MacPherson has included an outline of the contents of his book's chapters in the introduction, as well as providing an excellent summary at the end of each chapter. He exposes and corrects common fallacies -- such as the presumption that kinetic energy determines bullet effect. In that section we find:
Newton's laws of motion describe forces and momentum transfer, not energy relationships Damage is done by stress (force), not energy. Stresses cause damage only if they strain body tissues above their elastic limits. Most expanding handgun bullets simply waste the kinetic energy used in producing the small temporary cavities they cause. Included is an excellent clarification of statistics for the layman. It explains how the seemingly plausible collection of data from shootings is immensely compounded by the large number of variables; that any claim that incapacitation from bullet hits can be assessed within a few percent based on shooting data "is based on ignorance, or fraud, or both." This easy to understand primer on statistics should enable the layman to avoid being misled by data that is "too good to be true."
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