I mean, if you get shot anywhere in the chest, that’s going to hit your lungs or your heart, how do you not die almost instantly?
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You can limp along on one good lung and one punctured lung for a while as long as a major artery isn’t hit.
A hit to the heart is usually instantly fatal unless it’s a graze.
The other organs are (pun maybe intended?) hit or miss. Hits to the digestive system aren’t immediately fatal but can be difficult to repair later and cause problems.
Surviving doesn’t necessarily mean full recovery – the news rarely distinguishes degree of injury when discussing a shooting. You’ll hear one dead and two injured, but that injury could be a graze wound treated on the scene or the person could be in a wheelchair pooping in a bag for the rest of their life.
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