<< Andrew Vachss wrote in Pulse magazine several years
ago:
"That's why the Emergency Rooms of big cities are full
of sociopathic
little trigger boys with unique facial damage -- from
shell casings
ejected into their eyes when they held their precious
nines parallel to
the ground, Hollywood style, instead of the way the
pistols were
designed. Movies didn't give them the desire to commit
homicide . . .
but they sure showed them 'how.'"
*********** The most common way to get hit by a shell casing
is when you're standing beside somebody when they shoot in a
normal manner. SWAT teams stagger an advance to account for
it. Holding the gun sideways is going to eject them towards
the ground or up into the air, and either way the shell is
less likely to go into someone's eye.
Personally, I think the "full Emergency Room" story is urban
legend in the making, right up there with gerbil
extraction.
miker
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