Amen, gwalchmai. Shot placement, shot placement, shot placement. I've worked on cases where super-duper hollow points failed to stop people when they didn't hit in the right place, and I've worked on many DRT cases where FMJ bullets hit the X. There's no magic bullet. One thing hollow points can do is minimize penetration by applying the brakes - which is a great thing with a 9x19 or a .45 on a human assailant - and may be a terrible thing with a .380. Pick your poison and take your chances according to your assessment of your situation, but when folks start blanket-dismissing others' choices for the others' own situations (particularly when they do so by merely echoing things that they've read and parroted without experience in the field), they demonstrate themselves to be uninformed.