Why we need that 30 rd magazine, why don't anti-gun types know this?

[Lestat De Lioncourt]

The classic .38 caliber revolver, with a capacity of six rounds, was the standard sidearm of the United States Army during the Moro insurrection in the Philippines. The Army found at least one dead Army officer with an empty sidearm, and his head split open by a machete or similar weapon. They also found the soldier's killer, who had finally bled to death. Six rounds of .38 were therefore not enough to convince even one determined attacker.
Police instructor Masaad Ayoob's The Truth About Self Protection adds an incident in which a female police officer saw a crazed gunman murder a woman, who then shot her as well before she could do anything. "She lay helpless as she watched a neighbor empty a .22 rifle into the killer; the neighbor then had to club the madman down with the empty rifle, again and again, before he succumbed."
Ayoob does not report the size of the .22's magazine, but the Moro insurrection exemplifies why even a 30-round rifle clip might not be enough to stop a crazed and determined attacker, such as one hopped up on a drug like PCP. "He had 32 Krag balls through him and was only stopped by the 33rd bullet -- a Colt .45 slug through both ears." The Krag-Jorgensen's 30-caliber cartridge was far more powerful than the .22 in Ayoob's example, but not sufficiently powerful to civilize this particular attacker even when fired in mass.
Colonel Jeff Cooper's To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth adds the case of a man who was prosecuted for shooting his attacker eight times with a .380 automatic pistol. The prosecutor admitted that the dead man had been the aggressor, but argued that the shooter had taken the law into his own hands by continuing to shoot an adversary who had "obviously" been disabled. Cooper, whom the defense called as an expert witness, cited a suicide in which "the deceased shot himself amidships four times with a .380 Webley. Presumably the first three hits did not convince him."


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[Chronos]

A single, well-placed .22 round will stop even the most determined attacker. I cannot say that for a .25 but the other calibers are sufficient.

[john a]

The problem is the only one that will use a 30 round clip is a crazy mass murderer. When do you need to use one? Zombies? War?

[Bob]

The reason we don't "know" this is that we weren't dropped on our heads a children like you apparently were. Do you realize that this makes absolutely no sense?

[ivxoxvi]

There is no such thing as "enough" when you are dealing with the unpredictability of a home break-in. You don't want to bet your life and the lives and safety of your family that you will take down one or more home intruders with one or two shots! Too many things can go wrong:

*There could be more than one or two intruders.
*You could trip and a round could be wasted in the ceiling.
*It could be dark and you might only clip a guy's leg.
*They could be armed themselves.
*They might spread out in different rooms faster than you anticipated.
*A round could misfire.
*A shot could be dampened or deflected by furniture in the way.

I'm sure there are even more ways a defense situation could go wrong.