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“This indicates that he was high on something like Chrystal Meth, anyone not stoned would have stopped cold after taking even a wounding round.”

Dear Lord God, how can you possibly believe that? The mind simply boggles.

Guns are not magic wands. You don’t wave them at someone and say the magic word “BANG” and expect the fight to end.

Death due to gunshot wound is usually the result of exsanguination or air embolism, with pneumothorax/hemothorax being common as well. All of which can take a good long while to incapacitate someone. There’s enough oxygenated blood in the brain to potentially allow conscious action for several seconds even after something as severe as decapitation.

So, barring an incredibly lucky hit on key portions of the central nervous system (which is a hell of a lot smaller target than most people realize), even a LETHAL gunshot wound is likely going to leave an alert, conscious, mobile person with sufficient ability to continue action for many seconds, and often many minutes. Blood loss and air entry take a good while to end a fight.

In the middle of a fight, with adrenalin flowing, it’s not unheard of for someone who has been shot to not even notice a gunshot that causes purely soft tissue damage. Even something that hits a good chunk of bone can go unnoticed until a person realizes that a limb isn’t working right. I’ve listened to one fellow describe how he first became conscious of the fact that he’d had a finger shot off by the realization that it was suddenly much more difficult to properly grip his firearm and return fire.

You don’t need drugs to keep fighting, most people do it because they’re in the middle of a fight and the only way to end the fight is to keep fighting — that and the fact that gunshots are not magic fight-stoppers.

To the best of my recollection, every shooting I’ve had personal experience with involved multiple shots and a good length of time between the first hit and the end of the fight. I’ve yet to see someone just DRT (dead right there), most often there’s some running or fighting going on for a while. Seen a fellow with a nice lethal center-mass shot, and a wound right through the neck, that still managed to beat the crap out of the guy shooting him. Hell, even suicides can often require multiple shots. And no, drugs weren’t a player in those events I mentioned.

The fight doesn’t end just because you’ve been shot. The fight keeps going until someone leaks enough to lose consciousness or chickens out. If you’re in arm’s reach, chances are you’re going to be beat and/or stabbed while the shooting is going on. That’s how this works.

As for drugs... seriously, you don’t even know the first thing about that topic either.