Wow! To say the least. Thank you all for your input especially the Medical side. Permanent damage to hearing, if was done by accident or in defense of your loved ones is a fact we will have to accept. We know that and are willing to do so.
My question was based on the common knowledge that guns do make noise and bigger cal guns make more noise, and as such, had anyone had any accident or intended self defense situation in which a gun was used? And my reason for that is twofold:
First, when the movie Dirty Harry and his very famous high powered handgun was displayed, every guy I knew that shot wanted one. When we "want" we justify and in time own it. However, story's came around about discharging in the home is self defense, and statements went out that first; even it you hit the perp, chances are you will also get the next door neighbors kid in bed. Second everyone in the general neighborhood would be deaf.
I didn't know how much of this was / is true and how much was / is hype.
The second reason is that I have heard that after an altercation with a perp, even many police officers had difficulty determining how many shots were fired, as a form of tunnel vision and mindset came into play and you become so very focused, your hearing shuts off, your mind goes into protect mode and boom, its all over. The officer felt at that time the whole process went like ten minutes and the fact was it was only 30 seconds!
Does our mind focus so tightly on the problem at hand to such a degree that we see and hear nothing except pop, pop, pop and its over.
My question was based on the common knowledge that guns do make noise and bigger cal guns make more noise, and as such, had anyone had any accident or intended self defense situation in which a gun was used? And my reason for that is twofold:
First, when the movie Dirty Harry and his very famous high powered handgun was displayed, every guy I knew that shot wanted one. When we "want" we justify and in time own it. However, story's came around about discharging in the home is self defense, and statements went out that first; even it you hit the perp, chances are you will also get the next door neighbors kid in bed. Second everyone in the general neighborhood would be deaf.
I didn't know how much of this was / is true and how much was / is hype.
The second reason is that I have heard that after an altercation with a perp, even many police officers had difficulty determining how many shots were fired, as a form of tunnel vision and mindset came into play and you become so very focused, your hearing shuts off, your mind goes into protect mode and boom, its all over. The officer felt at that time the whole process went like ten minutes and the fact was it was only 30 seconds!
Does our mind focus so tightly on the problem at hand to such a degree that we see and hear nothing except pop, pop, pop and its over.