11 Common Movie Tropes That Would Actually Ruin Your Life

6. Using A Table For Cover In A Gunfight

Here is a list of things that are likely to stop a bullet: six inches of concrete, four sandbags, eighteen inches of water or twenty-four inches of earth.

Here is a list of things that are unlikely to stop a bullet: A flimsy wooden table, a police badge, a mailbox, a car door or another human body.

Granted, flipping a table will conceal your exact position from the shooter, that is, until they blow enough holes in it to see you. Even if it withstands a couple of smaller calibre rounds, anything other than a thick layer of sandbags is going to disintegrate if you empty a clip into it (yes, including a body, nasty).