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4. Some additional useful data for you:
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 01:53 PM
Nov 2015
http://nebula.wsimg.com/fb54bbe7bcde47ffde93ea48ce9b9f13?AccessKeyId=D0DCC35FC05D0FC60556&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

The last 25 years of modern wound ballistic research has demonstrated yet again what historical reports have always indicated, that there are only two valid methods of incapacitation: one based on psychological factors and the other physiological damage. People are often rapidly psychologically incapacitated by minor wounds that are not immediately physiologically incapacitating. Psychological factors are also the reason people can receive severe, even non-survivable wounds and continue functioning for short periods of time. Up to fifty percent of those individuals rapidly incapacitated by bullet wounds are probably incapacitated for psychological rather than physiological reasons. Psychological incapacitation is an extremely erratic, highly variable, and completely unpredictable human response, independent of any inherent characteristics of a particular projectile.


This is why a firearm often defuses a confrontation even if the armed victim is not an expert shot and has not trained to shoot under duress. The appearance of a firearm in the hands of a victim will give the aggressor pause and often cause a retreat.

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