Why do some gun shot victims still have bullets in them and others do not?

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If the risk of removing the bullet from the patient out weigh the benefit, they will leave it in.

ie: next to the spine, spinal cord.

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because if it is consider to be life threatening in the area in which it is located, no can do on taking it out, the tissue around it will eventually build scar tissue and it will stay there until they die and it is removed post mortem, if they take it out, it is non life threaten, but once again if they choose to have left it, that is there decision

sometimes it causes more damage to take a bullet out than to leave it where it is lodged. when it is safe, and won't cause more damage, the doctors take the bullet out

I guess it depends on the caliber.. some bullets get lodged inside the victims body and some bullets are through and through..

some cant afford to get em puld out

Depends on where the bullet is lodged. Sometimes it causes more dammage to remove it than not. The Bullet will work its way out of the body through time, just like a splinter.

Lots of factors. The caliber of bullet, powder charge, distance and angle of attack. Some bullets tumble when they hit resistance and some do not. Some hit bone and lodge or tumble around in the body and some go on through.

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Why do some gun shot victims still have bullets in them and others do not?

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