Well we've all heard how a .357 magnum will penetrate an engine block. One time a guy I know, (whom I try to avoid,) was telling me about an instance where the police somewhere shot and killed a motorist because said person drove at high speed through some unauthorized area. He tells me that back in the day, when he went through rookie school with the Dalton, Georgia, police department, that they all took turns shooting at moving cars with their .357 magnum pistols, instantly bringing them to a stop. Right, like a department would have enough spare cars for everyone in the class to shoot one up. Then he wants to know why the police don't ditch their .40 calibers for .357 magnums, for just such instances, to save on bloodshed, when they could have just shot the car in the engine, at high speed mind you, and brought it to a stop, and peaceably arresting the driver.
After enduring all of this nonsense, all I could think of to respond with was, "Why shoot a perfectly good car and ruin it, when you can just take out the driver instead?"
