Angel Alvarez in ICU after taking two dozen Gold Dots.
8 days later he walked unassisted to his courtroom hearing.
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Eight days after he survived 23 bullet wounds for a new city record, Angel Alvarez walked up the sidewalk behind the courthouse with barely a limp.
He did have his right arm in a sling and there were bandages on his left forearm, as well as both legs, and there was some kind of surgical material on both feet.
But even in the black plastic clogs that replaced his bloodied shoes, he was having no trouble keeping pace with the three detectives escorting him from the black unmarked car parked at the corner.
Procedure would have mandated him being handcuffed behind his back. That was complicated by the sling, so the detectives had improvised by snapping one bracelet on his left wrist and the other to the waistband of his black shorts.
If he was in pain, there was no sign of it in his face or eyes. He also gave no indication that he felt fantastically fortunate to be alive. He walked as impassively as a guy out for a stroll in the noon hour.
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I wasn't advocating that they go back to .45LC or that is was a magic man stopper. Just that it has the brawn to be effective. One thing I do know is that they won't be adopting a lead bullet or dum dum either. It will be round nosed for reliability, fully jacketed or even a PC greenie compliant non-lead iteration and fully Geneva compliant. And I think it will be a heavy lift to deviate from NATO too, but we are the most influential member so who knows? If they do change calibers it will likely be back to .45ACP, but it also won't surprise me if they adopt .40SW just as a ton of police departments and agencies are abandoning it. It wouldn't be the first bonehead move they did.