alucard0822
For great Justice
I'm surprised that no one has brought up the fact that this guy basically took a mag dump of 38 in the torso and it didn't immediately have much of an effect.
Larger, Heavier projectiles have much greater stopping power with fewer rounds leaving a defender with the possibility/capability of dealing with the aggressors accomplices without the requirement to reload.
38 is better than nothing but 45 is much more effective.
It's all in what was struck, and how long incapacitation took, which may have been only a couple seconds in this case. There are plenty of bad guys walking the street now with more than 5 40 or 45 cal holes in them that had to be wrestled to the ground, and plenty in the morgue with a single 22 or 38 caliber hole that were dead before they hit the ground. Granted, a larger caliber is more likey to penetrate and incapacitate someone "faster", but unless the CNS is struck directly, they can still fight for at least a couple seconds, and possibly for much longer, and there are so many variables that come into play before caliber is considered, that it isn't entirely accurate to blame the caliber. In fact it did it's job, and stopped the threat in this case. Although if the others were as determined as the idiot that jumped Ung, a reload or more capacity could have come in handy.