The Revolver Law

Damn! My S&W J-frame only carries five.

Posted by Robert at February 24, 2009 9:28 AM

Damn. If we could just get the ammo into the hands of the 36 righteous people who sustain the world....

Posted by Gagdad Bob at February 24, 2009 11:15 AM

I'll leave it for the gun nuts to correct me - I remember hearing that most people who get shot - get shot by somebody that they know.

>>>>> On any given day, the world is exactly six bullets away from being saved.

Never did think much of "born again".

Posted by F Murray Rumpelstiltskin at February 24, 2009 12:32 PM

Is this a six-degrees-of-separation effect, Gerard, or do you "have a little list?"

Posted by Francis W. Porretto at February 24, 2009 1:59 PM

The Revolver Law's First Corollary: Everyone's targets are different on different days.

Posted by vanderleun at February 24, 2009 2:23 PM

"I'll leave it for the gun nuts to correct me - I remember hearing that most people who get shot - get shot by somebody that they know."

Of course. Why shoot a stranger when you doubtless know some a-hole who needs to be killed?

Posted by js at March 4, 2009 9:17 AM

I remember hearing that most people who get shot - get shot by somebody that they know.

I'll bet that statistic came to you second or third hand from a discredited study by Arthur Kellerman, published in the NEJM in 1986.

Posted by Brian Dunbar at March 30, 2009 2:49 PM