Wiki article on penetrating head injuries claims that "The highest-velocity injuries tend to have the worst associated damage.[7] Penetrating injury from any missile such as a bullet has a mortality rate of 92%.[2]"
...That is two say, 8% of all people shot in the head make it out alive. Apparently. According to this.
That boggles the mind, doesn't it? There was a news item once about a man who was shot in the head and didn't even know it. I think he thought he'd just had a quick blow, but years later they dug a bullet out of the brain.
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Date: 2011-10-10 01:31 pm (UTC)...That is two say, 8% of all people shot in the head make it out alive. Apparently. According to this.
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Date: 2011-10-10 02:15 pm (UTC)Stranger than fiction, for sure.
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Date: 2011-10-10 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-11 01:35 am (UTC)