Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: How many bullets does one need for self defense? [View all]Glaug-Eldare
(1,089 posts)There's no telling in advance what the situation is going to be, and the Police Policy Studies Council has a study out indicating that police officers miss about 85% of the time. Let's take Joe Shmo protecting his house during an aggressive home robbery. Suppose he has a ten-round magazine. Unless his marksmanship is superior to the police (which it may or may not be), you can count eight of those as misses if he expends the entire magazine. So he's got two shots that will hit. Will that be enough? Depends where he hits, and how many attackers there are. Let's say two. One hit each might scare them off, but it might not. Maybe they'll want his gun badly enough to stick around. Maybe he's a worse shot than the police, and he can only score one hit. I'd rather have more gun food than I need.