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Originally Posted by Blackeagle
...but to say that there's no difference in terminal effect is laughable.
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I didn't say there is
no difference. Read more carefully.
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Originally Posted by Blackeagle
To stop a bad guy you do need to hit the right parts, but "common sense" indicates that some calibers are going to be more likely to hit those parts than others.
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The question which remains is "How much more likely?". The answer is that, despite all of the jello-testing, theorizing, rhetoric, and so forth, the difference in performance on living beings between service pistol cartridges isn't enough to write home about.
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Originally Posted by Blackeagle
I have tried very hard to stay out of this debate after initially answering Atua's question, but after this statement I find myself unable to resist.
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Incidentally, thank you for offhandedly categorizing me as part of the "debate", despite the fact that the point of my post is to establish that the "debate" itself is asinine.