Subject: Re: Twin Peaks - Season Finale - Everybody dies and we all go home.
From: msmiller@gonzoville.Eng.Sun.COM (Mark Miller)
Date: 1990-05-24, 08:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv
Reply-to: msmiller@Sun.COM (Mark Miller)

In article <EaKxnYy00VsnMQjHh3@andrew.cmu.edu>, bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Robert Steven Glickstein) writes:
|>Anyway, think about it.  You've got a tiny slug of metal penetrating a
|>small area of the victim's body.  Granted, it's traveling at extremely
|>high speed when it hits, but its mass is so low that, off the top of
|>my head, the force of impact is probably comparable to getting beaned
|>by a line drive.  If you've ever been beaned by a line drive, you know
|>that it can *really smart*, but it doesn't hurl you backwards.

No, the original article was correct. Take for example the .45 Automatic
used in the service. If that hits you in the hand, it takes the rest of
your body with it. It was designed to do just this - stopping power. Now,
a .22 won't exhibit this same potential, but the pistol that was used 
looked like a 9mm which certainly would.
                                          
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