Yeh, I was just trying to demostrate to the poster who implied a .22 round wasn't deadly that it will get the job done at close range.
If the perp has his hands on your throat, you are close enough to put a round in his eye. Sounds brutal, but we're talking self-defense here, and self-defense means doing whatever is necessary to save your life, or the life of a loved one.
I've actually studied martial arts for several years. It does take a certain kind of person to inflict certain wounds on another person. For instance, in the same scenario, without a weapon, and nowhere to back-up to, the perp would get an open-hand jab to the throat himself if I couldn't break his grip in about one try. In fact, a "strangle hold" is a very poor assault on someone if the person being attacked has even minimal self-defense training. Unless the victim is pinned against a wall or the ground, its virtualy useless and opens the attacker up to a variety of blows.
I am well aware of its use as an assassins weapon. The problem with a .22 though, is that if it doesn't hit one of those "instantly lethal" areas, it is just a nuiscance to most. Sure the person may bleed to death later, but in the mean-time they are not likely to be debilitated in the least (though a certain percentage of people are indeed dropped by any round that hits them anywhere).