FTFA: Salvatore Miglino, 39, caught the attack on his iPhone, though it's unclear if it was an iPhone 3GS (the first with video recording capability), iPhone 4, or iPhone 4S.

F*ck you, Michael Santos of TechBuzz. If this is an attempt at humor or satire, you have failed. If that's really your first question when hearing this story, you're a twatwaffle.

A man managed to video tape his mother-in-law shooting him on his iPhone...

Video tape?

Gig103: FTFA: Salvatore Miglino, 39, caught the attack on his iPhone, though it's unclear if it was an iPhone 3GS (the first with video recording capability), iPhone 4, or iPhone 4S.

F*ck you, Michael Santos of TechBuzz. If this is an attempt at humor or satire, you have failed. If that's really your first question when hearing this story, you're a twatwaffle.

a billion times this.

Grables'Daughter: A man managed to video tape his mother-in-law shooting him on his iPhone...

Video tape?

that too.

Miglino took two bullets, one in the rib cage and one in the shoulder. Despite those wounds, he managed to wrestle the gun away from Hepner

A .22 to the shoulder is hardly life threatening. I've not had such injuries but there a teenager on the mainpage two years ago who got shot by a .22 stray and the bullet actually only sunk halfway in and he didn't notice till he hit the showers after the run.

RoyBatty: Grables'Daughter: Video tape?

Video recorded seems too long. That extra syllable. Bleh?

Video taped becomes Video memmed?

Movie people say "shot" but that might be confusing in this context.

The best gem in the whole story:

Lesson learned: with the proliferation of cell phones, not just smartphones, folks ought to make sure their mobile device, whatever it is, has video recording capability. Aside from catching some citizen journalism footage, you might just send a criminal to prison.

And that part right there is why cops hate them, because it can do just that when they are the ones breaking the very laws they are paid to uphold...

I would had named it "My Phone". People say that a lot.

untaken_name: RoyBatty: Grables'Daughter: Video tape?

Video recorded seems too long. That extra syllable. Bleh?

Video taped becomes Video memmed?

Why not just say 'videoed'?

Or just "recorded"? Perfectly cromulent, accurate and short. Keeps idiots from heading to Walgreens looking for iPhone tape cassettes.

zabbers: doglover: Miglino took two bullets, one in the rib cage and one in the shoulder. Despite those wounds, he managed to wrestle the gun away from Hepner

A .22 to the shoulder is hardly life threatening. I've not had such injuries but there a teenager on the mainpage two years ago who got shot by a .22 stray and the bullet actually only sunk halfway in and he didn't notice till he hit the showers after the run.

internet tough guy alert!

come over here and let me shoot you with a .22. "oops, hit an artery, lol lol lol." a stray .22 would imply that it traveled far before it hit the recipient, i.e., it slowed dramatically.

True. Also I believe it hit him in the trapezius muscle because it didn't even go the full way in and he thought "farkin' bees." instead of "Hmm, that's a new hole." Honestly a .22 round has very little stopping power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_power and no professional fighters use one.

It's probably a lot like a rapier and the broad sword. A broad sword, like the English kind favored by George Silver, could take a hand off at the wrist. Fight's over. You both get patched up, probably live, maybe even the amputee fights again. But ofter the combatants were able to go a few passes and no one was hurt bad and they called it a day. Sometimes, like with Lincoln's famous duel, they didn't even get used. (That was sabres but still.)

The rapier the Italians favored was thin and pokey. You could hit organs and veins and sometimes even arteries. But when you punch thought someone's liver, they ain't survivin' but they ain't dead yet. The danse macabre starts as they proceed to use the last minutes of their life trying to take you to hell with them on a wave of adrenaline. That's why George Silver was so down on them as unsavory, inelegant weapons. Like in Shakespeare "Tis not as wide as a church door, but twill serve."

A .22 is like that. It can pop through and hit the spine or something, but chances are it won't take them down instantly. You can kill someone later that day, but it probably won't bring stop a full grown man at close range until the shock sets in. Not the best choice for defense. A shotgun on the other hand, that's gonna put anyone down, even guys in a vest. So usually you don't even have to shoot it. Just the presence of the "cha-chink" noise of a shell chambering is enough to send any sane person into a butt leakin' fearful state, even if it's one of your buddies holding the thing. A 12 gauge is the broadsword of guns.

buckler: Or just "recorded"? Perfectly cromulent, accurate and short.

It's three syllables. All movie makers say "shot" since forever because it's much shorter and when you say it 10,000 times the syllables matter.

zabbers: internet tough guy alert!

come over here and let me shoot you with a .22. "oops, hit an artery, lol lol lol." a stray .22 would imply that it traveled far before it hit the recipient, i.e., it slowed dramatically.

To be fair, this is the internet, where a criminal can brush off anything below 25mm like it's a mild inconvenience, which is why you better train in ancient super-secret martial arts, or else carry a 40mm grenade launcher, preferably a Mk 19.

Irving Maimway: They're you kids man, what are you going to do? You just keep plugging away and hope for the best.

And if that's not enough:

Ho con me lo stampo per farne degli altri!

untaken_name: doglover: Honestly a .22 round has very little stopping power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_power and no professional fighters use one.

Well, except:

The Israeli military used a suppressed .22 LR rifle in the 1990s for riot control and to "eliminate disturbing dogs prior to operations", though it is now used less often as it has been shown to be more lethal than previously suspected.[12] Some other examples include the use of suppressed High Standard HDM pistols by the American OSS, which was the predecessor organization of the CIA.[9] Francis Gary Powers was issued a suppressed High Standard for the flight in which he was shot down. Suppressed Ruger MK II pistols were used by the US Navy SEALs in the 1990s.[13]

Most people will leave you alone, and with some intelligent planning you can avoid most situations where they would not. Out of those who might try and victimize you, most will leave you alone if it is clear you're armed. Out of those who will keep bothering you, most will stop if you fire a round (blank or not). The flash and report will be enough to change their mind.

Only in a tiny minority of cases, which most people are unlikely to actually encounter, would the size of the cartridge matter.

If people who worried so much about the .0001% of the time it would matter that they had a .45 vs. vs. a .22 vs. a starter pistol cared that much about safety when it came to things like fire-prevention or driving, the world would be a much safer, better place.