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I don't particularly like the taste of fluffy bunny but I have no problems with other people killing and eating them HOWEVER I do have an issue with the proliferation of the 9mm and the ill educated morons that glorify it in rhyme ...
The 9mm round has come to the fore purely due to it's increased use by the military and the US Forces in particular. Before the Yanks adopted the Beretta 92F as the standard issue sidearm they used the Colt 1911A1 in 45acp (The Colt is arguably John Moses Browning's finest creation)
The reasons for adopting the 9mm round are:
1. Greater magazine capacity
2. Increasing use of body armour
3. Commonality with the rest of NATO
The increased magazine capacity could be interpreted as giving greater fire power resulting in more dead enemy unfortunately this is more than a little flawed.
1. In general sidearms are only issued to officers
2. Officers tend to have much less range time than other ranks
3. By the time the enemy are in effective pistol range of an officer you're into hand to hand fighting
4. There are many documented cases of multiple 9mm hits failing to stop people
5. The 9mm is a high pressure round and far harder to shoot accurately than the 45
6. The high magazine capacity encourages 'spray and pray' rather than single aimed shots
7. The 45acp round has a much higher one shot kill rate than the 9mm and even non lethal wounds incapacitate
In summary our disaffected youth are using entirely the wrong weapon for their task - if they're obsessed with tupperware then the Glock is available chambered for 45acp as well as 10mm, 41AE and 40 S&W any one of which is far superior to the ubiquitous 9.
Here endeth todays lesson !
PS
I was bored
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