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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Because instant death from gun shot is more of a movie thing than reality. Bullets are very small and the chest is large. And you have to remember that you’re not just shooting somebody straight on, and even if you are all of those organs are protected by the rib cage.
There are a few places in the body where a person can be hit and they will drop instantly. Mostly parts of the brain and brain stem. Heart will do so pretty quickly as well – but only if the shot causes enough damage to prevent it from pumping blood.
Otherwise, it’s just a question of how long it takes to bleed out or for the lungs to fill with blood. With proper emergency medical care, those processes can be slowed long enough to get somebody to surgery.
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