Are you asking me or him? I think I've been clear.
Bullets in bodies are extremely unpredictable, but when you’re writing, a basic rule of thumb is “no, gunshot wounds are not immediately fatal.” In fact, if you discount suicides, only about 30% of all (intentional) shots are even fatal.
The most likely outcome from getting shot during a fight is that the person will keep fighting. Even if a wound is eventually fatal, a person will still be conscious and operational unless they’ve been hit in an artery or vital organ, so they can still fire their own gun at you while bleeding out. Getting shot sometimes feels a lot like getting punched (if there’s only soft tissue damage), and some people can run around for several minutes or even hours without realizing they have been shot. Even shots to the torso are survivable. You can run around for a surprisingly long time with a hole in your lung or shrapnel in your liver. (You’ll pay for it later, but since we’re talking about ‘immediately after being shot’…)
The two biggest concerns with gunshot wounds are bleeding and shock. Shock can be fatal even with minor wounds.
The main thing to remember when writing gunshot wounds is that bullets in bodies are unpredictable. Someone can live through being shot 20 times and then die from being shot once in the leg. You can (almost) do anything. If you want to strive for realism, it’s all going to be dependent on the characters’ reactions to events. If a character is familiar with guns and shooting, they should expect a body to keep moving after being shot, and if they’re trying to stop they person they should shoot multiple times. “On shot, one kill” is a brag, not a methodology. If a character is unfamiliar with gunshot wounds, they might (like you) be surprised to find you can’t actually make someone fall over with one shot. And, of course, if you’re going to go the route of “Whitley said I could kill someone by shooting them in the shin” or some other possible-but-unlikely scenario, every character involve should be boggled so that the audience knows this is an unusual thing.
But, yeah, like 90% of the time, someone who gets shot is not going to die instantly.
It's hilarious that we as a society think everyone can be a dr, a lawyer, an engineer. Some people are just fucking stupid. Why can't we just accept that?
Seeing a Kenyan win gold in the javelin final is what we really should be talking about here.
To those in this thread wondering, it is a common misconception that you immediately feel being shot. Growing up next to Texas I have been around and shot many guns in my life.
I have witnessed two people (morons) shoot themselves and here is how they both reacted. The first guy shot himself in the hand as he was trying to clean his gun while it was loaded. He shot himself right through the palm and instantly knew something was wrong and kind of screamed but he was still moving full speed and said he couldn't feel the pain right away even though he could see the wound.
The second guy thought his handgun was empty but there was one bullet in the chamber. He was aiming the gun down towards his feet when it went off. He asked everyone if they were ok and checking himself (even walking around) for a good 10-20 seconds before realizing he had shot himself directly through the middle of his right foot.
Both eventually ended up fine with actually minor scarring. It is a movie thing to think people immediately collapse when shot or instantly die. That's not to say this isn't possible but it is the vast minority of people that this happens to because the adrenaline in the body is enough to overcome even serious wounds for a short amount of time.
For those saying the video looks fake I would recommend not having a set criteria for what a gun attack should look like because there are an infinite number of unique scenarios.
-Stamos
Holy fuck Druff. She didn't get shot with a fucking bazooka or a air to ground missile. It looked like a small caliber handgun.
Of course she'll most likely be able to run a short distance unless she was hit in the heart or severed the spinal cord which obviously never happened. You're acting like she did a full 6 city block sprint to the fucking hospital or something.
(•_•) ..
∫\ \___( •_•)
_∫∫ _∫∫ɯ \ \
Originally Posted by Hockey Guy
just watched the videos.
is the general consensus that he held the gun aimed at her because he wanted her to turn and look at him before he started shooting?
i would have thought the lady being interviewed would have seen him standing there with a gun from her peripheral vision.
i guess newsreaders have trained themselves to stare straight ahead and block out all sidevision. even if she did sense someone was there she prob thought it was going to be another "fuck her right in the pussy" live tv invasion.
also "tight country"
i know, i know, yous cant fix the problem because you have an exclusive cultureSINCE 2013 there have been 864 mass shootings in the US, where four or more people have been shot in the one event.
That means in the 139 weeks since the start of 2013, there has been an average of 6.2 mass shootings per week. Almost one a day.
Those shootings have left 1125 people dead and 3097 wounded. And, if we don’t restrict those numbers to just mass shootings, there have been a total of 32,000 firearm deaths in just two and a half years.
![]()
If you can get your people to stop with the, thanks"mate", "good on ya mate", "I fucked a Roo mate" etc, then maybe those gun toting Yanks will change
"The founding fathers did not like the idea of the tyranny of the majority ruling the country"
Dan Druff
“I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today if a gift
and that is why it's called the present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pooh needs Chaps. While Pooh is taking a bath the last while, Chaps made (FAKE MONEY, PAPER ACCT) 60k on a 100k margin account shorting that bitch of a /ESU5 (10 cars/trade). Watch my stock thread tomorrow for my Friday-Monday weekend gapper watchlist. My last pick popped 300-400% on Monday.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)