I was reading a post in another thread in which an exchange took place that surprised me and got me thinking at the same time. Below is the exchange.
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posted by Axion.........In my opinion the main reason why you should use hollow points is not increases effectiveness (yes that's nice) but decreased risk of over penetration and hitting a bystander. If one shot doesn't do the job you can always shoot more, but if one shot over penetrates and hits an innocent person you can never take that back.
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This was followed by this
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posted by Stage2........Fair enough, though I don't know that over penetration is so much an issue with .45. Even if it is, if there is a situation where I need to/am justified in pulling my weapon and killing someone, I'm not going to be thinking about anything other than stopping the threat, and if justified there isn't a jury in the land thats going to convict me for any bystanders hit.
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Initially I was shocked by the sheer dis concern Stage exhibited for his fellow innocent citizens then I asked myself, am I any better. If faced with a deadly threat about to kill me would I return fire despite the risk to bystanders? For me the answer is yes also. I would and do make every effort to reduce the threat as much as possible however I would shoot a direct deadly threat.
My question is would you shoot a direct threat to your life if a miss might injure or kill a bystander?