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People do not in fact immediately fall over just because you shoot them. The idea of shooting someone with a pistol or rifle caliber to stop them from doing som
by stefan_ 4y ago
People do not in fact immediately fall over just because you shoot them. The idea of shooting someone with a pistol or rifle caliber to stop them from doing something in a split second is firmly a movie trope.
- vorpalhex 4y agoAnd that is why cops get taught to mag dump suspects in center mass. Shooting someone a half dozen to a dozen times does tend to make them dead.
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- tzs 4y agoIf I recall correctly there is some interesting discussion of that in the delightful book "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" [1]. One it describes (unless I'm mixing it up with another book) involved someone getting shot at close range through the heart, destroying their heart. They still had time to draw their own gun, aim, and fatally shoot the first shooter. Another dramatic example, which I read about in the wonderful "Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present" [2] is the death of the 1930s bank robber Baby Face Nelson. He got in a shootout with two FBI agents. They shot him in the abdomen. He then advanced on their position while they continued shooting at him, hitting 8 more times in the legs. Still he managed to keep going and killed one of the agents and seriously wounded the other (who would later die of his wounds, as would Nelson). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff:_The_Curious_Lives_of_Human_Cadavers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff:_The_Curious_Lives_of_Hu... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Bloodletters-Badmen-Narrative-Encyclopedia-Criminals/dp/087131777X https://www.amazon.com/Bloodletters-Badmen-Narrative-Encyclo...