Stopping Power – JLF

by JLF , Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 19:57 (4056 days ago) @ Rob Leahy

95% of us have never been shot, but 99% of us have watched Movies and TV where people were shot. That makes our *only* frame of reference for being shot, movies and TV. So if you shoot 95% of us with a .22 short, we will say some ugly words, and then fall down, lie down, sit down, or maybe crash through a window if we're the dramatic type, or run away if we were up to no good. Regardless of our reaction, the *point* is that we will "stop" doing whatever we were doing before we were shot with a .22 short.

That leaves the eternal stopping-power debate concerned with only 5% of us, and rewards the piddly .22 short with a 95% success rate. Not bad!

JLF