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Lessons learned:
1. It takes a lot of paper to stop a some
bullets.
2. Were the stories of Bibles stopping bullets
true? I believe they are indeed true, but
may be misleading. We do not know how fast
the pieces of shrapnel were going when they
were stopped by the Bibles. Maybe the bullets
that hit the Bibles had already hit the
ground or some other object and were significantly
slowed down by the time they hit the Bibles.
One thing for sure, unless the troops were
carrying an original copy of the Gutenberg
Bible strapped to their chests, only a miracle
of God would have prevented a rifle bullet
at full speed from penetrating.
3. Would a backpack full of books stop a
bullet? Yes, if the bullets were pistol
rounds. It would take about 7 inches of
paper to stop a 9mm round.
If we are talking about big rifle rounds,
you had better have around 20 inches of
books in the backpack to be relatively safe.
4. I have been shooting into piles of telephone
books and Sears catalogs all my life. I've
made a lot of confetti, and learned a few
things.
But it's still fun to shoot books.  |
