Anyone else remember this from Terminator 2 ??

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I didn't hear that he shot 600+ people.

I guess the question is what percentage of hits will be mortal hits when you are not firing in a precision manner - deliberately going for a kill shot.

I have experience with the M16 in the U.S. Air Force - which is a very similar weapon to what was used here. I could definitely hit a specific individual at the same range if I wanted to. A killing shot is another matter though. I could do it but that would take more careful aim and require more time. If my goal is to amass as high a body count as possible, I'm probably going to fire into the densest mass of people I can see and hope for the best.

Sorry about my coldly clinical response here. I'm just trying to answer Vorlon's question without regard for emotion.

So what percentage of the area of the human body hit with an AR15 round will result in a kill - when medical help is nearby? Is 10% too small a number? I don't know.

I will say that I have often read accounts of serial murders and have thought that if I had those weapons available in that situation, I would have killed a lot more people. I think it's more likely that we overestimate how easy it is to score a killing shot.

Again, I want to emphasize that I'm being deliberately clinical here to answer a question as honestly as I can. I do not intend to trivialize the act of mass murder.