Orlando SWAT Officer Took a Bullet to the Helmet During Pulse Raid

This is the picture that needs to be out there. Not the pictures of the shooter that's being spread around. He doesn't deserve any publicity.Honestly, if we want this shit to end, the photos released should be of all the blood and bodies. This is what helped in the civil rights era, when Emmett Till's mother requested an open casket so that people could see what racism was doing to the sons (and daughters) of our country.Look at how much attention they get for doing something bad for 5 minutes...by comparison how much good you need to do to make the news is astonishing...you could dedicate a career to saving lives all day, and still never make the news. So if you're insane, and don't care about people's lives...what's the easier option?

You can be all over the news instantly. They do in other countries... I think it's kind of like in previous times throughout history... The reign of terror for instance, people got their heads chopped off in public, and so most of France pledge allegiance to the French Republic. Though public execution is a bad thing, I'm just giving that as an example to what the possible out come of the bullet ridden body might do.That's a huge fear of mine, breaking ribs off the sternum, or something, but everyone tells me in the event you're so jacked you don't think about it.As someone who does it for a living I can tell you that when it happens, you will be thinking about it. You just have to put it out of your mind until you're done doing compressions.

Was taught the same thing. Except my teacher advised that we don't even attempt CPR if we were traveling in the US (from Canada) due to the fact we might get sued for breaking their ribs. I told her that she should give her head a good shake.Random question since I'm not a gun person, doesn't the AR-15 shoot a smaller round than a handgun? So it wouldn't be as impressive as the helmet taking a bullet from a handgun, let alone a weapon like an AK. Regardless, I've seen military report helmets taking bullets from sniper rounds (like this guy, SFW), which in most cases I'd assume would have higher stopping power - so they're still very impressive. The short answer is it has to do with speed, yes a .45 cal bullet is big, weighty and impressive however the charge behind it is small compared to the grain count in an 5.56 or .223 that the AR fires. Imagine being hit with a softball thrown by a middle schooler, now imagine being hit with a baseball thrown by a major league pitcher. Little hurt worse right? But the ball is smaller.. yea but the baseball is being thrown at 80mph, the soft ball is being thrown at 15mph.

When talking about penetrative ability the biggest concern is velocity of the projectile.The size of a bullet mostly determines how much damage it does on entry. Actual penetration is more due to speed, and thus the amount of propellant stored in the round. The AR15 does shoot 5.56 mm, which are smaller in diameter, but which contain much more propellant(and thus fly faster and go through things easier). Most combat helmets are only rated for shrapnel and up to maybe a 9mm handgun bullet. That doesn't mean that they can't stop more, they can and they do, but there is no guarantee it will stop a rifle bullet.Edit: So you guys are all pretty much right. I'm using stop in the context of your head not exploding. More than likely it will only deflect a rifle bullet, if anything at all.And semi-auto black scary looking rifles shoot the same ammo as fully auto assault rifles, in this case either .223 or 5.56 NATO rounds. Still impressive that his helmet stopped the bullet.That's my line of thinking also, it most likely lost a lot of energy somewhere in between leaving the muzzle and impact. Still could have been plenty lethal without the helmet, though.