This is unfortunately very true. Even cops only hit their targets 15% of the time under stress (remember all the civvies shot by the NYPD last year?).
Even the military takes hundreds even thousands of rounds per kill, but that's somewhat different, with crew served weapons and so on. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com>wrote: > > In my experience, gun ownership <> marksmanship. > > I would maybe put it more like 15%. > > =) > > > > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > "Increase, yes. To 23 percent. But what percentage of men own guns? (I > > would bet it is near 50%). so a clear majority of gun owners are still > men, > > yes?" > > > > Probably right on the percentages. Twenty-three percent is not > > insignificant though. That's 23 out of every 100 who can pop a cap in > some > > dude's ass in the line of defense. Much better than 0 out of every 100. > > > > J > > > > - > > > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad > reputation. > > - Henry Kissinger > > > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362091 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
