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Half-glass full take on the situation.Only 10,619 people died from cocaine in 2016. That's barely more than from car crashes that involved alcohol. Let's legalize cocaine.
Half-glass full take on the situation.Only 10,619 people died from cocaine in 2016. That's barely more than from car crashes that involved alcohol. Let's legalize cocaine.
Guns are very scary to you huh?Alcohol's kill rate is far, far lower. Out of all the people that ingest alcohol, how many end up killing someone?
Guns are batting much higher. Out of all the people that discharge a gun, many more end up killing someone.
Which is what you'd expect when you compare a substance to a killing machine.
Not really but....
Every day 28 people die in an alcohol-related car accident
https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
- In 2015, 10,265 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (29%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.
- 209 0 to 14 yr old were killed in 2015
- The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $44 billion
So due to alcohol 10,000 people a year die. There Is zero benefit to alcohol.
That's just traffic accidents.
In 2017 there were 15,549 people killed by guns in the United States in 2017.
https://www.thetrace.org/rounds/gun-deaths-increase-2017/
We'll look at that those numbers..Those are pretty comparable. I don't understand why we're not all talking about banning alcohol. what's the difference?
Legit question
A 2-3/4 slug has twice the stopping of a .223 at close range, so no. But I suppose if you live in an apartment, the rifle is safer since the slug will go through anything in it's path.
IMO stopping power is very far down the list on what makes a gun good for defensive use
consistent shots on target as fast as possible > stopping power
my best example is this video of a gentleman taking multiple 40 cal rounds to the chest and RUNNING out of the business
I agree that for accuracy, especially at 50+ yards a rifle is best but a 45 cal round simply cannot be compared to a 2-3/4 or 3in slug. It's like comparing getting punched with MMA gloves to getting punched with steel boxing gloves.
distance doenst matter when your follow up rounds end up in the ceiling because you are in a life or death situation and you need to fire your gun as fast as possible
with the same comparison, the time it takes for you to throw 3 punches with your steel gloves the person with MMA gloves would have thrown 15 or 20
so you better hope those 3 punches didnt end up in the ceiling
I think you fantasize about this way too much.