Shot Placement The single greatest factor controlling how fast a bullet will stop an attacker (before he can use his own weapon) is, without a doubt, where the bullet enters the opponent's body. This is SHOT PLACEMENT, and in handgun stopping power, there is nothing more important. Fortunately for us as handgun shooters, shot placement is also the factor over which we have the most control. The two places that a handgun bullet will stop an attacker reliably and almost instantly are... 29 www.BulletproofDefenseDVD.com 1. The brain. 2. The left ventricle of the heart. D espite this, people are sometimes shot in the head and not stopped at all. This is because the skull is hemispherical. It's made of hard bone, and sometimes bullets will spin AROUND the skull rather than penetrate it. (When you think about it, the skull is really rather brilliantly designed to protect your brain.) A person shot in the head by a bullet that travels around the skull without penetrating it will generally be knocked unconscious if he or she is not killed. There have been several documented cases in which a person so shot did not lose consciousness at all, however. This is true even though one of them was shot with a .45 ACP from a 1911 pistol right in the FOREHEAD at POINT BLANK RANGE. One Los Angeles police officer was shot in the heart three times, but the high pressure of the heart, combined with the fact that the left ventricle was not hit, allowed that officer to remain ambulatory and conscious. She lived, because she received immediate and skilled medical care.
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