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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8294200" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>Somebody had better go tell everyone with at least one, if not multiple, gunshot wound scars that they are dead.</p><p></p><p>Fifty Cent took nine rounds at close range. Including one in the chest and one in the head. Dude must've died that night and someone else is -pretending- to be him on stage.</p><p></p><p>And someone tell all those doctors to stop wasting their time on people who have been shot in the chest even though the mortality rate is 18% out of the 1,100 in this study: <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2911188/" target="_blank">Unusually low mortality of penetrating wounds of the chest. Twelve years' experience - PubMed</a></p><p></p><p>Especially strange considering the mortality rate for those with cardiac damage from a bullet is only 24%.</p><p></p><p>I also PARTICULARLY like how you go on about people defending themselves against a sword having Defensive Wounds but act like someone in close range somehow isn't trying to, y'know, control the wrist and/or gun of the person pointing it at them like -that- never happens. All your gunshot victims are perfectly passive and your sword victims fight back. Weird that!</p><p></p><p>One shot to the torso, whether from a gun or a sword, is probably going to have a similar lethality without treatment. But the time involved that you can survive before treatment is going to be shorter with a sword because of the larger relative area of any damage done. Because a sword is, wait for it... Larger. And designed to impact a larger area than a bullet is. Meaning more blood vessels are open. Meaning you bleed out faster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8294200, member: 6796468"] Somebody had better go tell everyone with at least one, if not multiple, gunshot wound scars that they are dead. Fifty Cent took nine rounds at close range. Including one in the chest and one in the head. Dude must've died that night and someone else is -pretending- to be him on stage. And someone tell all those doctors to stop wasting their time on people who have been shot in the chest even though the mortality rate is 18% out of the 1,100 in this study: [URL='https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2911188/']Unusually low mortality of penetrating wounds of the chest. Twelve years' experience - PubMed[/URL] Especially strange considering the mortality rate for those with cardiac damage from a bullet is only 24%. I also PARTICULARLY like how you go on about people defending themselves against a sword having Defensive Wounds but act like someone in close range somehow isn't trying to, y'know, control the wrist and/or gun of the person pointing it at them like -that- never happens. All your gunshot victims are perfectly passive and your sword victims fight back. Weird that! One shot to the torso, whether from a gun or a sword, is probably going to have a similar lethality without treatment. But the time involved that you can survive before treatment is going to be shorter with a sword because of the larger relative area of any damage done. Because a sword is, wait for it... Larger. And designed to impact a larger area than a bullet is. Meaning more blood vessels are open. Meaning you bleed out faster. [/QUOTE]
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