Making things safer?
No. Making things more dangerous. That’s what you get when you have uneducated Leftists making law predicated but upon only emotions and not facts.
From Breitbart.com:
San Francisco’s Hollow Point Ban Endangers Lives: Just Ask The NYPD
by Awr Hawkins
Hard left gun control proponents have a habit of passing laws–ostensibly to save lives–which actually do just the opposite. San Francisco’s hollow point ammunition ban is just such a law.
A hollow point bullet is a bullet that expands in diameter once it hits the right kind of tissue. These are exceptional self-defense rounds because their expansion creates a larger wound cavity. A hollow point bullet is therefore far more likely to stop an attacker with one shot–maybe two–verses full metal jacket rounds fired in the same caliber.
A full metal jacket round is just what it sounds like–fully metal. It is a ball of lead covered in copper which is smooth and slick and enters the body without tearing and ripping like a hollow point.
So San Francisco banned hollow points but allows full metal jacket and that means everything is safer, right?
Wrong. It actually means everything is now more dangerous.
Why? Because of the issue of penetration. Hollow point bullets are designed to respond primarily to human threats. That is why they are utilized by law enforcement agencies. They are meant to damage human tissue and stop the attack, not to over-penetrate and exit the body.
A full metal jacket bullet in a hot caliber has a tendency to go all the way through an individual, whereas a hollow point grinds to a halt in the body. What this means is that San Francisco’s hollow point bullet ban opens the door to more people getting shot with bullets that have passed through intended targets and struck innocents in the background.
Did the NYPD learn a lesson from the HP bullet ban?
NYPD police commissioner Howard Safir put it this way: “We are, in fact, going to switch to hollow-point ammunition as soon as we receive it. They are much safer than fully jacketed bullets, which will go through a person or tumble through a person’s organs and then continue on and hit innocent victims.”
Thanks San Francisco. Another reason — amongst many — why I’m glad I don’t live there.
BZ
