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What's the guarantee you'll get a second shot?
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The same as it always has been, and the same as the guarantee that you'll get a first shot, or that the first shot will be enough.
None.
Though I think we are much better off defensively today than when the very fastest guys could get off a second shot in about 20 seconds.
Today's self defense handguns can fire a second shot as fast as you can pull the trigger. Faster than many can get back on target.
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well with pistols it would seem to be a moot point. from a long range perspective it's like white feather said "how many shots are you going to get?"
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Long range and legally valid personal self defense are seldom the same in the civilian world.
Studies are useful things, at least the ones that accurately report the data found, and yes, sometimes they do have unanticipated results. But when there is a result far enough outside the expected, one need to find out why. Skewed data?? some factor(s) present that were not present in other findings??
When a small caliber seems to out perform a larger one, in percentage of effectiveness, one needs to ask, why.