Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:25:03 -0800, John Schilling
<schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:07:02 -0500, mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:


>>There is reason to doubt whether the "assassin" actually killed Long,
>>since his bodyguards cut loose with .45s and appear to have hit him at
>>least once or tweic; as i remarked above, Weiss had something like a
>>.32 revolver, a weapon slightly more dealy than a .25 calibre beadroom
>>gun.
>
>Which you may note is .03 calibers greater than one of the more common,
>and successful, assassination weapons.

So? The .25 cartidge and most of the guns that fire it is ****;
sometimes it's doing good to penetrate a heavy coat, and that at
relatively close range.

A friend of mine when i was in Sicily in the Navy was shot three times
in the legs with a .25, and, until he saw blood on his pant leg,
thought he'd been shot with a BB gun.

And the .22 round used for assassination is rather more powerful, to
say the least, than a .25; a .22 short isn't much for killing people
either.
>
>
>>Between .45s and a .32, i know which i'd pick as probable cause of
>>death.
>
>Well, yeah.  Whichever one was aimed by an assassin, rather than hit by
>dumb luck.

No gun fired that day was apparently particularly well-aimed.
>
>The lethality of pistol bullets, or more commonly the lack thereof, has
>*far* more to do with where the bullet hits, than with how big a bullet
>it is.  

Two or three .45 rounds in the body are going to be more lethal than a
similar number of .32 rounds in equivalent locations.