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In reply to the discussion: Doctor shows heartless GOP Senate video of what assault rifles do when bullet explodes inside you [View all]Xithras
(16,191 posts)Shoot a deer with the .223 FMJ round used in AR-15's by our soldiers and it might take it HOURS to die. Shoot a human with that bullet and it might take several hours as well.
Shoot a deer with a .223 softpoint and it will probably be dead within a few minutes. Ironically, most serious hunters don't even like the .223 for deer hunting because it doesn't do ENOUGH damage. The ammunition of choice for a deer is still a .30-06 softpoint, which will kill a deer (and a human) almost instantly from organ trauma and blood loss alone.
It's an interesting dichitomy. With humans, we mandate the use of a bullet that causes the least amount of damage possible, because we want to give the human soldiers to have a chance at being saved. With animals, we use (and often mandate) the use of a bullet that causes the most damage possible, because we want the animal to die instantly to reduce its suffering.
Clearly, it's a problem when someone uses animal ammunition on a human. You end up with a level of lethality that even a soldier isn't allowed to use.
There's no way to fix it without banning hunting though. That won't happen in our lifetimes.