What's YOUR favorite self-defense/firearms myth??

[Classic]

If you shoot an intruder on your own property and they fall outside your property, you should drag them back on your property.

 

[Davegrave]

If you shoot someone breaking into your house and they fall on your porch, you better drag them inside so you don't get charged with murder.

I hear this shockingly often.

 

[OneBadV8]

"I'll have plenty of time to rack my slide and put one in the chamber"

 

[esrice]

"I never let anyone get within 5 feet of me."

 

[Aaron1776]

Headshots are illegal in Indiana.

lol Wow. Never heard that one.

I don't even know how to react to that....

 

[cjacobs]

Handgun stopping power, or as some like to call it knockdown power....

 

[Aaron1776]

If you shoot someone breaking into your house and they fall on your porch, you better drag them inside so you don't get charged with murder.

"I'll have plenty of time to rack my slide and put one in the chamber"

"I never let anyone get within 5 feet of me."

I hear these three so often that it's disturbing.

 

[Bill B]

Custom work on a handgun will be considered intent by prosecutors and you'll be charged with attemted murder, regardless of any other facts.

 

[D-Ric902]

Glock is going to make a single stack 26/27

 

[ultra...good]

Hunting humans with 30 round magazines is legal.

 

[Jack Burton]

you can fire off a dozen rounds in an elevator and still have normal hearing 30 seconds later.

 

[david76]

"This is a gun free zone"

 

[seldon14]

Birdshot is adequate or effective for self defense.

 

[Roadie]

"I don't need a gun, I am a black belt"

 

[9mmfan]

9mm sucks as a defensive round.

 

[LANShark42]

"Carrying a handgun is a cure for all your ills and makes you safe beyond reproach."

 

[Kutnupe14]

If you have a firearm you are more likely to be shot with it than to shoot an intruder.

Uh.... I think that one is actually true

 

[Mackey]

Hand guns are instruments of death.

Wait, that may be true.

 

[miguel]

Racking a shotgun makes people flee in terror.

This.

Somebody I like told me that once and I wanted to kick him in the shin for not knowing better!

 

[The Bubba Effect]

You don't really need to aim a shotgun, it spreads out so much that you'll pretty much hit everything in front of you.

Ammunition in a fire will send bullets flying all over the place.

Shoot somebody with X and it will knock them off their feet and throw them across the room.