What I have seen is what a ball peen hammer does to a head, right though the skull like it wasn't there. Anyone who lives after that will likely wish they had not. There are exceptions to everything of course.
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Example, in Jacksonville when I was a kid a guy robbed a store with a handgun. Wrong store, clerk pulled a shot gun and blew half the guys head off (literally). The guy ran about 4 blocks with half a head and then fell over stone dead. He could have killed or shot people long before dying. Still a shotgun to the head is 99% of the time instant lights out.
This was a good day BTW for good people. The fuck bag that got his head blown off had the week before robbed a store and killed the clerk. The clerk was a woman and there was a customer who was there and was a witness. The scum bag got the money, put the gun to the women's eye, winked at the witness and shot her right in front of him and left without saying a word.
If only he'd of had a 00 haircut a week earlier.
I think I remember that one. Here’s something similar. That pic I posted on MeWe of the creeper in my backyard- I’m fairly sure it’s the guy who’s wanted for fatally stabbing someone two streets away about a week later. His victim didn’t die on the spot even though his multiple wounds were clearly going to be fatal. The victim made it several blocks before collapsing and dying. TV and the movies have completely twisted our perceptions of what guns, knives, and any potentially fatal weapon actually does. I know two people still alive who survived point blank shots- one a 357 to the chest and another a 22 to the head, but they beat huge odds.