bullets

[PunkyD20391]

What would stop a bullet from hurting you? Other than a bullet proof vest. Something that any normal person would have with them.

[vanilla]

I've heard of pocket watches, pocket bibles and hip flasks stopping bullets, but this is WWI/WWII - I'd imagine the bullets were low velocity, or near the limit of the weapon's range. Best way to stop a bullet hurting you? Avoid people with guns...

[tomd]

A very fast reaction

[bluedolphin]

Saw a movie in the seventies where a guy was able to catch bullets between his teeth...It was a KungFu movie....I dont know what his name was but he was quite famous at the time!!!!!Also saw a guy who was able to snatch arrows out of the air...As tomd said it requires a very fast reaction!!!

[rekstout]

A bullet from a handgun could be stopped by a suitably full hard sided briefcase - unless you are talking about something over 9mm or a Magnum round of some sort. Rifle bullets will penetrate pretty much anything - including many cheap vests. Even if the bullet did not penetrate it could still cause massive internal injuries and even death.

[habiba]

for a start a person with a gun report him and bannish all the guns

[New Forester]

Catching bullets in your teeth is a magician's trick, and can't be done for real (after all, Kung Fu films are not renowned for their slavish adherence to the laws of physics...) A bullet has a great deal of energy. When it stops, that energy has to go somewhere. Stopping a bullet dead with your teeth would send the teeth the other way almost as fast, in bits, and the bullet would probably still have enough energy to make a big hole in your head (an arrow has a lot of energy too). This is actually how bullets do much of their damage -- the energy is dumped into your flesh, and it either breaks things, or in the case of high-velocity bullets, the water in the flesh is flash-boiled causing an explosion which does even more damage. A bucket of water might be good for stopping a slowish bullet, if you happened to have one handy and held it in just the right place... Your best bet is to hope that the ignorant bas*ard who has the gun is a rotten shot.

[PunkyD20391]

Well, the reason why I'm asking is because, I'm trying to write something, and the one person gets shot, but I want them to live, so I was just wondering what would stop the bullet from killing them. And if they did get hit with a bullet, but something would have stopped it, what would the impact of the bullet make? I hope you understand what I just said, I don't even know if I know what I was saying...

[Gandy]

A loosely hung piece (not taut) of roofing tarp (bitchumen and gravel) kind is fairly effective at stopping a bullet as it easily dissipates the force of the impact over a large area without letting the bullet penetrate it. Have fun writing that into your story :-)

[Tha-Flash]

I heard a police officer got shot and the bullet actually hit the radio, and it saved him. Remember hearing that in school when we were doing English.

[New Forester]

Well, lots of people who are shot do live. Why can't your character just be lucky -- it was a low-velocity bullet (eg small hand-gun) and it missed anything vital. Perhaps it hit an arm bone and stopped, or cut an artery in his leg which could be patched? How you are hurt will depend very much on exactly how you're standing, where and how far the bullet comes from, what the gun was, where exactly it hits you etc, whether it hit something else first, etc etc.

[PunkyD20391]

Well, I wanted it to kind of be like, my character has to go into surgery, etc. and their really worried about the character. Now, if you get shot, what places, if the bullet hit you, would be bad, but you could still live? And as you can see, I know NOTHING about guns and bullets. Thanks for answering:).

[blakerica]

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