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<blockquote data-quote="Jim Hague" data-source="post: 3554491" data-attributes="member: 17550">Uh, no.&nbsp; Bullets, particularly large-caliber ones, rip tunnels and holes in flesh.&nbsp; Moreso if you're dealing in crazy stuff like hollow-points and Glaser rounds, doubly so if you have something like large-ought shot in a shotgun.&nbsp; Automatic weapons do this quickly.&nbsp; The idea that, somehow, the undead are immune (effectively) to bullets but not knives and swords is...amusing.&nbsp; It's easy to cripple someone, anyone, by dint of the fact that those 'non vital' muscles and bones get broken, torn and reduced to pulp by little slugs of metal.&nbsp; Sure, they wouldn't bleed, but that's a relatively small concern when a bullet blows a hole the size of a saucer in you.It's a conceit of the world that exists pretty much to ensure that vampires can laugh at the mortals they're supposedly afraid of, and it's weak sauce.&nbsp; Even I Am Legend had a better (if still ridiculous) explanation of why bullets don't work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jim Hague, post: 3554491, member: 17550"] Uh, no. Bullets, particularly large-caliber ones, rip tunnels and holes in flesh. Moreso if you're dealing in crazy stuff like hollow-points and Glaser rounds, doubly so if you have something like large-ought shot in a shotgun. Automatic weapons do this [i]quickly[/i]. The idea that, somehow, the undead are immune (effectively) to bullets but not knives and swords is...amusing. It's easy to cripple someone, anyone, by dint of the fact that those 'non vital' muscles and bones get broken, torn and reduced to pulp by little slugs of metal. Sure, they wouldn't bleed, but that's a relatively small concern when a bullet blows a hole the size of a saucer in you. It's a conceit of the world that exists pretty much to ensure that vampires can laugh at the mortals they're supposedly afraid of, and it's weak sauce. Even [i]I Am Legend[/i] had a better (if still ridiculous) explanation of why bullets don't work. [/QUOTE]

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