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But 20? Like if you get shot once, hell, more than once, wouldn't you just more or less drop from the pain?
In high stress situations people frequently don't even realize they got shot until after the adrenaline wears off. In my EMR course they trained us that we need to physically check for bullet wounds ourselves if a shooting was suspected because you can't rely on the victim knowing that they've been shot.
That's why mag dumping is more or less standard practice in survival situations. Sure, 1 bullet may kill the person, but it probably won't do so for several minutes and until then you've only pissed them off. So you shoot and keep shooting until they actually drop. Which, when you're talking about a particularly wimpy round like the one above, can take far more bullets that most people expect.
Kind of like how I unload an entire can of bug spray at the wasp that came into my house.
As a European this is my only frame of reference.
This is one of the most American comments I've ever read.
Sounds fair, makes sense. I'll keep this in mind in the (hopefully unlikely) scenario where I need to defend myself with a firearm.
Where one would actually need to use the gun, perhaps adrenaline would come into play?