Why millions of Americans — including me — own the AR-15

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153. To say "it only inflicts a shallow surface wound" is incredibly ignorant.

A shotgun will deliver a very lethal wound even if fired by someone without training. A shotgun will drop a person at 50 feet or more without any problems. Bone can be a problem for a shotgun if from a distance, but soft tissue is not. Unless the home is huge, then a shotgun is more effective and less likely to kill your neighbor as the shot goes through the walls of the houses, like it would from an AR type weapon. When one of my brothers was 12 and rabbit hunting, his friend dropped his loaded shotgun. The buckshot hit my brother that was about 75 feet away. Unless for the heavy coat my brother was wearing, the buckshot would have been much more than what it was in his skin. An ER doctor had to dig it out of his back. Some of the wounds required stitches. Shallow surface wound indeed.