DA> A couple years ago, there was a period of a few months in
 DA> which two men were killed with .25acp.  A state police
 DA> officer was fatally wounded with a single .25acp wound to
 DA> the chest (the media did not reveal exactly where he was
 DA> hit.)  It put him down immediately, but it took a while for
 DA> him to exsanguinate, and he still died after the ambulance
 DA> and med-chopper arrived.   Lots of cops started wearing
 DA> their vests after that incident.
 DA> The other case was where a man died from 4 hits of a .25
 DA> acp to both front chest and his back. Again the media was
 DA> not clear on how many shots were where.
 DA> And yet plenty of Emergency Rooms are able to save people
 DA> with multiple .380acp and 9mm wounds.
During my CCW class we watched a video (don't ask me the name, though) where
they were talking about how people with ultimately fatal wounds could
continue to function for minutes after being shot as well as people who
receive serious, but not immediately life-threatening gunshot wounds who die
anyway.  One of the suspicions about these incidents is that when someone
gets shot and the brain registers that they've been shot, they just sort of
give up by thinking "oh my god, I've been shot and am gonna die!" even though
their wound isn't necessarily fatal.  Same goes for the people who continue
to function for a while after getting fatal wounds; a lot of time they don't
realize that they've been shot, but once they see the wound it's Goodnight
Irene and down they go.  Seems that psychology can play a major role in
gunshot deaths.  Was pretting interesting.
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