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Originally Posted by Ziggy2525
I've also seen the argument quite a bit about a .22 being lethal to the attacker, but not stopping the threat before the attacker kills you.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen this actually play out with civilian thugs in real life. They're looking for easy targets. They're not on suicide missions. You shoot a thug in the shoulder, sure he might continue the attack. You shoot the thug in the chest I don't think so.
For me, the biggest issue with .22 is reliability, not stopping power.
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.22LR is definitely better for SD than NOTHING. The original post is already 3 years old and few new pistols arrived - MP9 EZ would be the perfect alternative for manageable MP22.
Anyway, even still using .22LR there is no doubt that it's so easy shooting caliber, that weak stopping power combined with precision and round amount per second will give expected results.
With new .22LR pistols (MP22C is a perfect example) there is no reliability problems anymore. I put thousands rounds without single malfunction. (CCI and Aquila ammo).