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Chapter 7 page 25

Artificer Urza

on Feb. 16, 2010

Believe it or not, people don't necessarily fall down upon receiving a fatal gunshot wound. Even if they are shot in the head (of course this depends on where and how much of the brain is destroyed), a person is capable of standing and returning fire. I've heard of cases where a person didn't even realize they were shot until they were slipping in their own blood. In other words, movies and TV (westerns especially) and some comics are lying to you. For gunshots, the only reason a person would fall immediately would be because of the force of impact or because of shock (Guess which reason it is this time).
Incidentally, stomach wounds are perhaps one of the longer, nastier, more painful ways to die; first there's the blood loss and pain, but also leaking gastrointestinal juices and acids (acids that you would find in a car battery) added in.