From my perspective, you are being rude, with your immense ignorance about firearms and wounds generally, and not being appreciative that I am deciding to apparently waste hours of my time doing a lot of research and analysis that you likely are not capable of, in an effort to explain the answers to the questions and concerns you are asking.

I didn't ask you to do that. Be upset with yourself.

I do not care about your experience. You don't see me listing mine, because it isn't relevant. You writing all that out added nothing to the discussion. You can be right with no experience and wrong with all the experience in the world. I never pretended to know it all. In fact, I explicitly said I don't. I asked a question. You can be civil. I believe in you.

If your only criticism of this theory is that I cannot be 100% certain of it, then congratulations, I guess you don't believe in any empirically based theory of any kind.

You posed it as a statement of fact. You also said you weren't taking people's word for it, and then said something like this, which was totally wrong. I've watched enough people die in warzones to know wounds can gush from entry and exit wounds. That doesn't mean anything.

Also, it matters a lot, actually, whether or not the neck gushing wound is an entry or exit wound, because that massivelt alters a forensic reconstruction of the trajectory of the fired round, and thus the position of the shooter.

It doesn't matter to the fact it's gushing. Of course it matters for where the shooter shot from. In what world do you feel the need to stretch my words to mean that? It's the most basic statement anyone has ever made. "If the bullet came from this direction, the shooter must have been in the same direction." Obviously. Why are you trying to hard to make it sound like I said something I didn't say?

Yes, I know its a rough comparison, I'm trying to baby you through this because you have apparently never seen for yourself what kind of exit wound a 30.06 produces on a deer.

So you use a totally unrelated situation? Yeah, I haven't seen it on a deer. I've seen plenty of rounds hit people. A shot in the neck, which is pure muscle, is significantly different than a shot to the skull, which is basically a balloon with a hard casing. Hopefully that's babied down enough for you.

Congrats, it doesn't, you can thank me for explaining why later, or never, your choice.

Thanks for putting in the effort. Maybe leave out the insults next time. I didn't make you do it. Also, maybe don't misportray stuff that isn't true, and also stop thinking you're the smartest person in the world. All you did was Google some stuff. I could have done it too, but I didn't want to spend my time on it. Clearly you didn't either, so you shouldn't have if it made you so uncomfortable. I guess you did it to sound smart, but that information is available to anyone so all it proved is you can use a search engine.