Remember, they aren’t coming for our guns. Or so they keep telling us
One way to reduce gun deaths: restrict big bullets and guns
The bigger the gun, the deadlier it is. Or, rather, the bullet.
The Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham on Friday highlighted a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open that found larger-caliber firearms are much likelier to kill a shooting victim than smaller-caliber ones. Caliber measures the internal diameter of the barrel of the gun, or how wide the bullet is.
Analyzing data on hundreds of shootings in Boston between 2010 and 2014, researchers Anthony Braga of Northeastern University and Philip Cook of Duke University discovered that on a bullet-by-bullet basis, shootings with larger-caliber guns were deadlier than smaller-caliber handguns, but they’re not more accurate. Shootings with a medium-caliber weapon were 2.3 times likelier to result in death than with a small-caliber gun; large-caliber guns increased the odds of death by 4.5 times compared to small-caliber guns.
Well, um, yeah. That’s kinda the way it works. I openly carry my Walther P22, which is a .22LR caliber weapons, as a deterrent, not necessarily to kill an attacker. I don’t want to have to pull the trigger. Having a gun pointed at your face will make most people stop. If you break in my home, I’m pulling the 9mm, though.
This is what they consider to be sizes
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— Barry Ritholtz (@Ritholtz) July 28, 2018
Notice anything missing? Where’s the .223/5.56 ammo, which is the predominant caliber in all those scary “assault rifles” like the Frightening AR-15? It’s almost like they left it out on purpose. It would most likely be classified as a medium caliber, or at least around the low end on large caliber
“Whether a victim of a serious assault lives or dies is to a large extent a matter of chance, rather than a question of the assailant’s intent,†Braga and Cook write. “The probability of death is connected to the intrinsic power and lethality of the weapon. That suggests that effective regulation of firearms could reduce the homicide rate.â€
In other words, having fewer big guns on the streets could make gun violence in America less deadly.
In other words, they want to grab the larger caliber weapons and bullets from the law abiding citizens, who use them to protect themselves and their families from criminals. I have to wonder, would these gun grabbers also restrict ownership from law enforcement, which has embraced the .40 and 10mm calibers? They’re guns are lost and stolen, as well.
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