisions regarding personal defense or safety to include home defense I would like to think people make their decisions based on some fact.So, in your "What if" scenario did you stop to put on your hearing protection and safety glasses? I was responding to post #46. For what it is worth, I don't really think these types of threads are useful because of the lack of definition and the unrealistic pathways the discussion follows. Reread the first page and tell me this has been worthwhile. Then look at every time someone posts a logical answer to a query and gets shot down by someone who casts a completely different set of conditions on the question so they can appear to be the "expert." Thanks but no thanks.
Just looking at for example home invasion. If any shots at all the average defender will likely fire two shots, that's about it. The average distance these shots will travel is a few feet. This is what the numbers seem to bear out. Should that be true I hardly see a need for a 20 or 30 round magazine let alone a scope or for that matter even sights.
Here's my analysis of what armed self-defense for the Private Citizen, not LEO, looks like. You decide what suits your needs best to solve this type of problem.
Private citizens reload in approximately 1/2 of one percent of shooting incidents (3/482).
If the defender fires any shots, most likely it will be 2 rounds.
The shooting distance in the vast majority of cases was slightly in excess of arm's length.
I suggest for those curious they read this article from The Thinking Gunfighter which seems to be informative and also factual. When making decisions we need good solid factual information and the ability to separate mythology from reality.
Just My Take....
Ron