Polish Prosector Shoots-Self (video) Re-examined

[TheGoldenState]

The last thread on this was closed down, but I have been given the ok by Bud to re-open with the question that I posed in the comments, rather than the initial post.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/world/2012/01/11/clancy-poland-prosecutor-shot.cnn

Col Mikolaj Przybyl was defending a military investigation into media leaks related to the air crash that killed the Polish president in 2010.

He asked reporters to leave so that he could take "a break".

Upon hearing a loud thud, the reporters returned to find him on the floor with a pool of blood around his head

He lived, having shot himself through the cheek. He has spoken and says he was too "hasty" and that he was trying to shoot himself in the head.

He said he was tired of being harassed by the gangs be was prosecuting.

He was being accused of spying on reporters who were reporting on the crash.

The Question

Seeing as though the gun shot inflicted what doesn't seem to be much more than a flesh wound, what is it that immediately rendered him unconscious?

Concussion from the blast? Shock?

He drops immediately as you can hear and see (his foot by the desk), but why, if the injuries as shown in the virtual diagram show, that is was a clean cheek through and through?
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[cloud8a]

Maybe it was one of those deals similar to limping when you smash your finger. In this case much more severe where you shoot yourself in the face and your brain expects a shot to the head and you fall. I can see that being a possibility.

 

[TheGoldenState]

So shock to the system turned the lights out is your wager?

 

[Bud Helms]

TGS, I just don't get it here.

The Question

Seeing as though the gun shot inflicted what doesn't seem to be much more than a flesh wound, what is it that immediately rendered him unconscious?

A shot from a pistol with the muzzle pointed in the vicinity of the head, assumed inches away, and you wonder why he was rendered unconcious? It is that state between dead and alive that occurs as a result of shock: impact shock, concussion shock, acoustic shock, you name it.

This is not firearms related. The firearm is the cause of the injury, but the topic discussion is not firearms. This could as easily be about a grenade tossed through the window. It is about his injury and his physical (physiological?) reaction to the array of shock impulses he experienced from the report and impact of the round.

We gave it a chance. Please, let's move on.

Closed.