Originally Posted by
sawinredneck
The major flaw with that philosophy is many of us live in and carry defensively, in urban areas. A bullet “punching all the way through” increases the chance of hitting someone beyond the assailant, that we really don’t want to hit.
The reason militaries use ball ammo is they did studies years ago. If they killed a soldier they just tied up one or two people taking care of him. If they just wounded a soldier they could tie up to a dozen people taking care of them. It has nothing to do with the lethality of the round, sorry.