I have seen more than one village idiot kill themselves by cleaning a loaded 22lr
How is this relevant?
it is relevant because 22lr has less than a quarter of the energy as it's nearest centerfire competitor the 22 hornet. if Bubba can blow his own brains out with a 22lr then what do you think the likelihood of being able to stop BG from harming your family with a 22 hornet? pretty darn good if you ask me. I always love these discussions because you always end up with the following absolute truths:
1. every person that breaks into your home is going to be a 300 pound body building crack addict wearing kevlar.
2. the roughly half million combatants that have died while engaged in hostilities against the US since the adoption of the M16 have all been tragic cases of friendly fire apparently since the M16 is a horribly underpowered rifle, incapable of taking life.
3. the word "tactical" is used to describe everything from flipping on a lightswitch to changing your underwear.
4. some kid that is barely out of highschool and never seen live combat will rant about how our military is so poorly equipped and lament the "good ole days" where we had "man killer" guns instead of "man wounder" guns.
5. we will all agree that bacon is a delicious accompaniment to breakfast lunch and dinner.
6. thread will be reduced to name calling and bitter arguments(usually between 2 individuals) that will eventually cause this thread to be closed.
this year alone I have seen deer drop from horrible gut shots with so called under powered rounds and I have seen textbook kill shots with 300 magnums that got away. using healthy animals that have developed the ability to secrete large amounts of adrenaline at the slightest sign of trouble is not an acceptable analog to an unhealthy human specimen that has destroyed their body with drugs so I laugh at all the people that think that a drug addict rifling through your stuff is not going to drop if hit by a bullet of any size.