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   On 07/02/2024 18:03, TimS wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Friend Scott overlooks that with a knife, there is some chance of running   
   away   
   > from the situation. Rather less so if Chummy can plug you with his handgun   
   > from a distance.   
   >   
   It is extremely difficult to 'plug someone from a distance' with a handgun.   
      
   Even I, who have never fired one, know that. That's why we have rifles,   
   which I have fired.   
      
   In fact many fatalities are from handguns rounds that hit entirely the   
   wrong person altogether, by sheer chance.   
      
   There was a story I saw re-enacted on TV, where a friendly barbecue was   
   having fun shooting at water melons on poles. Then the wife was invited   
   to 'have a go'. Being short, she had to shoot *upwards*, and the round   
   travelled several blocks and killed someone in their garden.   
      
   She could never have done that by aiming at them.   
      
   I think the effective accurate range of a handgun is probably little   
   more than 5 meters, and in the hands of the average person, not even that.   
      
      
      
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