common. I can stop you, without fail, with a kick to your solar plexus, but you will probably be ok in a few hours,or atmost, a day or two. I can stick you in the liver with an icepick,and you WILL die of it,but it may well take MANY minutes,even hours for you to pass out.
SO <font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font>, the LETHALITY of a given load is NOT really an issue. A .22 CB cap is "lethal", from a rifle barrel, up close, by the Military's standard of 60 ft lbs. A .177 pellet rifle is lethal, with a hit to the eyesocket. However, those loads are NOT stoppers of attacks,with just chest hits, and that IS what is desired, in a defensive gun. Whether or not the guy DIES is pretty much immaterial, as long as he stops. If he kills ormaims you or your loved ones, BEFORE he expires,and AFTER you shot him, it did NO good to shoot him. So,<font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font>,what we want is an INSTANT stop, not just "killing", seconds, minutes or hours after we shoot the sob.
SO <font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font>, the LETHALITY of a given load is NOT really an issue. A .22 CB cap is "lethal", from a rifle barrel, up close, by the Military's standard of 60 ft lbs. A .177 pellet rifle is lethal, with a hit to the eyesocket. However, those loads are NOT stoppers of attacks,with just chest hits, and that IS what is desired, in a defensive gun. Whether or not the guy DIES is pretty much immaterial, as long as he stops. If he kills ormaims you or your loved ones, BEFORE he expires,and AFTER you shot him, it did NO good to shoot him. So,<font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font>,what we want is an INSTANT stop, not just "killing", seconds, minutes or hours after we shoot the sob.