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Old June 5, 2012, 02:16 PM   #28
Mike Irwin
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"Getting shot in the stomach with any 9mm+ will kill in 15 minutes."

Uhm....

OK, not sure where you came up with that, but I guess someone forgot to tell my neighbor when I was growing up.

He fought in the Pacific in World War II and took a chunk of Japanese shell in the stomach.

He survived several hours without anything other than very basic medical care.

He ended up losing a good portion of his stomach and had a raging peritoneal infection to deal with, but he's living proof (well, he was, he died some years ago) that being shot in the stomach isn't a 15-minute death sentence.

Medical statistics from the Civil War indicate that roughly 11% of soldiers who were hit in the stomach survived (much better than abdominal wounds, which apparently were 98% fatal).
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