Question: what are your chances of surviving a gunshot?
Answer: Vincent J.M. DiMaio, former chief medical examiner in Bexar County, Texas, and author of Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, suggests you have about an 80 to 95 percent chance of survival (95 percent chance if you get to the hospital with your heart still beating).