RE: Now Playing on Dtube: Deterring Bullets - Florida School Shooting Victim States She Used Book to Deter Bullets From Hitting Her
AR-15s are .22 caliber bullets. If you research bullet design, you will discover that bullets can be manufactured for various purposes, including penetration (armor piercing). Such bullets are designed to not deform to the degree possible when striking.
Bullets designed to harm living things are designed to fragment or deform at the least contact, and won't penetrate even one phone book, particularly such low mass bullets as .22 caliber, typically from 45 to 55 grains.
A good metaphor for bullets is cars. Some cars can go 600 MPH. Some can't go 35. Some can haul rocket ships to launch pads, and some can barely haul one person. Bullets are just as diverse in their designs as cars.
If a book is all you have to put between you and a shooter, use the book. Particularly with a .22 caliber, which has very little mass to pound through the book with.
You are absolutely right that she wouldn't be wondering if the book was hit by a bullet, as even an AR-15 will deliver about 700 ft lbs. of energy at that range, and would at least make a hole in the book, if not knock it clean from her hands.
I agree as to emotional manipulation via the enemedia. That's what they're for, after all: promulgation of propaganda, and they're really good at it, as we can see in this clip.
As to the analysis of the gestures and speech of the victim, I hold little stock in it. People's reaction to crisis, personal mannerisms, and remarkable elasticity make me highly skeptical of it. It's clearly possible that the victim could be a crisis actor, but that isn't saying much, particularly in a world with Face2Face software freely available. People fool lie detector tests on accident, and with training every time. Every trick you think you know is known to professional propagandists, and incorporated into their presentations.
I find it of vanishingly little use.
Data regarding content, changing stories, timelines, and etc., is demonstrably useful.
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Thanks for your response @valued-customer. In the video included above he shoots an AR-15 with a .556 round at close range and penetrates 15 phone books. I am not sure what round the shooter used in the Florida school shooting but I have not heard that it was .22 round. Other calibers include 5.56×45mm NATO, 5.7×28mm, 6.8mm Remington SPC, .300 Blackout, 9×19mm Parabellum and .458 SOCOM to name a few, according to Wikipedia. The design and shooting power is relatively the same as the M-16 which is designed for military use.
5.56 mm is .22 caliber. While AR-15s can be purchased in those other rounds, they're uncommon. My assumption is that it was the typical .22 caliber, just as is the M-16.
There are lot of good reasons to use .22 for military use, including being able to pack more rounds in a can, and that wounding an enemy takes 5 guys out of service (they have to pack him away from the front and get him to medical care), while killing one only takes out one.
Shooting someone with armor piercing rounds leaves a neat hole poked through them, which is orders of magnitude less lethal than shooting someone with a round designed to mushroom and expend it's energy immediately.
I'll watch the video now, but a round that will penetrate to that depth of phone books is really unsuitable for causing maximum harm to the target. Also, I'm assuming the phone books are dry, which makes them much more easily penetrated than organic material.
Wet phone books are very close to the density of meat. This is why they are often used in bullet performance tests.
I'm displaying my assumptions a lot here =p
Imma shut up now and watch the video.
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I have watched the video, and the assumptions I made are correct. The phone books are dry, and it was a full metal jacketed round, which didn't mushroom or deform at all.
If you look at the books the hole gradually gets larger as the bullet drags material from the previous book, or tumbles, into each new book.
A soft point hunting round would not have penetrated 5 wet phone books, and would have left a hole the size of your fist out the back of the first book. They are designed to mushroom, to spread wider, and to deliver the energy into the target, which is the opposite of full metal jacketed rounds, which are designed to penetrate armor and wound.