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The vast majority of people lack this skill. For one of them to try to use a gun as merely a wounding or disabling device is foolhardy at best
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This is spot on. Anyone who hefts and aims a gun, better aim to kill because that is what guns are designed to do, and that is what will probably happen. The torso is the biggest target on the human body. Most shots to the torso will be fatal unless the victim is incredibly lucky. People who watch too much television where the hero is "wounded" in the shoulder live in a fantasy world. Forget TV It is ironic how so many Follywood producers are incredibly anti gun and 2nd Amendment, yet they show with such foolishness, the results of gun violence. No blood and very little real consequences of gun violence. Assholes.
A .38 or .45 caliber bullet will shatter a shoulder, particularly from relatively close range within 25 yards. Blow someone's shoulder off and they will probably bleed to death before help arrives. How do you put a tournequet on a shattered shoulder?
Point being, Rob is correct when he writes most people aren't skilled enough to shoot someone in the calf or bicep. So, shoot to kill, or don't shoot at all.