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Terminal Ballistics and the Problem With Anecdotes...

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JTH:
This is the third in a multi-part series about guns choices, ammo choices, and self-defense.    I'd like to the first two---but unfortunately, their website got hacked a little while ago, and they are slowly getting all their old posts back online.

Slowly.

If I can find the older posts, I'll link them as a reply.  For now, though, he's got some good (and important, IMO) things to say about self-defense firearm choices.

http://www.gunnuts.net/2013/02/21/lets-talk-terminal-ballistics-the-confusion-of-anecdotal-data/

One comment I especially liked:
"An instructor I trained with summed up the problem of stopping a human being nicely with an analogy. The human body has one off switch and multiple timers. The off switch is the brain stem. Place a round there and it’s lights out. Place a bullet anywhere else and you’re playing a waiting game in terms of physiology."

abbafandr:
2 salient points to take away here. 

1)  Caliber doesn't matter if you can't hit what you need to.

2) Situational awareness can solve more problems than anything.  The best gun fight is one you avoid.

A-FIXER:
Good read.....

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