Talk:Vampire/@comment-50.136.203.99-20140521151320/@comment-50.156.175.196-20140608015632

In Bree Tanner, she said bullets bounce off them like flies, and called police pistols "useless pop-guns". Several details and feats in the series indicate that vampire skin is impenetrable as far as humans are concerned. They are durable enough to jump from atmospheric heights, or collide with another hard vampire body (each moving over a hundred miles an hour) and be completely unharmed. This is interesting too: also in Bree Tanner, Diego tries to disprove the vampire myth that a stake through the heart would kill them. He rips a sharp wooden root from above their cave and slams it against his chest with a force "that would split a granite slab in two". His chest is completely unharmed. But she is right. If a vampire didn't want to be punched or stabbed or shot, however ineffectual it would be, they wouldn't be. They can move in the smallest fractions of a second, and their minds work ridiculously fast.