Is it safe to shoot oneself in the head with a .45 ?

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ChrisGibboGibson

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No doubt someone can show mathematically that under certain circumstances the
victim will not be damaged.

That doesn't alter the fact that the answer to the question is "no"

:)

Gibbo
 
ChrisGibboGibson wrote:
No doubt someone can show mathematically that under certain circumstances the
victim will not be damaged.
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Depends what you mean by "safe" and "damaged".

That doesn't alter the fact that the answer to the question is "no"
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Strikes me that if one is stupid enough to try the
experiment, one is already so "damaged" that a little added
lead will make no difference. ;>)

Mark L. Fergerson
 
ChrisGibboGibson wrote:

No doubt someone can show mathematically that under certain circumstances the
victim will not be damaged.

That doesn't alter the fact that the answer to the question is "no"
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Why? It's unliklely to damage the gun at all.

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On 19 Nov 2004 11:01:57 GMT, chrisgibbogibson@aol.com
(ChrisGibboGibson) wrote:

No doubt someone can show mathematically that under certain circumstances the
victim will not be damaged.

That doesn't alter the fact that the answer to the question is "no"

:)

Gibbo
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This is a problem to do with setting the boundaries of an experiment.
If you limit the experiment to the person with the gun, then you are
right. But the situation and its effects are clearly wider. Taking the
bigger picture, the rest of the world - and hence the majority of
people - is far safer after the shot has been fired than before.

So the answer to the question is, in fact, "yes".

d
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com
 
We'll never know until the FDA or NIH does a controlled, double-blind trial.
 
On 19 Nov 2004 11:01:57 GMT, chrisgibbogibson@aol.com
(ChrisGibboGibson) wrote:

No doubt someone can show mathematically that under certain circumstances the
victim will not be damaged.
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"Someone" already has. Brilliant cosmologist, Max Tegmark claims you
can shoot yourself in the head, 10 times in succession and survive
with only your nerves in pieces!
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.
 
ChrisGibboGibson wrote:
No doubt someone can show mathematically that under certain circumstances the
victim will not be damaged.

That doesn't alter the fact that the answer to the question is "no"

:)

Gibbo
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Ask Fearless Fosdick. "A mere scratch!"

--
Beware of those who suffer from delusions of adequacy!

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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