Actually lots of people survive gun shots now a days. Look at the shootings in Columbus vs number that are fatal. Just like a knife wound and how big a knife... it still depends on where you are wounded, amount of damage and time before treatment / first aid begins. “From 1993 through 2000, … 22,661 children [aged 14 and younger ] were treated in hospital emergency rooms in the United States for nonfatal injuries caused by a firearm. … During that same period, 5,542 children died of gunshot wounds.”