countryboy
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.22s can kill. They are popular with assassins as they leave no ballistics. But they dont pack a lot of punch so there are fewer targets on a body that will guarantee a kill.
So if you can hit an eyeball, you're golden. If you can hit s head you're better off with a larger calibre.
22LR csn easily penetrate soft tissue in the upper body mass, and will kill you just as dead as any other bullet, sure, it may take two or three shots, but dead is dead. For that matter, a 22LR round has no trouble penetrating bone either, so no, an eyeball shot wouldn't be necessary to kill. You can shoot right through someone skull, no problem. A Ruger10/22 will accept 25 round magazines, a shooter can easily carry half a dozen or more just in his cargo pants pockets. Look up the Cascade Mall shooting, if you want to see a graphic example of this in action. That shooter killed five people in a shopping mall, in literally seconds. He put down the rifle when his single magazine was expended. If he had reloaded, who knows how many he would have killed. This war on assault rifles is nothing more than a way to disarm the citizenry, it will do nothing for public safety.
