[mburbank]

See, now, I can imagine lots of situations where I'd want to have a gun that don't feature killing the other person, and in a tense situation, I don't want to say, hang on a sec, I need to reload as I only want to wound you.

In addition, people who think they would never do any such thing find themselves point a gun they own at a spouse or special friend, or their kid finds their gun even though they hid it real good, or some punk ass dufus gets all mad on account of having been dissed, and in all of those cases, it would be good if there was some chance the person on the recieving end of the bullet might survive. In fact, these scenarios happen WAY more often than the ones in which it's kill or be killed which don't happen to most people who aren't cops or soldiers ever.

I bet Dick Chenney is glad he wasn't using super duper explody bullets that one time.