BehindBlueI's
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- Oct 3, 2012
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I've wondered ever since what it must have been like for that guy to discharge a handgun inside his mouth and continue to live, even for a few seconds. It must have been pretty close to sucking on a propane torch.
We had a guy that put a .25 under his chin, pulled the trigger, and gave himself a speech impediment. The guy called 911 afterward, I guess changing his mind on the suicide thing once his tongue started to hurt, but the dispatcher couldn't understand him so it wasn't dispatched as a person shot. He couldn't tell officers what happened, as his swollen tongue made him quite difficult to understand, so he started pointing in his mouth. My sergeant shined a light in his mouth and saw a little metal tonsil hanging from his hard palette, which was the bullet.
I've also had a .25 from about 3' away go through a screen of a screen door, penetrate the leather of a boot, and give the guy a bruise. Didn't even break the skin. The other two shots missed entirely and broke the first pane of glass of a double pain window, but didn't break the second, and fell down inside the window. The shooter did manage to off himself with a temple shot a few days later after running from police, though.