Patrick
2008-12-03 15:45:26
“I’d rather have a gun with stopping power than one with killing power, personally.”
There’s no distinction between stopping power and killing power. Neither term has much concrete meaning, but what little exists indicates that they mean the same thing.
“If someone’s trying to kill me, I’d rather stop him before he does so than inflict a wound that will kill him after I’m already dead myself.”
While that’s a rational approach to the problem, you have no reliable way of picking one outcome over the other. The vast majority of gunshot deaths, even including those from rifle or shotgun wounds, do not cause instantaneous death. Even a bullet to the heart or brain can allow your attacker to continue to function for several seconds.
