what_mustache t1_jef2sym wrote
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Emergency room doctors with firsthand knowledge of treating gun victims have said that the damage 223 ammo causes is far, far less treatable than what are 9mm causes. It's not that the gun is black, it's the high velocity ammunition it fires, large clips, etc. It's almost like the military knew what they were doing when they designed it.
states_obvioustruths t1_jefawyt wrote
It's almost like one is a rifle round being fired from an 18" barrel and another is a pistol round being fired from a 5" barrel.
I feel like trauma surgeons also find that people hit by semis going 60 mph are harder to treat than people hit by sedans going 25 mph.
what_mustache t1_jegyvq5 wrote
Yeah, weird that higher velocity rounds hurt more.
But naw, all guns are the same.
MinotaurGod t1_jefgkyw wrote
9mm is not the only caliber of pistol round. There are pistol calibers out there that have as much energy as a .223. It also doesnt say anything about ammo type. FMJ? Hollow-point? You mention large mags... it takes an unskilled, uncoordinated person maybe 2 seconds to swap a mag. Lets take the Nashville shooting as an example. The cops did an absolutely fanfuckingtastic job of getting in and taking the idiot out, but it still took them 12 minutes to arrive. Thats 720 seconds. Do you really think 30 seconds for 15 mag swaps will make a difference? If nobody is fighting back, and they have all the time in the world, the amount of ammo they can carry in a single magazine is meaningless.
Guns in war have not evolved to kill large amounts of people. Thats what we have bombs and missles for. They've evolved to protect the person wielding it. The higher the velocity, the further away you can be from your enemy. The more rounds in the magazine, the more you can spam towards the enemy in hopes of hitting them while not getting hit yourself, as you likely wont have time to take a steady shot.
what_mustache t1_jegz55e wrote
Lol. Bro, your word salad of excuses sing gonna change physics. Ek=½mv2. Note that velocity is squared, not mass.
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