The reason police unions and police firearms training units fought so hard for hollow point bullets back in the day was that they wanted their cops to survive gunfights with violent criminals.\u00a0 Simply put, expanding bullets stop the bad guys faster.<\/p>\n
The history of law enforcement shows it, incontrovertibly.\u00a0 I was a young puppy when I learned of the case in which an NYPD officer emptied his six-shot .38 into a man charging him with a knife. The 158 grain round-nose lead .38 Special bullets just punched ice-pick wounds in one side of the criminal and out the other, and he was still able to stab the officer in the center of the chest. They died together on the street. Then I remember a friend of mine, a mid-Western policeman, who had to use a similar .38 Special revolver against a man trying to murder him: a single hollow point bullet in the center of the chest dropped the attacker in his tracks.\u00a0 My friend, all these years later, is still alive.<\/p>\n
That was the history of the old \u201cball ammo\u201d versus today\u2019s hollow points.\u00a0 It runs true across the range of calibers in handguns, and even up into rifles.\u00a0 Why do hunters use expanding bullets on soft-skinned big game?\u00a0 Same reason: it drops them faster.\u00a0 Mammals are mammals, two-legged or four.\u00a0 Yes, some of both kinds of critters soak up a lot of bullets before they go down. As a rule, it takes fewer hollow points than it does \u201cball\u201d rounds. This is why, from the Los Angeles Police Protective League to the Patrolmen\u2019s Benevolent Association in NYC, police representative organizations shouted long and loud for more effective ammo for their members. Once the hollow points were on the streets and the results were in, those cries died down.<\/p>\n
Why is a citizen, security guard, or cop ever allowed to shoot a human being at all? Because that human being is doing something so terrible that the laws of Society and Man and God together have approved shooting him as justifiable homicide, to save the innocent from the man who has to be shot.\u00a0 The sooner he falls, the sooner he stops shooting or stabbing innocent people; \u00a0the sooner his savagery ends, the better it is for all the innocent people concerned.<\/p>\n
Wasn\u2019t it Napoleon who supposedly said that God fought on the side that had the best artillery? If you\u2019re on the righteous side, you want the best artillery\u2026and, history shows, with small arms from pistols to rifles, the best artillery is a bullet that does more than punch a narrow, puckered ice-pick wound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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