From: Jonathan Spencer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Not according to Massad Ayoob in his training course. He reports incidents
>involving fatal brain shots (as well as fatal hits elsewhere), where the
>wounded person has continued to function sufficiently well for long enough
>to be deadly.
In which case, the brain is not been destroyed but merely penetrated. A
shot that destroys the brain or destroys the brain stem (what is
sometimes referred to as the reptile brain) will cause instantaneous in
voluntary loss of function.
>In one case, a man was shot at point blank range through the
>head with a .44 Magnum. The bullet removed a substantial proportion of his
>brain and blew his left eyeball out in the process. He was not even
>rendered unconscious; he ripped himself out of the grip of the 2 men holding
>him, ran to the door, opened it, ran down 2 flights of stairs, across a
>hall, opened another door, crossed a pavement and reached his car (in which
>he had a pistol), before collapsing.
An exceptional case, which just a goes to show that in life (and death,
ho ho) nothing is assured.
>According to Massad Ayoob, the only bullet location which always produces
>instant and total shutdown, is the central cortex (?), which is the main
>nervous system junction box, located approximately where the spine meets the
>skull, roughly in line with the mouth.
aka the brain stem or reptile brain
--Jonathan Spencer, firearms examiner
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Judge Sturgess, 22 July 1928
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