That's how all bullets work.
>That’s how all bullets work.
Not exactly.
There’s degrees of trauma, and locations where you can get immediate incapacitation. Head shots, spine shots, and breaking key bones can immediately incapacitate someone. The .22lr cannot reliably break bones. Very often it will glance off bones. A headshot with a .22lr will very often glance off the skull. Ribs can also deflect the round. If you shoot someone with a .45, it will not be stopped by bone and will penetrate deep.
I’ve talked to EMTs on this subject and while they say the .22lr can be extremely deadly, it doesn’t do it in a timely fashion. Hence my comment about bleeding out. In a self defense situation the target needs to be put down pronto. If he happens to die later after he hurts you, it isn’t terribly important.