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“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot,” she said, laughing. “I probably should not have said that. My staff will deal with that later.”

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      2 个月前

      And the gun control single issue voters- at least a few.

      I don’t think most people realize just how un-hesitant a secret service on protection detail will be to shoot an unknown intruder.

      Like. That’s not a Harris thing. That’s just their job. Which is why the guy that saw a rifle more or less just started blasting. (Maybe not “just”… I assume they assessed range and stuff. A pistol at 200 yards is almost useless even if you do hit what you’re aiming at.)

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        There is this video where a guy shoots a target with a pistol from 200 yards, freehand, somehow(I timestamed it). It shows that 9mm carries a pretty good amount of penetration power at that range still, surprisingly.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          The keltec is not a pistol, it’s a rifle. I’m guessing he has a ten inch barrel? Which gives a lot more velocity for a given cartridge, unless you’re fairly under pressure to start with.

          He doesn’t show what a 9mm pistol can do at 200 yards of to balistics gel. Neither does he show the slugs hitting the target.

          Which, you can make pistols do a bit better- one simple way is to go to +p cartridges or going to heavier rounds.

          Do they carry enough energy to hurt? Sure.

          Are they effective? No.

          Also not shown is how many takes he took to make this video (and I’m guessing he took way more shots to get those hits than we see. Even if he is a perfect shooter, windage is variable, no one is a perfect shooter.)

          • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 个月前

            In the timestamp he is shooting a cz75 at 200 yards. It still penetrates a pretty thick slab of wood. I still wouldn’t want to be at the end of it. Plus, there are some rare freaks who can put some rounds on target at that range is all I was trying to add, really.

            Wasn’t trying to completely invalidate what you were saying by any means, just saying it isn’t so cut and dry is all. In most cases, what you said is true for sure.