The sole purpose of my purchase was for target shooting. The thought of using this on another person never crossed my mind until your post, Larry, and what I mean by that is I never thought for a moment I was buying this gun for self defense ( I will admit the thought of taking out the neighbors 5 dogs did corss my mind) I am buying it for recreation. I like all kinds of recreation, weight lifting, running, raquetball, bicycling, kayaking, hiking, Track days, Autocrosses, and I know there are other interests...
I have always wanted to mess around with target shooting so I am finally giving it a try. Notice I went out and purchased a .22 and not something substantial, with "knock down power" same goes for when I have a pistol .22 will do fine for me.
Now to take this thread way off topic in off topic.
Do not let Mike Moore fool you, guns did not kill those kids in Columbine other kids did.
I recently took a parenting course the the teacher was instructing us on how to handle tattle tales. Our initial reaction is to go after the person being tattled on, when in essence you should be going to the kid tattling first.
Then she said something chilling.
Victims are shooters.
When you run past the kid who was hit, for example and yell at the hitter, you ignored the victim and gave all your attention to the aggressor. Meanwhile the victim is left all alone to deal with their own feelings. What we were taught to do was to go straight to the victim and ask them a series of questions, How did this make you feel? Do you like it when Johnny hits you? Go tell Johnny in your big voice how you feel....
Victim walks to aggressor and tells him, "I do not like it when you hit me, it hurts and I want you to stop."
Now the victim is a voice being herd and is standing up for themselves. Mommy and daddy cannot be there a kids entire life to fight their battles and allow them to be victims.
Those kids that did the shooting in Columbine were victims that never used their big voice and when they finally did stand up for themselves, they did it with guns instead of their voices because they were never taught to stand up for themselves. Bottom line Columbine was those kids parents fault for not teaching them to stand up for themselves.