So in movies there will often be a situation where two people

>>87442207
>Americans

>>87442207
well getting shot isn't going to stop them from shooting back, thats why it's a standoff. Either nobody wins or they talk it out.

>pa pa pa pa pong
They always freezes abruptly on the fifth beat.

Basically you blame John Woo and Jackie Chan for bringing this cliche into Hollywood

>>87442207
Shoot the hand. At such close range, why do they never do this?

Having a gun pointed at you is a special experience, I can only imagine what a standoff like this must feel like.

>>87442691
because that would be retarded and probably not work.

>>87442753
I dunno, most of the people that get into these situations are probly like 90% ptsd tolerant by that point.

>>87442691
at that range why don't they bend the mechanics, start a fire or something, burn BOTH guns down

>>87442691
What if they shoot at the same time and their bullits collide? Who wins then?

>>87442299
If you get shot in the head you'll be dead before you hear the noise
Either of them could kill the other if they wanted, especially since they're both ready to pull the trigger in an instant. No one has the reaction speed to respond in the milliseconds it takes to put a miniscule amount of pressure on the trigger

>>87442885
Nah, getting shot in the head isn't even a guaranteed stop. Even if they're 100% guaranteed to die there's no guarantee they won't seizure to fuck out and pull that trigger anyway.

>>87442885
Ever read about the scientist that was going to get his head cut off then when he did he made it a point to blink severely times? We'll never know because nobody is going to kill themselves for science, people kill themselves for beliefs all the time because they're retarded but never science.

>>87442885
I was always under the impression is was motor reflexes, that if you shot someone they would clench their hand because of relexes anyway so you get shot too.

>>87442870
Obviously the bullets collide, ricochet then bounce off the walls and kill someone.

>>87443191
Now this is something I heard about on Discovery. So it's probably bullshit.
But doesn't snipers aim to hit the brainstem so that the deady doesn't move or sound at all?

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>>87443288
That is gibberish but yes generally if you destroy the brain stem or manage to cut their spinal cord they can't react at all. Not something you can easily manage to do with a (one handed) pistol shot from the front.

Still, seizures are possible.

>>87443288
>But doesn't snipers aim to hit the brainstem so that the deady doesn't move or sound at all?
idk but I did see a irl hostage stand off documentary thing once and to make it short kidnapper had to keep lowering weapon because heavy, so swat (or euro swat) shot him in brainstem once he lowered weapon. For the same reason, so he doesn't have the ability to fire shots off and hurt hostages.

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>>87443054
If you get decapitated your blood pressure in the head drops to nothing and you faint instantly.

>>87443310
A scientist from when science was considered Satanism or whatever got his head cut off and blinked several times after. Is that a better description?

>>87443467
https://www.damninteresting.com/lucid-decapitation/

And?

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>>87442753
It doesn't really happen, because in real life when both people are pointing guns at each other they both just start shooting immediately

>>87443054
Getting the head cut off is different because the brain remains intact and you have at least a couple seconds before all your blood pours out
If you brain stem is destroyed it's an instant off-switch

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>>87443054
isnt the question about a gunfight and not a guillotine?

>>87443288
Police snipers are trained to do that, yes. Military, probably not.

It's because shots like this look really cool on-screen. Real life logic doesn't apply.

>>87443054
play a record!

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>>87443684
How do you know? You ever been shot in the head before?

MGS3 did it well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4eH76nwEg&t=245

>>87442753
Not so bad

>>87443616
This blog post just says that it might be possible to stay lucid but that no one knows. And the only evidence it gives are a bunch of ancient anecdotes.
>>Many argue that a beheaded person will almost instantly lose consciousness due to a massive drop in blood pressure in the brain, and/or the heavy impact of the decapitation device. But there are countless eyewitness reports in history describing a few moments of apparent awareness in the victim.
>Proceeds to list a bunch of anecdotal evidence from ancient history
>>Can it be concluded that a separated head is capable of consciousness and awareness following the event? Not with any certainty.
Head like a fucking orange

>>87443727

All snipers train to hit the head. If they hit anywhere else they're no longer going to walk half a kilometre to confirm the kill, if a guys head explodes he's down for the count no matter what.

Infantry go for centre mass as it's the bigger target in a close up, whoever is quickest wins, scenario.

>>87442207
is common between male mammals to display agressiveness without the intention to actually kill each other.

is an evolutionary thing: real violence is reserved for prey, interspecies violence should be keep at minimum: it only serves to assert dominance.

>>87443622
Who would've guessed that the guy on the left would end up in the x-men movies.