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Originally Posted by wrkerr
I carried a badge for many years in the little city of El Segundo, CA. In 1957 we had two officers make a routine traffic stop. All was code 4. One was seated in the passenger seat, the other leaning over the hood writing the citation. The violator pulled a handgun and shot and killed both of them.
What did he use? .22 SHORTS !!!!!!
That's all I'm saying. Don't care to enter a pi**ing contest. Draw your own conclusions.
(The killer was finally arrested and convicted in 2003.)
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Yep a 22lr is very effective assassination round fired into the head at unsuspecting targets. You really think that under duress of an attack the generally unskilled/untrained victim is going to coolly place their shots into the bad guys head?? Then when the rim frie round fails to fire, quite common, they will coolly tap/rack & fire again??? Poor reliability alone is reason enough to never choose a rimfire for anything but squirrels & rabbits.