One of the pro-criminal, anti-liberty movement’s fondest conceits about guns is that “nobody needs more than <fill in a number> rounds of ammunition for self-defense”.<\/p>\n
These, of course, are people whose only background in self-defense is watching “Law And Order”, where firing one or two shots sends the perps flying head-over-heels backwards.<\/p>\n
In real life, of course, things are much foggier. The average cop fires seventeen rounds for every hit they score – which is great, if you’ve got 18 rounds and you’re only facing one perp. \u00a0And, movies notwithstanding, one shot doesn’t always take a perp down; with enough adrenaline, or drugs, perps have been known to kill the good guys even after they’ve been hit several times; it’s very rare for a shot to take someone down immediately – and adrenaline can carry someone up to the ragged edge of bleeding out.<\/p>\n
Of course, some perps rely on the force of numbers. \u00a0“Home Invasions” are a particularly scary form of robbery, where multiple people, usually armed, storm a house simultaneously. \u00a0It’s usually pretty safe – for the robbers. \u00a0 The shock and numbers usually cow the homeowner – or make resistance a short,, sharp, ugly thing. \u00a0Because when a homeowner only has six rounds, the only thing separating a living homeowner, a body on her kitchen floor and a couple of robbers high-tailing it across the lawn, and a dead \u00a0homeowner in a ransacked house, is blind luck.<\/p>\n
We’re written before about cases where civilians – including chidlren – have used the AR15 to defend themselves against violent home invasions.<\/p>\n