Posted by 1911Tuner: Who's to say that a percentage of the results from the 125s...or possibly even all of them...wouldn't have been exactly the same if the same people were shot in exactly the same spot on the same day under the same conditions and under the same circumstances?
Or, to put it another way: there is an
extremely large number of possibilities for important variation in
each of the following important factors:
- precisely where the bullets struck each of the targets
- the angle at which the bulltets entered each of the targets
- the position and posture of each of the targets
- the physical condition of each of the targets before being shot
- the psychological condition of each of the targets before being shot
- the presence of depressants or stimulants, or lack of same...
None of the above are known. Nor is much known about the immediate effects of the shots, or the second shots, or the third.
Considering both the large number of available combinations of the above and the ways in which bullets stop assailants or fail to do so, it would take an
enormous data sample--
far greater than that which has ever been compiled--to draw any really meaningful conclusions.
Simply categorizing "torso" hits won't cut it. The human body is an
extremely complicated biological system, and it does
not constitute a homogenous mass.
I would put
far more stock into computer simulations conducted by persons knowledgeable of the immediate effects of injuries to different parts of the musculo-skeletal system, the CNS, the rest of the nervous system, and the cardiovascular system than into some limited data compiled from an inadequate number of observations with little granularity among the different aspects of each data point.
That has never been attempted.
And one more time, we need to remind ourselves that terminal ballistics is but a small element of the picture. Where and at what angle how many bullets strike an attacker will depend upon things like skill, controllability, rate of fire, distance, speed and direction of a moving target, how quickly the defender is able to get his gun into action, and luck.