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(A bit about weapons too obviously but I can't put two flairs at a time)

So there's a scene where a hunting rifle is pointed 2 meters away from two other people, one being held hostage with a 0.4 centimeter thick, 1.05 meter long machete to their neck, and the third person here the wielder of the machete, the bullet is shot at the blade's flat side (angled, probably) and I require a ricochet that causes something from the bullet (or the whole thing) to rebound back to the shooting character. How would this go out? What are the consequences for the characters in question?

I can't specifically say the kind of rifle being used but the caliber is .23 to .25 if that helps; I'm doing separate research for a hunting rifle suitable for my character that owns it. Guns are banned from where I'm from, sorry!

Please ask for clarifications if you need aside from the nature of the gun and thank you for responding!

When you walk past someone, you’re called a passerby.

When you wait by the bus stop or the station, you’re called a commuter.

When you get on the bus or the train, you’re called a passenger.

When you cross the road, you’re called a pedestrian.

When you enter the clinic, you’re called a patient.

When you head into the office for consultation, you’re called a client. And——

When you finally speak your mind, about every time you doubted yourself,

every time you disappeared because of it, every missed opportunity,

you’re called the wasted child you knew all along that you were. You spend another hour there.

When you return home, you call yourself tired, in need of sleep; it’s evening now and dinner’s due.

When you stop yourself from opening the fridge for leftovers, you call yourself stupid,

for everything you said, for everything they know about you now,

everything you wish you should’ve told them. But you’d see the doctor again soon. To follow-up. And you skip another meal.

When you strip in the bathroom, you stare at yourself in the porcelain tiled walls,

then stare down your body, at everything you should’ve been. You call yourself wasted again.

You think about the walls, the boundaries closing in on you, and you call yourself to a break.

When the break, you realise, is getting too long, you call yourself lazy and unmotivated.

When you look left and right, it’s all just walls. You call yourself lonely. As you speak your mind,

it’s like there’s someone right next to you to take the blow. But no one’s there.

And the words bounce around and slap you back in the face. You should’ve been social.

Every waking day there’s a label for your box. And when there’s too many:

You peel them off, but you want to continue the feeling of remorse, for not acting upon them.

You paste them on a card and put it in. You get called forgetful, after all.

But everyday, you’re praying you can stand up and speak your mind more.

You pray you’ll have the courage to throw the bad labels away. You dream of everything you’d be.

When you lay in bed, you close your eyes, and you’ll be more than just a passerby,

a commuter, a passenger, a pedestrian, a patient, a client.

Doubtful, invisible, late.

Tired, hungry, stubborn, stupid, raw. Wasted, wasted, wasted.

Jaded, lazy, unmotivated, lonely, self-deprecating, asocial, labelling, critical, forgetful.

And you’ll be someone who could speak their mind.

This poem is the unedited version of a local poetry competition submission; I used this as part of my entry but tweaked the wording a bit. Hope y'all like it

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