If you need more than a couple of rounds in a typical self defense scenario, you need to spend more time learning to shoot. Or get a shotgun.
True on some levels but its more complicated than that. Various analysis of gun fights have found that
three to five shots with the average being
3.59. When someone does fire most likely they will not hit their target with a Rand Institute study finding that the NYPD officers only
hit their target 18% of the time in an active gun battle. While people rag on the the NYPD
triggers, studies done on the LAPD found that their overall hit
rate was about 33.4% regardless if shots were fired at them or not. So what happens when parties are engaged in a gun battle? Barring police officers, most just
get the fuck out of the area at the mere sight of a gun. Nearly all criminals are looking for easy targets not to get into a gun battle to the death for their next momentary high.
Now, what if someone does get hit? The human body can still keep functioning even if you are hit in the heart. People have brought up deer earlier in this thread but let me
extrapolate on that:
To further corroborate his conjecture, MacPherson brought up an animal example. Assumedly because they don't understand what it means to be shot, deer hit through the heart often continue running for up to fifty yards, only collapsing when blood loss renders them unconscious.
So non-human animals, can still run a fair distance before collapsing. So what about humans, for that let me go back to the previous
source:
Further substantiation for MacPherson's reasoning comes from a couple of fascinating historical anecdotes. In the early twentieth century, expeditionary American troops were fighting against Moro tribesmen in the Philippines and against the Boxers in China. In battle, they were flabbergasted to find that their .38 caliber rifles and handguns could scarcely stop the charging enemy. Often, as many as four hits were necessary to bring a combatant to the ground. It's likely that naiveté about the damaging effects of guns, coupled with battle-fueled adrenaline, rendered the Moros and the Boxers disconcertingly impervious to bullets.
So we see here that this a combination of ones psychological beliefs and bodily anatomy. When a person has one or the other but not both they will usually collapse due to psychological trauma of getting shot. Such this mindset is important, if you are ever engaged in a gun battle. One must have the psychological fortitude of
I WILL KEEP FIGHTING this not only keeps you from being coup de graced by the aggressor but will surprise the attacker.
An
example caught on video is the death of Trooper Mark Coates:
Corporal Mark Coates was shot and killed after stopping a car for weaving in traffic on I-95 near the Georgia border.
During the traffic stop the subject began to struggle with Corporal Coates and they both fell to the ground. The man fired a .22 caliber handgun into Corporal Coates' chest, but the round was stopped by his vest.
Corporal Coates was able to force the man off of him and return fire, striking the him five times in the chest with his .357 caliber revolver. As he retreated for cover and to radio for backup, the man fired another shot. The round struck Trooper Coates in the left armpit and traveled into his heart.
The man survived the incident and was sentenced to life in prison.
Spending a few hours to get what you need for conceal carry is worth it. I know CA is extra special with guns, but if you can spell your name and not be a felon, a test isn't really much standing in your way.
Getting a CCW depends on what county you live in. In some of the most population dense, getting a CCW is next to impossible due to goddamned democrats and their belief that you need to be reliant on the state.