Ersatz
Your sternum is a solid piece of bone, and is in fact strong enough to stop a .38 caliber bullet or other low-velocity round. Most people get hit in the ribs and the bullet goes right between the ribs and that's how they die, but if your friend shoots you right in the sternum, it'll hurt like a hornet sting but you'll live. Maaaaaybe knock the wind out of you, that's the worst that'll happen.

This is totally true, my buddy's brother, who's an ER doctor, has seen cases of people shot right in the sternum and still alive. One of these guys should show the other ones he's not a pussy and get shot in the sternum -- right dead nuts in the sternum, he should probably pull the trigger himself -- to show them he'll live.

Menudo con queso
Fake or not, this and some photos of white phosphorous wounds kept me from getting to sleep last night. Thanks Internet, here are your stars for being Evil.

IrishWhiskey
I doubt its fake, but if so, so what? When this sort of shit happens all too often, does it really matter?

simon666
I submitted this, then watched it again and thought it was fake, and negative voted it in the hopper. I thought it fake because there is no gun recoil or mussel blast, however, that could be lost frames from encoding. I don't know. The first viewing is good.

simon666
Ok, totally fake. No recoil, mussel blast, and when the friend punches the vest wearer, he breaks the presumed blood capsule yada yada

TeenerTot
mussel blast? I didn't see any oysters in there.

RomancingTrain
Exactly, that's why it's fake.

simon666
muzzle blast, sorry dick-licker.

Konversekid
I'm quite sure there is a recoil, though it is hard to notice because it happens a couple of seconds before the gun shot sounds, and it only seems to be for a bout a frame.

Ursa_minor
muscle blasts

Architeuthis Tux
Not fake.

His left pec turns rosy over the course of the video, but the skin around the hole stays white. Just like if you were to hit your thumb with a hammer, the area of the hit would stay pale while all around it would turn red. The impact squishes all the blood out of the area of the wound. The blood is not coming from the skin, like it would with a cut. It's welling up from subcutaneous tissue. Possibly a vein.

There is about a 50/50 chance that his 5th or 6th rib deflected or stopped the slug. That rib will be, however, quite broken.

If it hit too close to the edge of the rib, the rib will be broken, and, if its energy wasn't too depleted by going through the kevlar, it will have pierced the pectoral muscle and the intercostal muscle and made a cozy little home in the middle lobe of his left lung. If that's the case he won't be taking too many more drags off that cigarette before the little hole starts bubbling.

No, I definitely do not think that's fake. What it is, however, is 5 stars worth of natural selection.

Charles
...Not to mention the fact that since we live in reality and not Hollywood action movie world, most guns' muzzle flashes are not visible in daylight.

Randroid
Clean Coal.

manfred
Military intelligence

James Woods
Jumbo shrimp?

ProfessorChaos
Rap Music

sosage
They do, unfortunately...it's mine.

heyitslozeau
yeah, we should ban cars too.

and having children.

Raoul Duke 138
Yes, we all know that THE MAJORITY (51%) OF THE 150,000,000 GUN OWNERS IN THE US "only end up hurting themselves or their families or their friends."

It is a KNOWN FACT that there are 76 million gun accidents EVERY YEAR. These are facts. Known facts that kingarthur knows for a fact.

spittle

kingarthur
OK, just to clarify as I feel some of you may have missed the sarcasm laid out like a banquet before you: the rednecks would be performing said population control...ON THEMSELVES.

Raoul Duke 138
I know. I just like to internet fight with you.

lolcoolj
Super Troopers.