True on both counts.
On the other hand, I dated a girl in high school whose brother was shot in the forehead with a .22LR. He thought it was a bee sting initially. He has (as far as I know) minor brain damage but is otherwise normal.
I grew up on a farm in the 1950s. Daddy had a .22 bolt action rifle ( a Remington 513 scoremaster). I can still remember him killing hogs when it got cold.
He would shoot them in the forehead with a .22 short. They would drop like they had been hit by lightning.
When I lived in Western Kansas I knew a guy who ran a small meat packing plant. He used a Marlin model 60 to kill the cows. He said it never failed. Of course he was at point blank range.
Some things cannot be accounted for, do you know the story of Phineas Gage? He had a steel rod driven through his head and survived to die years later. Nine hundred and ninety times out of a thousand a .22 long rifle in the forehead will kill a man. My father used to shoot huge hogs in the forehead with a .22 short which is far less powerful than the LR and I never saw one fail to drop in its tracks. Once I watched as he shot a thousand pound steer the same way with a short and it dropped straight down. One little box of fifty rounds of .22 short that fits in a shirt pocket would kill enough meat to load a semi truck. He actually refused to use a long rifle cartridge, claiming it was too powerful for the job. On the other hand it is amazing how sometimes a person can survive an attack that seems impossible to survive. I knew a man forty years ago who showed me the row of scars across his belly where he was hit with a machine gun blast in Vietnam. The way he described it is that he was almost cut in two. He was on full military disability but unless you had seen his belly you would think he had never been hurt in his life. I saw him do things that most men who had never been hurt could not do.
“He has (as far as I know) minor brain damage but is otherwise normal.”
He’s a Democrat?