 Hey guys Dylan Schumacher with Citadel Defense and today I want to talk about Lethality versus incapacitation So what's what's the difference? Why does it matter? What are we talking about for so? Basically boils down to this In a self-defense everyday scenario, I don't really care how lethal or non lethal my gun is or my tool is I should just say What I care about is how effective it is at incapacitating someone right? I want the tool that is going to incapacitate someone which means stop them from doing the thing that made me need to Shoot them in the first place right as quickly as possible. That's the tool. I want whatever that tool is That's the one that I that I want So the you know, unfortunately, we don't live in the world of Star Trek right? We can't we can't set phasers to stun I was thinking about it today, and I was thinking, you know if the phaser existed and it had a stun setting I'd probably carry that instead of a gun because it'd be more effective at getting an immediate stop, right? So someone would say okay great Dylan we're in good the capacitation So why don't you just get good at jujitsu or get a taser or get pepper spray or whatever? And the answer is any other tool when that compared against a firearm is not as effective at Incapacitation period full stop end of sentence There are take you I've watched a lot of police shooting videos, and I've seen tasers fail a lot And pepper spray will not always be effective again based on person's body composition and Drugs or alcohol or whatever or just their pure unbridled will and desire to fight, right? I'm not saying pepper spray is a bad thing. I'm not saying tasers are well tasers are a bad thing I think they're pretty worthless. Okay, I'm not saying pepper spray is a bad thing But I am saying that when it comes to betting my life on an incapacitation to incapacitation tool I choose a gun now second part of this Incapacitation and lethality for firearms are correlated, right? They're they're they're directly correlated They're not inversely correlated meaning that the more effective a firearm is it incapacitation the more it moves up that scale The more lethal it gets. I don't I don't know of any firearm where that is not the case Rifles are the king of Incapacitation or maybe a buckshot out of a shotgun in close quarters. They're also extremely More lethal when compared to handguns, right? so Though those are just the facts of the matter But to be honest, I don't care how lethal or non-lethal My firearm is that that is a by-product of getting them to stop doing the thing where they are Threatening or trying to kill me or threatening or trying to kill people that I'm with or Threatening or trying to kill random people in a mall etc. etc. etc, right? What we want is that immediate incapacitation want them to stop Killing or stop doing the thing that made them For me to start to shoot them in the first place. That's what we want want them to stop doing that if they happen to die as a result I'm okay with that that is their choice that they made to kill people or to try to kill people And so if they didn't make it that's a bummer for them If they happen to make it again inconsequential to me will they'll go to jail and court etc. etc What I want them to do is stop doing it And so I'm going to shoot them as many times as we need to do in order to get them to stop doing it, right? That's incapacitation. So I'm just thinking about that I thought it'd be quick quick and helpful to make a video about that so that hey what we want out of our guns We want them to be really really good at incapacitating people Lethality care or don't care not not a big deal, but incapacitation That's what we want That's also by the way Why we carry hollow points in our pistols writer or defense rounds or whatever you want to call them is because they're better in incapacitating Then full metal jacket or around nose rounds. So side note other than that do brave deeds and endure