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if it takes you 20 shots to neutralize a threat at point-blank, I don't think you should be allowed to own a gun
5.7 is known to be pretty terrible for its "stopping power" for lack of a better term. Its a handgun round design to penetrate body armor. In doing so it had to make sacrifices in bullet dimensions and weight. It performs similarly to a .22 magnum round which is a frankly wimpy cartridge meant for small game like rabbits.
So 20 rounds to stop a human isn't stretching the truth too much.
But 20? Like if you get shot once, hell, more than once, wouldn't you just more or less drop from the pain?
Where one would actually need to use the gun, perhaps adrenaline would come into play?