Penetrating trauma and tissue damage from projectiles are a bit different. They have the potential to cut through arteries and large veins without alerting the body’s muscles to problems. With bullets, it all comes down to shot placement and passage—which, without the gift of surgical precision that no gunman will ever have, is another way of saying it comes down to luck. Aiming for limbs to create “flesh wounds” is a movie myth, and generally not something that police or soldiers ever train to do.
Furthermore, even multiple gunshots to the torso won’t guarantee death, or even incapacitation. Arun Nair is an attending physician in the ER at Johns Hopkins, and an International Health Fellow. “Bullets are magic,” Nair tells his students. He recounts the story of a young man in Lebanon who survived after being shot six times.1 He took repeated shots to the chest and throat. One of the six bullets stopped inside his pericardium, the narrow space between the heart and its thin protective membrane. Another bullet ended up in the victim’s esophagus; he swallowed it. Amazingly, the patient was alert and speaking lucidly to the doctors. You can't assume anything, says Nair. Bullets can bounce, ricochet, and change vector under the skin.
In the video of Kyle, you can clearly see he was still running for the first shot, then he turned around ("Fuck You" heard) and popped up to 4 towards the guy, then ran around the car as 3 more shots went off. You can see his head still moving (as in, he was running) while the 3 shots were going off.
Watch the video full screen at half speed, it's pretty clear. 4 shots go off in 1 second, and human reaction time is around 1/4 second. You also have to take into account audio delay of a few hundred milliseconds from that much distance.
No matter what, the first shot was in self defense, so therefore the subsequent shots were also in self defense, because the sequence of shots were already set in motion at that point.
Depends really on how/where they hit:
Here's a graphic example for you:
https://youtu.be/KT0KcenH_eQ
In the video of Kyle, you can clearly see he was still running for the first shot, then he turned around ("Fuck You" heard) and popped up to 4 towards the guy, then ran around the car as 3 more shots went off. You can see his head still moving (as in, he was running) while the 3 shots were going off.
Watch the video full screen at half speed, it's pretty clear. 4 shots go off in 1 second, and human reaction time is around 1/4 second. You also have to take into account audio delay of a few hundred milliseconds from that much distance.
No matter what, the first shot was in self defense, so therefore the subsequent shots were also in self defense, because the sequence of shots were already set in motion at that point.