Behind the Concealable Sized Gun: Downfall of a Stable Society
Posted by HCN on Saturday, February 5, 2022
About 30 years ago, assault weapons that could be used to perpetrate mass shootings started to receive big crackdowns, and the commonality of them on the streets for crimes eventually became obsolete. Many thank yous have gone out to reduce mass shootings.
However, the challenge that has emerged in the changeover, is many would be criminal shooters are turning to smaller guns, and with that come the pros and cons of these types of weapons. To a shooter, a pro might be a con to an innocent victim and society, cons, vice versa. Explaining, the downside of a small gun or firearm to an ill intended shooter and hence con, works to the advantage of society that wants gun violence mitigation; main among these is that the number of victims during discharges of the firearm are reduced (often correlated to the reduced number of bullets that can fit in the gun), the lethality level of the firearm such caliber, often is not as strong, and the power of a shot is not felt as much when the bullet strikes a person from far off. This is not to say that a stray bullet from a small gun will do nothing beyond a quarter a mile, but a 22 caliber 2 inch barrel is probably not going to do as much damage as a long range rifle designed for hunting deer and elk.
Smaller guns used by petty criminals may often cost less than larger assault weapons.
There can basically be two classes of small guns, in context. One are cheaper guns that have some impact, designed mainly for stopping power in emergencies, to thwart a robbery for instance, lethality not intended. The other category, are highly specialized compact weapons that might be very costly especially when purchased from a firearm company.
Compact, small, concealable, pocket, pistols, handguns, there are a bunch of different names for them. The key words for 2021 and 2022, are 'guns that can fit in a pocket', in someone's clothes, such as a pants pocket, or jacket. Often inconspicuously, it is barely noticeable that a would be shooter has the gun in an easy grab spot where they can reach in pull it out, then put it back and take off running.
The other prong to the combination of shooting then running and ether never caught or it takes a while for authorities to catch up to them, that often occurs, is the outfit and clothes the suspect shooter is wearing is dark, an blend with the dark hours of the night or early morning. Often, not always, violent crime involving small guns, these days, occurs somewhere between as soon as it gets dark, and early in the morning as the last trickles of weekend businesses like late night coffee shops, lounges, and night clubs, start to close down.
About 75% of the top news stories today, February 5, 2022, have to do with gun violence. From those numbers, about 75% of the gun violence involves teenagers as the victims.
Issues now are the availability and accessibility of criminal firearm use to smaller firearms. Whether purchased from a store, or built off the record, such as ghost guns.
Because of the lessened efficacy of smaller guns, would be shooters have figured out they need to be closer to the victim to do more injury to a potential victim. That might explain why a number of recent shootings, in addition to being during dark hours, are in situations where the shooter and victim are close to each other, such as in the same driveway of a house, inside a lounge, and gas stations, where a conversation and altercation can take place between the individuals.
Now a trademark of the type of crime has emerged, that when an altercation is going on where individuals are a few feet from each other, that it could be the setting for a small firearm discharge.
Of course the vulnerability found in teenagers' naivety is often exploited where they are lured into an argument, their egos are manipulate and they want to stand up or themselves; then for the slightest reason or provocation, out comes a small firearm.
The small gun shooting spates are spoiling the constructs in society of coming together. Ways to bring about change, markedly reducing small gun shootings, or any size gun, should be developed.
However, the challenge that has emerged in the changeover, is many would be criminal shooters are turning to smaller guns, and with that come the pros and cons of these types of weapons. To a shooter, a pro might be a con to an innocent victim and society, cons, vice versa. Explaining, the downside of a small gun or firearm to an ill intended shooter and hence con, works to the advantage of society that wants gun violence mitigation; main among these is that the number of victims during discharges of the firearm are reduced (often correlated to the reduced number of bullets that can fit in the gun), the lethality level of the firearm such caliber, often is not as strong, and the power of a shot is not felt as much when the bullet strikes a person from far off. This is not to say that a stray bullet from a small gun will do nothing beyond a quarter a mile, but a 22 caliber 2 inch barrel is probably not going to do as much damage as a long range rifle designed for hunting deer and elk.
Smaller guns used by petty criminals may often cost less than larger assault weapons.
There can basically be two classes of small guns, in context. One are cheaper guns that have some impact, designed mainly for stopping power in emergencies, to thwart a robbery for instance, lethality not intended. The other category, are highly specialized compact weapons that might be very costly especially when purchased from a firearm company.
Compact, small, concealable, pocket, pistols, handguns, there are a bunch of different names for them. The key words for 2021 and 2022, are 'guns that can fit in a pocket', in someone's clothes, such as a pants pocket, or jacket. Often inconspicuously, it is barely noticeable that a would be shooter has the gun in an easy grab spot where they can reach in pull it out, then put it back and take off running.
The other prong to the combination of shooting then running and ether never caught or it takes a while for authorities to catch up to them, that often occurs, is the outfit and clothes the suspect shooter is wearing is dark, an blend with the dark hours of the night or early morning. Often, not always, violent crime involving small guns, these days, occurs somewhere between as soon as it gets dark, and early in the morning as the last trickles of weekend businesses like late night coffee shops, lounges, and night clubs, start to close down.
About 75% of the top news stories today, February 5, 2022, have to do with gun violence. From those numbers, about 75% of the gun violence involves teenagers as the victims.
Issues now are the availability and accessibility of criminal firearm use to smaller firearms. Whether purchased from a store, or built off the record, such as ghost guns.
Because of the lessened efficacy of smaller guns, would be shooters have figured out they need to be closer to the victim to do more injury to a potential victim. That might explain why a number of recent shootings, in addition to being during dark hours, are in situations where the shooter and victim are close to each other, such as in the same driveway of a house, inside a lounge, and gas stations, where a conversation and altercation can take place between the individuals.
Now a trademark of the type of crime has emerged, that when an altercation is going on where individuals are a few feet from each other, that it could be the setting for a small firearm discharge.
Of course the vulnerability found in teenagers' naivety is often exploited where they are lured into an argument, their egos are manipulate and they want to stand up or themselves; then for the slightest reason or provocation, out comes a small firearm.
The small gun shooting spates are spoiling the constructs in society of coming together. Ways to bring about change, markedly reducing small gun shootings, or any size gun, should be developed.
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