A few weeks ago, I saw a video on YouTube of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at the early stages of her recovery from one of those awful bullets.

I have convinced myself it is the strongest weapon humankind possesses, way more powerful than the trail of power games, bomb craters and bullet holes in our collective memories.

While these bullets can be pushed off course at long range, they are so powerful at close range that not even Lucy can stop them.

Forensic evidence showed that an imprint of a bullet in the warehouse door was of a different calibre to the police weapons.

Overall, the programme enabled the collection and destruction of 340,378 small arms and light weapons and 1,165 tons of ammunition and of another 49.6 million items such as cartridges (bullets).

Among the single regulator countries, Singapore and the Scandinavians were successful in dodging most of the fatal bullets, while the UK evidently was not.

A century ago, the German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich introduced the concept of magic bullets compounds engineered to target and kill tumor cells or disease causing organisms without affecting normal cells.

Indeed, the parallels between cancerous cells and invasive species suggest that the principles for successful cancer therapy might be found not in the magic bullets of microbiology but in the evolutionary dynamics of applied ecology.

The officers who conducted an in situ investigation hours after the incident found only one bullet of a different calibre to the police weapons, while recovering 14 cartridges and tow bullets from the latter.

So influential have medicine s triumphs over bacteria been that the war on cancer continues to be driven by the assumption that magic bullets will one day be found for tumor cells if the search is sufficiently clever and diligent.

The high number of shots discharged in the direction of all three suspects (rather than at the shooter) suggests the officers were shooting with intent to kill or reckless disregard of such a consequence.

I actually realized once in Kosovo, when I watched a man break down, that bullets are actually hardened tears, that when we don't allow men to have their girl self and have their vulnerability, and have their compassion, and have their hearts, that they become hardened and hurtful and violent.