How Many Rounds Do you CC?

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7-15 depending on which EDC is on me. No extra mags because I don't want to carry them around. And in a self defense scenario on the street if one mag don't get it done, more won't help. I imagine that if I need extra mags I'm in a "hero situation" where I'm trying to stop a robbery with multiple targets, or something like that. I don't have any need to be a hero. Just to go home every night.
 
I suppose if you live in a fairy isolated, low crime area the point of how many reloads is moot.

On the other hand in ten minutes or less I can go from my fairly affluent, low crime area to some of the worst you'll find in my state.

Just drive from one "nice" area to another Often requires passing through sketchy areas.

If I should ever need a firearm again I can't predict how many shots will be fired. So I carry additional ammunition. And while ever handgun I carry has a proven track record of reliability, Murphy is always present so I usually carry backup.
 
the best one can hope for is to practice and practice and when that awful time comes your training helps out.... I know just in shooting a lot I can be dead on accurate most of the time and then all of a sudden the damn bullets get a mind of their own and start going way off.
 
I would like to see solid, verifiable statistics of details concerning self-defense shootings.

How many per year?
Day of week?
Daylight or darkness?
Weather?
Location . . .rural, urban, "hood", etc?
Age, race and gender of all involved?
Number of assailants?
Assailants' weapons?
Number of assailants shot . . . wounded or killed?
Bystanders shot . . . by either party . . . wounded or killed?
Number of shots fired?
Hits/misses?
Defensive weapon(s) employed?
Reloads employed?
Law enforcement involvement?
Legal aftermath, charges filed, final results?
Other considerations?

IMHO, knowing all these situational details would assist one in determining his/her position on firearms as a defensive tool.
 
I would like to see solid, verifiable statistics of details concerning self-defense shootings.

How many per year?
Day of week?
Daylight or darkness?
Weather?
Location . . .rural, urban, "hood", etc?
Age, race and gender of all involved?
Number of assailants?
Assailants' weapons?
Number of assailants shot . . . wounded or killed?
Bystanders shot . . . by either party . . . wounded or killed?
Number of shots fired?
Hits/misses?
Defensive weapon(s) employed?
Reloads employed?
Law enforcement involvement?
Legal aftermath, charges filed, final results?
Other considerations?

IMHO, knowing all these situational details would assist one in determining his/her position on firearms as a defensive tool.
I don't know of anywhere there is a detailed analysis of such statistics. If there were it would probably diminish many debates on gun forums.
 
I don't know of anywhere there is a detailed analysis of such statistics. If there were it would probably diminish many debates on gun forums.


If nothing else I believe it would allow realistic consideration of certain fallacies prevalent today. Might even keep some politicians closer to honest . . . maybe. ;)
 
A lot of the defense lawyer's job is to sway the jury's minds into their way of believing or thinking their client is not guilty, right? Not much different than a used car salesman. Some of those car salesmen can sell a pile of crap when they know it is a pile of crap into the best car ever.
And a prosecutor's job is to convict, evidence be damned.
 
So true but then where were the 'facts' from is another thing. If you are accessing 'facts' from Baltimore City I am sure they will tell a different story than from somewhere in the cornfields of Iowa.

Yep. That's why you read all the reports you can find to help sort out the truth from the crap. Believing the "I heard/read it somewhere . . ." reporting is worse than worthless. ;)
 
I would like to see solid, verifiable statistics of details concerning self-defense shootings.

How many per year?
Day of week?
Daylight or darkness?
Weather?
Location . . .rural, urban, "hood", etc?
Age, race and gender of all involved?
Number of assailants?
Assailants' weapons?
Number of assailants shot . . . wounded or killed?
Bystanders shot . . . by either party . . . wounded or killed?
Number of shots fired?
Hits/misses?
Defensive weapon(s) employed?
Reloads employed?
Law enforcement involvement?
Legal aftermath, charges filed, final results?
Other considerations?

IMHO, knowing all these situational details would assist one in determining his/her position on firearms as a defensive tool.
Does the assailant have a good relationship with the Police or town officials?
 
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