How do people survive gunshot wounds to internal organs?

Question

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?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You can survive on one lung but unless it only knicks a blood vessel getting shoot in the heart is a death sentence. Generally as long as the bullet avoids major arteries it’s not an immediate death sentence since aside from your brain and heart every other organ can continue on partial function.