Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:25:21 -0800, David Friedman
<ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In article <7e8nr3l55r47727mksf7coot4o3dc971uv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> mike weber <fairportfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> And the .22 round used for assassination is rather more powerful, to
>> say the least, than a .25; a .22 short isn't much for killing people
>> either.
>
>I don't know about the particular round used for assassination, but it 
>looks from a little googling as though a .32 ACP has about 130 ft pounds 
>of energy, a .22 LR from a rifle barrel about 140 ft pounds, so if both 
>are used in pistols I would think the .32 would have at least comparable 
>energy.

Maybe.  I think i said that it was "not much more powerful thanb a
..22"; neither is much of a manstopper.

I once personally knew a young man who was shot in the head with a .22
Saturday night special; when he arrived at the hospital, the doctor
was rather upset to see the apparent exit wound almost diametrically
opposite the entry; it turned out that the bullet had not had
sufficient energy to penetrate the bone and had travelled under ths
skin to wher it emerged.

Weiss's gun was apparently found under his body, jammed, with five of
a maximum load of seven still in it.

I found this while looking for more info:

"Louisiana historian Mike Wayne states the following: 'There are
basically three accepted versions of what happened. Version one is
that Dr. Weiss shot Huey twice and the bodyguards killed Weiss... The
second version is that Weiss did something-either slapped Long or
argued with him or pulled a gun... and the bodyguards started firing
and accidentally hit Long in the confusion. The third possibility is
that he was assassinated by one or more bodyguards planted by
anti-Long forces, and Weiss was a convenient scapegoat...We do know
that two bullets of two different caliber were removed from Long's
body, and neither was the same caliber as Weiss's gun.'"

I don't know if i believe that myself, sinceother sources say there
was no autopsy...