Gateshead teenager, Nicola Diston, was left blind in one eye after being hit by a pellet from an airgun two weeks ago.
They're not deadly. They're blinding.
To call them deadly, you must come up with at least one incident where the person shot actually died. Which I'm sure exists.
If I remember correctly, some kid shot another in the side of the head and the 'another' died. Pellet gun. Cincinnati, Ohio.
There are air/pellet guns on the market that will shoot a projectile faster than a .45 automatic. A number of them will do better than 1000 fps.