Jim Watson
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I am not too sure about the "sterile bullet" theory, but the target's clothes and skin certainly aren't. See references to Napoleonic wars officers putting on a clean silk shirt before battle. It gave them the best chance against wound fever.
Until antibiotics were well distributed after WWII, any penetrating wound would be life threatening. That is why the "mouseguns" were viable crime deterrents. Their "stopping power" was psychological, you did not want to be shot with anything. You might crush the idiot who popped you with a peashooter and then expire of peritonitis a few days later.
Until antibiotics were well distributed after WWII, any penetrating wound would be life threatening. That is why the "mouseguns" were viable crime deterrents. Their "stopping power" was psychological, you did not want to be shot with anything. You might crush the idiot who popped you with a peashooter and then expire of peritonitis a few days later.