I want to add one final comment about a logic flaw of the OP. He stated that...
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To put it bluntly, putting as many holes in the center mass of an assailant is the BEST WAY to stop a threat.
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While putting many holes center mass might work well against a person without a ballistic vest, the problem here is that it assumes that you will necessarily have the time, marksmanship, target cooperation, functioning gun, etc. to put a lot of holes COM. Unfortunately for many reasons, defenders don't always have the opportunity to do this and often not more than an opportunity for more than one or two shots. For this reason, I assume that that first shot is going to be the most critical and potentially the only opportunity. If you get more shots, then that is fortunate, but like the Hispanic drug house defender in Miami going against the cops, a shot to the chest and leg was the only opportunity afforded for a consider amount of time during the fight until one cop made a longer range precision shot that caught the suspect in the head (going back to MLeake's comment about needing to "thread a shot" between things, in this case, between the "v" of branches of a tree being used for cover). See...
http://thefiringline.com/forums/show...light=raid+car
Unlike the OP's overly gracious target, you don't always get the benefit of stationary, passive, non-fighting targets to defend against that are standing out in the open, full-on frontal views. You might get that shot, or you might get anything but that shot, but you won't likely get many opportunities at that shot.