[mmercier]

>> Never give up. Getting shot by a handgun, outside of a few obvious spots on your body, is a survivable event.

I would not recommend thinking like this.

In my experience, if you try to kill someone with a .357, you will likely fail, if you drop a .22 while loaded you will likely kill someone in error.

Never give up is good advice, but treat every firearm with respect, as even a .177 pellet can kill. A girl in Boston recently got killed by a "nonlethal" pepper ball from an air gun.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

My comment is in regards to if you are already shot, don't give up. There are people who quit, died, gave up, when shot because they think if you get shot you are supposed to die.

They die of shock when they have been shot in the forearm and no major blood vessel has been hit.

That's your brain telling you that you're supposed to die if you get shot, so you die.

I wouldn't recommend the THIS course of action.