<<Julie: You'd have to be closer?>> I certainly don't have any stats, but it's my decided impression that one could shoot a rubber bullet gun from a farther distance than the reach of a base-ball bat, giving the assaulter (is that a word?) less time to get close enough to grab the bat, etc. Am I wrong? Are rubber bullets only shot at extremely close range? A baseball bat is what -- 4' long roughly? Julie Krueger