When you are stabbed by a knife or shot, say, by a 9 mm Luger handgun, of this you can be sure: it will hurt like hell. And if either the blade or the bullet hits your heart, there is a substantially higher likelihood you will die, especially if the bullet is an expanding hollow point or the knife looks like something Crocodile Dundee would wield. Put it this way: If you get hit by a 9 mm, no matter where it strikes, you have just been handed the intended message via Express Delivery.