Yes really.Really? You DO know that Bella Twin killed a grizzly bear with proper placement with a single shot .22 rifle, right? That certain pro killers used .22 LR as their signature weapon?
gunpolicy.org/documents/5561-22-calibre-rabbit-rifles-kill-more-people-than-any-other/file
We are talking about SD handguns here not rifles. If I could walk up behind a person and put the barrel of a gun inches away from their head and pull the trigger. Yep, the tiny bullet normally will bounce around inside the skull and kill. The question is why it was used, it was used for the low sound level not because it's the best killing caliber. Many slaughterhouse animals have been killed by a .22lr into the brain.
I investigated a death of a person from a pellet rifle another from a butter knife. That does not prove those are good choices to carry and use to defend yourself. But if YOU want to carry a butter knife, have at it. There are far too many better choices in calibers and actual handguns on the market that are lightyears ahead of the .22lr in any bullet form or firearm to serve that purpose. Spend a few minutes reading the study and tests the FBI went through about handgun calibers and bullets. The FBI does make many errors in daily job performance but their firearms tests and studies are real in depth and for instance use hundreds if not thousands of cases to see patterns of what works and what doesn't. The report I am speaking of used years of ER data from the US on gunshot victims. Then moved into the test labs.
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