20-01-2011, 11:21 AM
From what little I know Ed, I believe you are correct. It is more the type of ammunition used than the handgun firing it. As you've pointed out, if the round were hollow point (or a dum-dum type round), I would think the damage would be horrendous - probably catastrophic, as the round fragments into numerous pieces and then shrapnel's through the surrounding tissue.
If a full metal jacket round was used it would, in theory, pass straight through, and the damage would be less devastating, albeit not pleasant.
I don't pretend to be an expert, although I was an owner of a .45 Colt automatic handgun once upon a time. But I didn't shoot anyone. Obviously. Just paper targets.
What is needed is someone like Dr. W Hugh Thomas, the forensic doctor who is an expert on gunshot wounds. I know he was consulted for the British TV documentary on the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy back in 1984. Her death was used as an excuse by the British government to allow Reagan to launch US F-111 bombers from British bases to bomb Gaddafi in Tripoli - which was an act of war. It was a CIA sanctioned hit.
So, if anyone knows where he lives he's the man.
Having said all that, as an impartial observer, this thread is becoming more and more interesting. Unless I'm getting confused in my dotage, it seems there are conflicting stories of front to back, and back to front directions the bullet was fired from. Very Yitzak Rabin!
If a full metal jacket round was used it would, in theory, pass straight through, and the damage would be less devastating, albeit not pleasant.
I don't pretend to be an expert, although I was an owner of a .45 Colt automatic handgun once upon a time. But I didn't shoot anyone. Obviously. Just paper targets.
What is needed is someone like Dr. W Hugh Thomas, the forensic doctor who is an expert on gunshot wounds. I know he was consulted for the British TV documentary on the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy back in 1984. Her death was used as an excuse by the British government to allow Reagan to launch US F-111 bombers from British bases to bomb Gaddafi in Tripoli - which was an act of war. It was a CIA sanctioned hit.
So, if anyone knows where he lives he's the man.
Having said all that, as an impartial observer, this thread is becoming more and more interesting. Unless I'm getting confused in my dotage, it seems there are conflicting stories of front to back, and back to front directions the bullet was fired from. Very Yitzak Rabin!
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14