Re: .380 vs. 9mm --same stopping power?

Jerry wrote:
# Peter McMullen wrote:
#
# -snip-
#
# # Lay on your back and have someone drop a 16 pound bowling
# # ball on your solar plexus from a height of say 10 feet. How
# # severe a bruise did it leave? How many bones did it break?
# # Are you still even breathing? Now take an 18" square piece
# # of 1.5" plywood and lay it on your chest. Drop the bowling
# # ball again.
#
# I'm going to pass on this as it doesn't sound like much fun and
# besides since the plywood is a non flexible media that would disperse
# the energy of the bowling ball outward away from the body it is not a
# good example.

What? You mean that a vest is some kind of energy mirror or StarTrek energy
shield? Wow, why has noone written about this 23rd century technology yet?
Mark



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