There is an extremely important quirk of the .22 that radically increases its lethality, even with treatment. For some reason, it tends to bounce around the abdomen a bit, *nicking* internal organs. Not enough to overcome the bodies ability to deal with a little internal bleeding.
And this makes it deadly. Typically, a person with a .22 wound to the abdomen gets to a hospital, the bullet is removed. They seem to be getting better, then suddenly they develop a very high fever. Peritonitis. An infection of the abdomen.
Even if they get huge amounts of antibiotics, peritonitis has a high mortality rate.
A shot through the intestines is very frequently a fatal one if it is not treated within a few hours.
“There is an extremely important quirk of the .22 that radically increases its lethality, even with treatment. For some reason, it tends to bounce around the abdomen a bit, *nicking* internal organs.”
That is why organized crime killers used a 22 to the head - it stayed in the skull bouncing around totally destroying the brain tissue - that person was dead. A more powerful round could go completely through the bone and out and the person might live. Kathy Gifford, for instance.
For some reason, it tends to bounce around the abdomen a bit, *nicking* internal organs.